Deadhead especially was better under NWA. Not sure if it's just 9E that's gotten screwed up, but under NWA, you get a PNR, you go online, you check in, print your boarding pass and you're done. Under Delta, you can't check in on-line, by the time you get your PNR there are no seats left and you can't print out your boarding pass. Getting it at a kiosk is hit or miss (granted this could be the "excellent" crew schedulers we've got inputing the information. I can't remember how many times they've misspelled my last name, and it's right in front of them), and the instructions our company gave us to check in at the kiosk are wrong. Which pretty much leaves us going to the gate agent for everything. 90% of the time they are NOT happy to see us, especially when they're oversold and we don't have seats. Times I was on "standby" under NWA: zero. Times under Delta: 4 times this month.