It's not easy being a Delta right now.
If you're a little girl named Delta your name is plastered all over the media as the delta variant of COVID-19 continues to create problems. This little girl's mother put her frustration into a tweet:
"Petition not to call it 'Delta Plus' and instead move on to the next letter in this cursed variant alphabet,"Kellie Gerardi tweeted."Sincerely, the mother of a very sweet little Delta who once thought the airline would be the most annoying namesake joke."
Mom is a scientist for Virgin Galactic headed to space soon who named her daughter in "reference to spacecraft flight dynamics" —looped in Delta Air Lines in the social media post,mentioning that the two should "form an alliance in this matter."
Not expecting a reply, mom was rather startled when a package arrived.
"We sent her a care package that included a handwritten note, Delta backpack, Biscoff cookies, and a model plane," Andrea Feminella, a Delta audience engagement manager,said in a blog post."Basically, everything we could find at the Delta Flight Museum gift shop with the name 'Delta' on it!"
"We saw your tweet and just wanted to let you know that we think your daughter's name is amazing," part of the note read. "It's the name for people who were meant to fly."
This week, Delta received her gift from the airline. Gerardi posted the update on Twitter complete with photos of the adorable girl and her new swag, mentioning that the 3-year-old has just learned to read and write her name.
A Delta spokesperson commented: through it all, we hope our new 3-year-old friend, Delta, remembers the wisdom of Shakespeare’s Juliet: “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”