Curling Team on Delta Flight Denied Upgrade

The U.S. curling team's gold medal was not good enough for them to get an upgrade on their Delta Airlines flight from South Korea back to the United States after the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, according to Yahoo Sports.

The history-making curling team stunned three-time Olympic gold medalist Canada twice, and then beat No. 1-ranked Sweden for the country's first Olympic gold in the sport, according to SB Nation and NBC Sports.

John Shuster, Tyler George, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner, and Joe Polo made up the squad that brought home gold medals.

That prompted the curling team to use its Twitter account to ask Delta for an upgrade on the newly crowned world curling champions, Yahoo Sports reported.

@Delta our Olympic #curling champions are flying home on Monday. Upgrades?!? 😃 #GoldMedalists @CoachPhill @TeamShuster

— USA Curling (@usacurl) February 24, 2018

While congratulating the team, Delta said on Twitter that it could not fulfill the request.

Hi, there. Congratulations, gold medal champions! We are honored to be your ride back home! While we don't have any upgrades to offer, we look forward to seeing you on board. Thanks for flying with us! *AJL

— Delta (@Delta) February 24, 2018

USA Curling appeared to be good sports about it.

Thank you for the well wishes and checking into it. I’m sure it’ll be a smooth ride home. @Delta @TeamShuster

— USA Curling (@usacurl) February 25, 2018

Some on social media, though, wanted the airline to make it happen.

Make it happen @Delta!! You're the best airline ever!!

— Catherine Illuzzi (@Cilluzzi1590) February 24, 2018

Curlers need some love too you know😁 #curling #golden

— Siouxperhero (@Siouxperhero) February 24, 2018

wow @Delta You can do better

— bee kay (@beekaytulsa) February 24, 2018

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