Delta Feels a Road Warrior's Pain in Charming Ad About the Most Grueling of Trips

Comfort where you'd least expect it

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Traveling constantly for work can suck, and Delta wants you to know it understands.

A new ad from Wieden + Kennedy New York tackles that familiar trope, as a drone of a man trudges through relatable little first-world indignities—the electronic keycard to his hotel room not working, getting lost going for a run in foreign streets, ironing a tie he's still wearing (but wait … isn't that how everybody does it at home, too?).

The whole spot hangs on the pensive singsong 1970 recording "Love You" by pop group The Free Design (also, how Suzanne Vega's 1987 classic "Tom's Diner" might sound if it were a nursery rhyme).

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