Pay Delta and be done with it. If you go the other route, in the middle of the travel mess (when it occurs), you'll wish you had just ponied up the cash. An unhappy and frustrated bride is not a good place to be!
Landed at Gatlinburg (KGKT) yesterday, and took this picture. Looks like it was out of control on runway, guessing on landing, not sure.
Article here: https://www.wvlt.tv/2022/09/17/plane-crashes-gatlinburg-pigeon-forge-airport/
I think the FAA's most likely resolution to this problem would be to eliminate the choice of N numbers. They would assign your N number. Be careful what you wish for!
So about 8,000 total 3 digit N numbers. Assuming those are the ones that are profitable, I wonder how many are currently taken by aircraft, and how many are reserved by the resellers?
Has anyone done the math on the total available N numbers? I thought we had a bunch of math major engineering types in this forum. I'm talking to you @Half Fast !