Originally Posted by
RichMSN
Yesterday I had to book a flight MSN-XXX-CLE for a Tuesday-Wednesday turnaround. First run-through: $705. My goodness.
So, I decided to try MKE. Even worse. All connections via DTW or CVG.
Throwing my hands in the air (I'm not spending $700+ dollars if I can help it), I headed to Expedia. And there's a DL itinerary MKE-ATL-CLE-ATL-MKE for $387 all-in.
OK, so I went back to DL.bomb and selected multi-city and booked the exact same itinerary listing 4 specific flights and chose the same flights as the Expedia itinerary. $387 all-in. Bought it.
Miserable, miserable website and booking engine. I wonder how many people would've accepted $700 as the best fare and bought the ticket. I really miss NWA.com and its price/schedule option, which always worked great for me.
Hey you're lucky that you got the same iteneary on delta.dumb for the same price. For me earlier this week the exact same iteneary (same dates, same flights - six total), etc. was coming out as a K fare and $700+ on Delta.dumb. It was $200 less as ~$500 on expedia.com as a U fare. Exactly the same, all six flights (and of course dates) identical. On Delta exactly the same pieced together would still come out to more at a twice to thrice higher fare class mix.
Lesson learned: never book on delta.dumb
Booking on Expedia still it's charged by Delta direct, so still get AmEx bonus miles, and I
think still can cancel online at delta.com w/in 24 hours (as it was charged by Delta and not Expedia, so really just the front end used to book was different; and from Orbitz I know can cancel w/in 24 hours, no matter who charges always). So really no reason to ever book on delta.dumb.