Originally Posted by
bcj1949
Special event with paid F (within reason) in October from MSP to LGA by the host. DL RT 1850.00!!!!!! and UA 1260.00. Both high but about $600 less to fly through ORD. For coach to regular meetings also same story. Through ORD/DFW or DEN better deal on UA or AA. Non stop great but also UG's as DM running about 50% and that's with a AX DL Reserve Card (go figure). So bottom line as the year is half over and thinking hard about where to qualify for high elite out of MSP as DM on DL has been disappointing to say the least.
Originally Posted by
BusTrav8yrs
UG on that Route are tough because they are flying crappy A320's. In fact I am on a LGA-MSP flt right now on an A fare because I had the same UG rate as you as a DM last year.
If there's that many DM's, then I can understand why DL would just keep jacking up the requirements, to become the 1st-of-4 tier levels. As a consumer, it stinks. Yet as a realist, I can see why DL does this. And if DL is charging more for direct/non-stop, and leaving with full planes, more power to them.
I dropped off someone at the airport this morning, and parked off-site rather then in short-term (
less cash, and shorter walk from the shuttle-area then short-term parking). If the airport operator were to raise the parking rates for short-term parking by $1/day until there were a few empty spots, that would really be setting the market rates. And I don't park in short-term any longer, also because it's gotten so expensive.
Yet it also works the other way... airport (
not off-site) outer-lot parking was always empty, as the airport wanted too much, and offered terrible shuttle service. The airport was forced to
lower prices, and
improve service, and the lot started filling back up again.