ITA (
http://matrix.itasoftware.com/) shows several $380 trips on Delta (7-night stay) for MKE-TUS in March. Best deal is only $3 less on United.
If you are flexible, you can save. The more you constrain yourself -- by airline, date, time or even by insisting on a specific flight -- the more you are likely to pay.
Delta no longer prices way low months ahead, and they no longer engage in automatic cutthroat price-matching. They haven't done either for a number of years.
I felt the same way several years ago when NW/DL started pricing MSP-STL around $600 & MSP-CHI (which required a several-hour drive for us as well) around $400. We still managed to make most of our trips every 2-3 weeks for around $240 -- just have to plan ahead & be creative.
Originally Posted by
babsjvd
so I have been watching a travel date for early March. Granted it is to Tucson. But it is still October! The fare has been jumping all over the place- Friday it was, $438 9- am one stop-and would have grabbed it but am waiting for PTO confirmation. yesterday the flight itself is gone. With a new flight added, that is at 7 am one stop. That fare was around $520. Today it is $672.REALLY DELTA? What changed in the Delta world overnight that caused the flight to jump so high? The games that are played..
sorry for the rant but REALLY?
Babs