Originally Posted by
3Cforme
Your remarks about routing through Detroit and Atlanta are uninformed, however. DL has about 2500 flights a day that neither end nor start in DTW or ATL.
True, but not very ideal for most in the Atlantic except if flying truly out west. I've seen ORD-MSP-PHL routing just use to use 25k points which Delta often leaves as the only way to redeem points at the lowest level rather than a more suitable ORD-DTW-PHL. That ensures the pax wastes an entire day flying something that should be 2 hrs.
They make even redeeming points into LGA one of it's east coast hubs very difficult as well. Because LGA is a business market and it doesn't want to have seats I suppose for leisure travel.
Frontier isn't going to please everyone with it's FF reward program the same way Delta can't please everyone with it's FF rewards program.