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Old Feb 15, 2015 | 4:23 pm
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Originally Posted by AKABrownBear
I started a new project around the PHL area and am trying to continue to fly Delta as I prefer them over all other domestic airlines. One issue I've run into is the Thursday evening return flights to DTW (where I'm based out of) are priced incredibly high on my travel site (I'm looking 3-4 weeks out from today as I did expect immediate flights to be expensive).

I went onto Delta's site and found out why - they're only selling M fares on the route. At first I figured that this was just cause the flight was close to sold out but after looking at the seat map only 9-10 seats, at most, were marked as occupied...

Is this normal? Should I wait until a different date when more fare classes will open up? Just seems like I am missing something and apologies in advance if it is something simple.

If anyone wants to look at specific route for reference, I'm looking at the flight that leaves at 5:25 pm Thursday March 12th from PHL to DTW.
Ouch. Since I used to make that trip fairly often, your post made me curious. I found Q fares in March and April, but for $763 RT in coach. In contrast, you can buy FC from JFK-MSP-DEN RT for $538.

I guess DL is enjoying their quasi-monopoly on the PHL-DTW route.

I have seen similarly outrageous fares for connections through DTW, contrasted with connections through ATL.
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