Originally Posted by
tw1mempho
In the last 4 years we have been flying either KAL and Delta from Memphis to Atlanta and KAL to Incheon to Cebu ...or we fly Untied from Memphis to Chicago (O'Hara) and Asiana Air to Incheon to Cebu...
Now we are seeing Delta and United and American airlines flying from their hubs to Tokyo and then PAL into the Philippines... and they are lowing their ticket prices and seen to be forcing KAL and Asiana Air ticket prices upward...
Delta is partner with KAL and United is partner with Asiana Air...
Has anyone notice this new entry by Delta and United and their effect on this market ?
thanks..
Our travel Agent, just inform us that our return trip from Philippines to Chicago at the end of October has been changed. It looks like Asiana Airlines has change their schedule out of Chicago from noon each day to midnight each day. Which means when flying back from Incheon, they leave at 7 pm instead of 11 am... all connections are missed ... with 11 hour connection delays at both Incheon and Chicago ... bummer
Asiana always used to fly out of Chicago at noon. which gave us 4 hours between connections from Memphis to Chicago, and 4 hours between connections from Incheon to Cebu Philippines. They would arrive from Chicago to Incheon S Korea at 3 pm and fly out of Incheon at 7 pm and get to Cebu at midnight.
Now beginning in October, we are being told that they will leave Chicago at midnight and arrive at Incheon at 6 in the morning layover from 6 am to 7 pm... before leaving to fly into Cebu Philippines.
Returning Asiana leaves Cebu at midnight and arrive at Incheon at 6 am...and instead of leaving at 11 am, we now leave at 7 pm to go to Chicago (another 11 hour layover) that additional 8 hours delay makes us miss our connection in Chicago, and we could not fly out of Chicago until the next day ....
Asiana flight out of Chicago to Incheon at noon was always full. I do not think they wanted to make this change on their own...
Once again, I believe they are being forced out of the Market by Delta, United and American Airlines....
Makes its almost impossible to keep flying Asiana Airlines from Memphis to Cebu Philippines....bummer...
(sorry if hard to read, just really upset right now..)