<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by richard:
I have a meeting there next week. It is costly to fly nonstop due to Delta's fortress hub.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!</font>
We used to have to regularly fly that route to visit P&G. If you're flying into cincinati on a very regular basis, there is a solution -- buy an air pass with Delta or United. In exchange for parking a bunch of $$ in an account, you pay on a per-air-mile basis on every route served. Several benefits -- you automatically get to use all of that airline's lounges. You can also book one "guest" at the same rate. We even figured out how to later delete the named air pass holder and just send the guest so anyone in the office could use it. We'd also compare fares against number of miles to figure out when it was best used. There is a time limit on it (a year, I think)and it's a significant amount of $$ ($5 ~ 10K?) but we also got milage credit (I think -- not sure on that one). Even better, you got bumped up to first above anyone else if there were seats available.