Originally Posted by jwhite4
I would have hoped that when Delta was able to fly RJ's into Key West (vs TurboProps before, and still on other carriers), they would have been able to find a way to do it to lower the cost of flying there. Haven't seen it, prices seem as high as every. (PHL-EYW is typically $400+, whereas PHL-FLL I was able to get on DL 10 days ago for $128 R/T).
Mostly this is because of market forces. Their are overall a lot fewer seats into EYW than FLL and enough people are apparently willing to pay a premium to fly there.