Originally Posted by
Ryno1234
I fly out of CVG every week on DL. In my opinion, DL has maintained their flight level at a minimum or even increased it. The passenger level is back above pre covid. There are still some DL directs that I wish they would bring back(DFW, BWI, SFO, PHL, AUS) but they options are still good enough for me. DAY has REALLY reduced their DL presence. Only ATL and LGA(1x day)
DL has brought back CVG-AUS. I do with they'd bring back some of the daytime flights back from the West Coast (LAX & LAS). These flights are redeyes right now (and really early departures out of CVG). SEA-CVG is currently a daytime flight and CVG-SEA is a late evening departure.
Agree that the DL service at DAY is pretty sparse and hasn't seen much recovery. About the only form of recovery is we've gone back up to being all CR9s to ATL to being all or mostly mainline again to ATL. But it seems like long gone are the days of a 2-3x a day to DTW plus 1-2x a day to MSP plus 5-6x daily to ATL, including the occasional 757 to ATL. And the flight times are rough too. On some days the only arrival into DAY after the lunch window via ATL is the midnight arrival. Going out of DAY, the first flight out is 6:00 AM then one around noon and then now a 2:30 PM flight. No early evening departure at least on this week's schedule. I often find myself driving to CMH or CVG for way better schedules and options.