Originally Posted by
Dad to Rei
I can't imagine there is really a need to be full. It's an interesting thing, I genuinely don't get the financial incentive for them to do this, it's not like I am seeing them charge extra for the bus-routes, in fact they seem to be changing less. I have been repetitively seeing lower fares out of PHL for award tickets when utilizing one of the bus routes. I am in northern Delaware so ACY or Lancaster were a bit far afield for me to consider, but I will for sure start looking at this now.
Particularly I was seeing one-ways to Vegas at substantially reduced prices on miles out of the bus routes than just the non-stop out of PHL. 30K vs 100K , 16K vs 50K kind of differential if i recall correctly (Been a few weeks since i have searched)
Same boat as you: live 20 min from ILG and 40 from PHL. I've seen lots of non-flagship transcon redemptions out of ACY/LNS/MDT for 16k miles but it's just not worth the extra hassle of going 90 minutes in the opposite direction, though ILG makes a lot more sense. If only AA added some commercial flights to ILG...