<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by seat 50J:
Just visit nwa.com and look up trips on the weekends that you are free. Sometimes, Las Vegas, Orlando, or Fort Lauderdale are cheap. Also see where Southwest flies from Louisville and check the NW fare on that route. For example, I think WN flies SDF-STL and STL-MCI (Kansas City). So check NW SDF to MCI.
SDF has cheap fares compared to many cities like Albany and Rochester, NY and Jackson, MS or Montgomery, AL.</font>
Thanks - I checked many of the markets where WN competes and it looks like I could grab SDF-BWI for about $100 ~ (2000 miles) + BWI-SNA for about $200 ~ (6000 miles via EWR). Perhaps more with unique routing.
I'm going to hunt around and look for other such schedules which could maximize mileage. I think I can get the best bang by using WN competition markets, making a cheap $100 r/t out east first and then a $200~ r/t from the east coast to the west via EWR.
SDF does have some of the cheapest fares in the nation because of WN (especially when they pull their mega fare sales and others match).
My big limitation with a mileage run or two is just time. I need to depart Saturday (or Fri night) and get back by Sunday night at the latest. I think doing an NW schedule to a 1 connection east coast city and then nesting a CO r/t via EWR to the west coast would be a good strategy.
Perhaps a N/S hub hopping stategy on an east-west routing might score extra if I can find a valid routing (i.e. a (BWI)-MSP-IAH-(SNA) leg would be a N/S while going E-W).
Best,
SDF_Traveler
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