Airports Where Delta is the ONLY operating carrier
Apr 30, 2007, 1:18 am
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How are the fares from DL captive airports?
Apr 30, 2007, 1:23 am
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I would imagine that many of the essential air service airports have reasonable fares as they are highly subsidized.
I don't think WYS is an essential air service airport, but fares to and from WYS can be 100% cheaper than BZN which has 6 airlines and is only 80 miles away.
I don't think WYS is an essential air service airport, but fares to and from WYS can be 100% cheaper than BZN which has 6 airlines and is only 80 miles away.
If I get a client in FPO, I'll check
Apr 30, 2007, 7:02 am
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Apr 30, 2007, 7:15 am
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I have limited experience, but I'll give mine.
When looking into flights from TPA to MCN (Macon, GA), they were a bit higher than flights into ATL, but not much. And not nearly as high as flights from TPA to AVL, where DL has some competition.
When looking into late-June flights from SLE-MSY, I found that flights were roughly the same as most carriers flights from PDX-MSY, around $400.
My guess is that it probably has a lot to do with nearby competition. Both MCN and SLE are close to big airports with lots of carriers (ATL and PDX respectively).
I'll be comparing fares for TPA-SLE to fares for TPA-PDX a couple of times a year in the future. SLE is significantly closer to my parent's house, and only a few minutes from my grandmother's house. But PDX is only a few minutes from my brother's house. So I won't have a whole lot of incentive to choose SLE. The biggest problem right now is that the only SLC-TPA flight on the schedule is at 10:15 AM, which works fine for the 6:15 out of SLE, but we NEVER want to catch a flight that early when leaving Oregon. So until DL re-opens another SLC-TPA flight, I doubt we'll be flying out of SLE. Plus it's hard to justify flying on a CRJ out of SLE when I can get on mainline service PDX-ATL.
-Michael
When looking into flights from TPA to MCN (Macon, GA), they were a bit higher than flights into ATL, but not much. And not nearly as high as flights from TPA to AVL, where DL has some competition.
When looking into late-June flights from SLE-MSY, I found that flights were roughly the same as most carriers flights from PDX-MSY, around $400.
My guess is that it probably has a lot to do with nearby competition. Both MCN and SLE are close to big airports with lots of carriers (ATL and PDX respectively).
I'll be comparing fares for TPA-SLE to fares for TPA-PDX a couple of times a year in the future. SLE is significantly closer to my parent's house, and only a few minutes from my grandmother's house. But PDX is only a few minutes from my brother's house. So I won't have a whole lot of incentive to choose SLE. The biggest problem right now is that the only SLC-TPA flight on the schedule is at 10:15 AM, which works fine for the 6:15 out of SLE, but we NEVER want to catch a flight that early when leaving Oregon. So until DL re-opens another SLC-TPA flight, I doubt we'll be flying out of SLE. Plus it's hard to justify flying on a CRJ out of SLE when I can get on mainline service PDX-ATL.
-Michael
Apr 30, 2007, 10:18 am
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I believe DL is the only carrier at ATL, am I correct?
Apr 30, 2007, 1:23 pm
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12 AirTran flights a day? That's a big jump in capacity.
Anyways, here are cities where DL is the only airline:
Massena, NY (Big Sky to Watertown)
Ogdensburg, NY (Big Sky to Watertown)
Watertown, NY (Big Sky to ALB, BOS)
Trenton, NJ (Comair to ATL, BOS)
Southern Pines, NC (ASA to ATL)
Brunswick, GA (ASA to ATL)
Valdosta, GA (ASA/ATL)
Albany, GA (ASA/ATL)
Macon, GA (ASA/ATL)
Columbus, GA (ASA/ATL)
Dothan, AL (ASA/ATL)
Marathon, FL (ASA/ATL)
Anyways, here are cities where DL is the only airline:
Massena, NY (Big Sky to Watertown)
Ogdensburg, NY (Big Sky to Watertown)
Watertown, NY (Big Sky to ALB, BOS)
Trenton, NJ (Comair to ATL, BOS)
Southern Pines, NC (ASA to ATL)
Brunswick, GA (ASA to ATL)
Valdosta, GA (ASA/ATL)
Albany, GA (ASA/ATL)
Macon, GA (ASA/ATL)
Columbus, GA (ASA/ATL)
Dothan, AL (ASA/ATL)
Marathon, FL (ASA/ATL)
Apr 30, 2007, 1:27 pm
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Apr 30, 2007, 3:46 pm
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For those of you who live in the Cincinnati area you'll appreciate that. It's worse than ATL.
Ed.
For those of you who live in the Cincinnati area you'll appreciate that. It's worse than ATL.
Ed.
Apr 30, 2007, 4:05 pm
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Well, I've flown into "one horse" airports TTN and ILG in the past month... 
Anyways, here are cities where DL is the only airline:
Massena, NY (Big Sky to Watertown)
Ogdensburg, NY (Big Sky to Watertown)
Watertown, NY (Big Sky to ALB, BOS)
Trenton, NJ (Comair to ATL, BOS)
Southern Pines, NC (ASA to ATL)
Brunswick, GA (ASA to ATL)
Valdosta, GA (ASA/ATL)
Albany, GA (ASA/ATL)
Macon, GA (ASA/ATL)
Columbus, GA (ASA/ATL)
Dothan, AL (ASA/ATL)
Marathon, FL (ASA/ATL)
Massena, NY (Big Sky to Watertown)
Ogdensburg, NY (Big Sky to Watertown)
Watertown, NY (Big Sky to ALB, BOS)
Trenton, NJ (Comair to ATL, BOS)
Southern Pines, NC (ASA to ATL)
Brunswick, GA (ASA to ATL)
Valdosta, GA (ASA/ATL)
Albany, GA (ASA/ATL)
Macon, GA (ASA/ATL)
Columbus, GA (ASA/ATL)
Dothan, AL (ASA/ATL)
Marathon, FL (ASA/ATL)
Apr 30, 2007, 4:16 pm
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Almost forgot....TWF is also the sole DL carrier(operated by SkyWest)...I flew through there late last year....(so make that 3 on the list I've flown into! 
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Apr 30, 2007, 6:31 pm
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Fares from MLB usually are higher than at MCO as T fares to markets I fly (BTR, MOB, MSY, NYC, SEA AND LON) generally don't have T fares.
However the difference is often only $30-40 so I'll save the gas/time and fly from MLB
However the difference is often only $30-40 so I'll save the gas/time and fly from MLB
Jan 3, 2009, 4:28 pm
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Bump...
Trying to find some expensive DL Biz fares to the carribean and/or Hawaii to use up some TYP's.
Hopefully some biz fares out of DL-only airports are in the $4,200-$4,500 range!
Thanks for your input,
Bostonbali
Trying to find some expensive DL Biz fares to the carribean and/or Hawaii to use up some TYP's.
Hopefully some biz fares out of DL-only airports are in the $4,200-$4,500 range!
Thanks for your input,
Bostonbali