Ooompa Loompa

I didn't have anything planned over Martin Luther King weekend, had a $230 ecert to use, and I have that Monday off, so I decided to see what I could come up with for a MR. This combines a PHX-MCI fare basis with a COS-MCI fare basis. It will take a total of 3 days to complete. I will get a hotel in MCI, which is fine with me because I will go out and have some KC BBQ and a few beers. The second night I will be on a redeye from PHX to ATL so no hotel needed. With my cert the whole flight cost less than $100 out of pocket and will net me ~8300 miles. Here is my itinerary:

Colorado Springs (COS) to Kansas City (MCI) - Sat, Jan 19
Colorado Springs (COS) to Atlanta (ATL) - Sat, Jan 19
Delta 1040 Dep: 6:20AM Arr: 11:12AM 2h 52m Boeing 737 Economy (T)
Layover in ATL 2h 16m

Atlanta (ATL) to Kansas City (MCI) - Sat, Jan 19
Delta 1250 Dep: 1:28PM Arr: 2:44PM 2h 16m MD-90 Economy (T)



Kansas City (MCI) to Phoenix (PHX) - Sun, Jan 20
Kansas City (MCI) to Atlanta (ATL) - Sun, Jan 20
Delta 1577 Dep: 6:35AM Arr: 9:44AM 2h 9m MD-90 Economy (U)
Layover in ATL 3h 57m

Atlanta (ATL) to Phoenix (PHX) - Sun, Jan 20
Delta 1056 Dep: 1:41PM Arr: 4:00PM 4h 19m Boeing 757 Economy (U)



Phoenix (PHX) to Kansas City (MCI) - Mon, Jan 21
Phoenix (PHX) to Atlanta (ATL) - Mon, Jan 21
Delta 1646 Dep: 12:55AM Arr: 6:16AM 3h 21m Boeing 757 Economy (U)
Layover in ATL 1h 54m

Atlanta (ATL) to Kansas City (MCI) - Mon, Jan 21
Delta 1272 Dep: 8:10AM Arr: 9:32AM 2h 22m MD-90 Economy (U)



Kansas City (MCI) to Colorado Springs (COS) - Mon, Jan 21
Kansas City (MCI) to Atlanta (ATL) - Mon, Jan 21
Delta 2075 Dep: 12:39PM Arr: 3:35PM 1h 56m MD-80 Economy (T)
Layover in ATL 3h 2m

Atlanta (ATL) to Colorado Springs (COS) - Mon, Jan 21
Delta 2117 Dep: 6:37PM Arr: 8:05PM 3h 28m Boeing 737 Economy (T)


Cost per passenger (including taxes & fees) $323.70
Total cost for 1 passenger $323.70

Rumproof

That's an excellent itinerary. Thanks op.

JimmyJoe

How in the world did you find this? What site(s) did you use?

tigers2007

I'm trying to piece this together with LAS as I'll be trying to escape the CES show next week. These bookings are legit Mr. JimmyJoe. On a side note, and not to hijack this thread, but I see that LAS-MSP-AUS(tin, TX) is $212 ai with DL (4.53cpm and 4686MQM). Would be nice to incorporate AUS into the op's itinerary.

Ooompa Loompa

I used a combination of ITA Matrix and Google flights to find it. Once I discovered the 2 different fare basis with good cpm on both I just played around and forced routing through ATL multiple times to get the lowest cpm possible for this routing. I had a difficult time trying to book it, but ended up getting it done by booking 2 individual multi city segments on DL.com So I booked COS-ATL-MCI-ATL-PHX as one multi segment itinerary for ~$158 and PHX-ATL-MCI-ATL-COS as a second multi segment itinerary for $~164.