Originally Posted by
Killer51883
half the flying done out of CVG for CHQ is stuff like that. we do a bunch of dayton turns toledo cmh louisville. all of them are drive able with in a few hours at the most. supposedly the flights are so much cheaper out of dayton and cmh that people in cvg will book flights from dayton through cvg to where ever and then just show up at cvg and skip the first and last leg of the trips.
While your theory is correct, your execution is wrong. If you were to book DAY-CVG-HDN or HDN-CVG-DAY and show up/end your trip in CVG, you'd be re-charged as if you booked through CVG. Delta doesn't like farejumpers and reutinely penalizes for doing that. If the passenger were to fly the entire trip as booked, then they wouldn't get charged extra.
On the CVG short flight side, I'm not sure which is fast. CVG-DAY (both landing north) or CVG-LEX (both landing south). I've flown both but CVG-DAY was a south operation, so it actually took almost 20 mins. My personal record is CVG-LEX in 14 mins.