Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
09-29-2010 | 07:58 AM
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09-29-2010 | 08:16 AM
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Beer/Tsquare,
This post is in no way meant to prove you guys wrong, but only to show how Southwest Airlines marketing puts a "spin" on their fares.
As you'll see from their site, they're offering specific one-way fares now at $49-$109. (A vagrant can't even get a Greyhound ticket for that price.) The catch, and this is where their marketing department has done a great job of convincing the general public that they're the cheapest, is by offering a minimal amount of these fares, possibly only one $49 one-way fare from each base.
Southwest Airlines | Book Flights, Airline Tickets, Airfare (Site included for reference purposes, in no way intended to promote the competition.)
As you both have stated too, they're not always the cheapest, but "public perception" is over half the battle.
Fly safe,
GJ
This post is in no way meant to prove you guys wrong, but only to show how Southwest Airlines marketing puts a "spin" on their fares.
As you'll see from their site, they're offering specific one-way fares now at $49-$109. (A vagrant can't even get a Greyhound ticket for that price.) The catch, and this is where their marketing department has done a great job of convincing the general public that they're the cheapest, is by offering a minimal amount of these fares, possibly only one $49 one-way fare from each base.
Southwest Airlines | Book Flights, Airline Tickets, Airfare (Site included for reference purposes, in no way intended to promote the competition.)
As you both have stated too, they're not always the cheapest, but "public perception" is over half the battle.
Fly safe,
GJ
But I guess that since our load factors are running north of 80% that there is a big segment of the public that actually DOES shop ticket prices beyond the SWA website. I was looking up a flight today from MCO to PHL.. and SWA is TWICE as much as DAL. Bad thing is that you have to stop in ATL.. but I find it interesting that people will make 3 or 4 stops to go across country on SWA to save $20...
"DING.. you are now free to waste your time"
09-29-2010 | 08:26 AM
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Had a neighbor, fly on Air Tran, msp-mdw-atl-mco...left o dark thirty, got in around early evening...figured out they saved $5.00 per person per segment...3 of them. Could have went on the then home town airline leave at 1000 get there around 200, would have cost them overall $110.00more.
09-29-2010 | 08:28 AM
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09-29-2010 | 08:41 AM
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The difference is that you won't see any of us go crying to the moderators, and then simultaneously go overboard with the very insults they whined about.
Just another difference between legacy and other carriers.
Nobody is discounting anything. My prediction is that fares in Atlanta will stay the same or rise. Frankly, I can't stand either AirTran or SWA, but at least SWA will drive the high class play back home where they belong, while increasing its costs massively.
The winners in this transaction are Delta and the Air Tan pilots.
Just another difference between legacy and other carriers.
Nobody is discounting anything. My prediction is that fares in Atlanta will stay the same or rise. Frankly, I can't stand either AirTran or SWA, but at least SWA will drive the high class play back home where they belong, while increasing its costs massively.
The winners in this transaction are Delta and the Air Tan pilots.
The DAL pilots aren't the only one's with tremendous egos. In fact, I'd rank them a distant second.
It's already started. The innane chatter of "what you bring to the table" and "windfalls" and "better bases" and all of that nonesense that goes along with any SLI.
The best part? NONE OF IT MATTERS. The AirTran guys bring a huge amount of leverage with their position, both with successorship langauge and financial resources, and they have the law behind them. The process will be followed, and you can be sure there will be plenty of sputtering fussbudgets claiming otherwise.
Welcome to the world of mergers folks.
Nu
09-29-2010 | 08:42 AM
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Had a neighbor, fly on Air Tran, msp-mdw-atl-mco...left o dark thirty, got in around early evening...figured out they saved $5.00 per person per segment...3 of them. Could have went on the then home town airline leave at 1000 get there around 200, would have cost them overall $110.00more.
09-29-2010 | 09:00 AM
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Beer/Tsquare,
This post is in no way meant to prove you guys wrong, but only to show how Southwest Airlines marketing puts a "spin" on their fares.
As you'll see from their site, they're offering specific one-way fares now at $49-$109. (A vagrant can't even get a Greyhound ticket for that price.) The catch, and this is where their marketing department has done a great job of convincing the general public that they're the cheapest, is by offering a minimal amount of these fares, possibly only one $49 one-way fare from each base.
Southwest Airlines | Book Flights, Airline Tickets, Airfare (Site included for reference purposes, in no way intended to promote the competition.)
As you both have stated too, they're not always the cheapest, but "public perception" is over half the battle.
Fly safe,
GJ
This post is in no way meant to prove you guys wrong, but only to show how Southwest Airlines marketing puts a "spin" on their fares.
As you'll see from their site, they're offering specific one-way fares now at $49-$109. (A vagrant can't even get a Greyhound ticket for that price.) The catch, and this is where their marketing department has done a great job of convincing the general public that they're the cheapest, is by offering a minimal amount of these fares, possibly only one $49 one-way fare from each base.
Southwest Airlines | Book Flights, Airline Tickets, Airfare (Site included for reference purposes, in no way intended to promote the competition.)
As you both have stated too, they're not always the cheapest, but "public perception" is over half the battle.
Fly safe,
GJ
09-29-2010 | 09:25 AM
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That will take care of the MD-90 mod issues
09-29-2010 | 09:33 AM
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This was entertaining:
You're planning a trip, Monday next week (Oct 4) through 5pm Friday (Oct 8) from Atlanta to SFO.
4 Choices:
1. Delta Direct - $476 round trip, all direct. Leaves at 3pm on the 4th and then leaves SFO at 1040pm.
2. AirTran - $545 round trip, but you have to leave by noon. If you come back on Saturday, $342!!!!!!! However, DAL is offering $377 and gets you back by 135pm. Of course, you can leave earlier on AirTran but it'll cost you $426 and you get back by 2pm. Boy, that AirTran is really putting pressure on Delta isn't it?
3. SWA - drive 2 hrs to BHM then BHM to MDW to SFO - $888 but the problem is you have to come back the next morning if you really need to work until 5pm Friday. SO... your choices are $888 coming back at 1220pm and connecting in PHX. Or you can do the super web sale, that is a good bit cheaper, and thats $352 coming back on Friday at 1220 or $446 if you come back on the 620am flight Saturday morning and make 2 stops arriving at BHM at 430pm, or $194 if you leave at 950am and make 1 stop and arrive at 650pm in BHM. Then drive 2 hours home.
4. AMTRAK - Best deal yet, $349... oh wait, multiply by 2, $700. You go ATL to Washington DC to Chicago to Emeryville CA and bus from there. 95 hours travel time. And they're sold out on the sleeper cars which run around $300 more. So if there had been a sleeper car you're looking around $650ish... ONE WAY!!! So now its 95 hours in a seat. ALLL ABOARD.
You're planning a trip, Monday next week (Oct 4) through 5pm Friday (Oct 8) from Atlanta to SFO.
4 Choices:
1. Delta Direct - $476 round trip, all direct. Leaves at 3pm on the 4th and then leaves SFO at 1040pm.
2. AirTran - $545 round trip, but you have to leave by noon. If you come back on Saturday, $342!!!!!!! However, DAL is offering $377 and gets you back by 135pm. Of course, you can leave earlier on AirTran but it'll cost you $426 and you get back by 2pm. Boy, that AirTran is really putting pressure on Delta isn't it?
3. SWA - drive 2 hrs to BHM then BHM to MDW to SFO - $888 but the problem is you have to come back the next morning if you really need to work until 5pm Friday. SO... your choices are $888 coming back at 1220pm and connecting in PHX. Or you can do the super web sale, that is a good bit cheaper, and thats $352 coming back on Friday at 1220 or $446 if you come back on the 620am flight Saturday morning and make 2 stops arriving at BHM at 430pm, or $194 if you leave at 950am and make 1 stop and arrive at 650pm in BHM. Then drive 2 hours home.
4. AMTRAK - Best deal yet, $349... oh wait, multiply by 2, $700. You go ATL to Washington DC to Chicago to Emeryville CA and bus from there. 95 hours travel time. And they're sold out on the sleeper cars which run around $300 more. So if there had been a sleeper car you're looking around $650ish... ONE WAY!!! So now its 95 hours in a seat. ALLL ABOARD.
09-29-2010 | 11:04 AM
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Subject Change Alert
New service from ATL to Luanda, Angola using the A330-200. Nice high-time trip, at least (I'm guessing it'll be a 4 pilot crew).
Let me know how the layover is...
Let me know how the layover is...
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