Question for frequent Air Tran travelers

[Mouseaholic!!!]

I fly Air Tran for work but it's always between Baltimore and Atlanta. Those non-stop flights are never changed.

This year, for the first time, we are doing our DL trip the end of November.

THE PERFECT FLIGHT - the mother of all perfect flights......is a non-stop Air Tran flight from Baltlimore to Los Angeles. So far there are very few seats sold.

I know Air Tran has a bad reputation for changing non-stop flights into two flights - and not nearly as convenient as the original non-stop.

We are traveling the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend - generally not a busy day. We have award tickets with Southwest but Saturday is a blackout day for reward tickets.

For those Air Tran specialists - what do you think? Risk it and book the perfect non-stop flight or just fly the Southwest flight and change in Las Vegas.


I know - it's a toss of a coin, isn't it?


We generally fly to Orlando and have buckets of non-stop flights that Southwest never cancels....but the Grand Californian is waiting this year - and who can say NO to the Grand Californian?

Thank you for your help.

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

Well I would take the chance with Airtran. You might get lucky and they won't change the non stop. The worst case is they change it to a one stop flight which is the same senerio that you would be faced with if you booked SW.
So book the non stop what do you have to loose.

 

[DeadHead]

Since Atlanta is AirTran's only hub, if they do change it to a connecting flight you would have a non-stop from Atlanta. I would stick with AirTran, but that's me, good luck and have a good trip.