What Would You Do? (A Delta Air Question)

[spacemtn1971]

We are planning a trip in August to Disney. We being me, wife and twin 5.5 year old daughters.

We have always been fortunate to get a "decent" deal out of CVG on Delta, have flown four times and not paid more than $200 for a nonstop flight.

once we even managed to fly in and out of daytona which made it real nice.

the short story is that CVG is Delta territory. I have an option for a flight out of Dayton on US Air with decent connections for about $250. This is really only about an hour up I-75 so wouldn't be too bad.

Doesn't it seem that if Delta goes under that fares on other airlines will increase due to the higher demand? So my question is this, should I go ahead and take the US Air option before April 18th? Would you wait and see what happens with Delta before booking anything? And does anyone know what other airlines might do to take advantage of Delta's possible demise?

On a side note, since Cinergy was taken over by Duke Energy it might make since for US Air to boost their stake here in Cincinnati since Charlotte is one of their hubs. But that's another story.

Just curious what other people in Delta dominated markets are thinking.

Thanks!

 

[JoeCathyAngelina]

Boston is about 1350 miles from WDW. Next Year we're driving down to WDW. We drove down 3 years ago, it was cheap ($250 to drive down compared to $1,000 for Airline tickets, transfers and car rental) and it wasn't that bad a drive so we'll do it again next year.
If driving to WDW is an option for you, drive.
After 8 months of fustration, aggravation with Airline flight cancellations, schedule changes, Airport crowds, Cattle calls (TSA security checks are a Joke) and expensive fares I've had it with the Airlines. Next April we're driving.
Good luck,
Joe

 

[bicker]

Doesn't it seem that if Delta goes under that fares on other airlines will increase due to the higher demand?

That's really what is necessary to get some stability back into this industry. Even JetBlue is losing money now. If you didn't buy the jet fuel you're using the fly now a few years ago then your airline is going to lose money at the insanely low fares they're charging now. I've read a dozen threads today from people upset that they're having to pay $230 or $260 for airline tickets, when ever at that level they're still $60-$90 less expensive than they should be, and that's because there is simply too much capacity.

I'm sure that some airline will try to fill any gap left by Delta, but if they're smart, they'll leave some of that gap there, and raise fares, because even the one airline that bought its fuel a few years ago is going to have to face reality in a year or two. An industry expert mentioned last week that the last few years we've been worried about the legacy carriers going through bankruptcy -- that that issue will be pretty-much resolved by this time next year and we'll start having to worry about the upstarts going through bankruptcy about then.

 

[goofy4tink]

We have most likely seen the end of those $130 r/t fares from NE to WDW. With fuel prices the way they are, there is no way the airlines can offer those low prices. I would be more than happy to fay a higher fare if I could be assured that I would get close to the same flight that I had booked when it came time to fly.

 

[disneytraveler]

Well my Jetblue ticket cost about 210.00 .It was 89 each way but friday night the bos to mco went up to 109.00 and the return remained at 89.00.
I did not mind since i am arriving even 1/2 earlier than i was with the delta ticket .I am departing mco in the early evening but i dont mind that also.