Cherokee's Delta Rants from "Alaska Hawaiian Merger"

[nc1982]

It's available on certain flight segments where there is a higher-than normal encroachment of ULCC's.

But facts aren't what's important. What's important are… feelings.

JetU says I always bounce stuff off of you so I won’t comment. He gets butt hurt.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

@Cherokee_Cruiser, sometime in the future, on a trip to Rome, using his socialist/central-planning views on the airlines on a shop somewhere in Italy:

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Nah. It’s Delta being the lone legacy carrier out, matching akin to Spirit and Allegiant on that very topic.


Besides, I thought you said you were not interested in going further in this topic? Weird change.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

That’s for Delta Main not Basic. Just looked in the app. Basic isn’t available on that flight.

I see it now.

Correction now, to:


For 4 people. $480 plus seats and bags. Or $2596 plus seats and bags?


Bought the Spirit fare, seats were $36 each.

So 120+36 =156


KEEP in mind, that neither Spirit or Delta guarantee family seating. So on both carriers, I have to pick the fare category that includes seat picking (on Delta that’s something higher than Basic Exonomy). And on Spirit, pick the Value (cheapest) fare and then pick+pay seats.

Total 480 fare plus 144 seats = $624. Grand total for 4 people.


Delta ticket for one passenger = $649


4 people on Spirit doesn’t even touch 1 passenger price on Delta, for that redeye on Fri night. Ouch!

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

JetU says I always bounce stuff off of you so I won’t comment. He gets butt hurt.

I don’t get hurt. On anything Delta, you have to team tag with Derg, Roro, or another Delta pilot. You’re just not original.


I digress from this whole topic. Others have already chimed in on guarantee family seating on Basic economy fares, so I know y’all get it. And realize Delta doesn’t while literally every other legacy does.

 

[derg]

Well, it appears that you are free to enjoy whatever level of service you prefer on a competing carrier.

This is good news, right? Of course you expect some government mandate.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Well, it appears that you are free to enjoy whatever level of service you prefer on a competing carrier.

This is good news, right? Of course you expect some government mandate.

Of course there’s govt mandates. Airlines don’t just do things out of the goodness of their hearts. It’s just that this isn’t related to flight/MX safety, rather it’s a convenience, so it doesn’t gain a lot of traction. Kudos to the shops that abide by it. Literally everyone else except DAL/NK/ALG.

 

[derg]

Enjoy your flight on American!

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Enjoy your flight on American!

That’s a funny way of saying “Spirit, but make it lAAte.”

 

[BlueMoon]

I see it now.

Correction now, to:


For 4 people. $480 plus seats and bags. Or $2596 plus seats and bags?


Bought the Spirit fare, seats were $36 each.

So 120+36 =156


KEEP in mind, that neither Spirit or Delta guarantee family seating. So on both carriers, I have to pick the fare category that includes seat picking (on Delta that’s something higher than Basic Exonomy). And on Spirit, pick the Value (cheapest) fare and then pick+pay seats.

Total 480 fare plus 144 seats = $624. Grand total for 4 people.


Delta ticket for one passenger = $649


4 people on Spirit doesn’t even touch 1 passenger price on Delta, for that redeye on Fri night. Ouch!

Understood, I probably would have done the same thing if it was my money.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Understood, I probably would have done the same thing if it was my money.

I’ll go for luxuries later. Atm, that extra $2000 I can put towards my mortgage principal and pay that off sooner saving 6.625% interest.