lynn jones Posted August 13, 2003 Share Posted August 13, 2003 Memphis is a hub for Northwest. now get this, if you live in nashville, tn and want to go to phoenix, az for the area 2 championship. it will cost you $198. if you live in memphis, tn the price is $259. it gets better the flight from nashville stops in memphis. it's even cheaper if you fly out of littlerock, ar. please tell me WHY! Total price for this trip: $433.00 Average price per passenger: $216.50 Nashville (BNA) Depart 6:25 am to Memphis (MEM) Arrive 7:30 am 200 mi (322 km) Duration: 1hr 5mn Flight: 282 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economy/Coach Class, MDC DC9-50, 80% on time -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memphis (MEM) Depart 8:35 am to Phoenix (PHX) Arrive 11:05 am Terminal 3 1261 mi (2029 km) Duration: 3hr 30mn Flight: 1799 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economy/Coach Class, Airbus A320, 90% on time -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total miles: 1461 mi (2351 km) Total duration: 4hr 35mn (6hr 40mn with connections) Sun 9-Nov-03 Phoenix (PHX) Depart 4:35 pm Terminal 3 to Memphis (MEM) Arrive 8:32 pm 1261 mi (2029 km) Duration: 2hr 57mn Flight: 1796 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economy/Coach Class, Airbus A320 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Memphis (MEM) Depart 9:40 pm to Nashville (BNA) Arrive 10:34 pm 200 mi (322 km) Duration: 0hr 54mn Flight: 817 Total price for this trip: $517.00 Average price per passenger: $258.50 Wed 5-Nov-03 Memphis (MEM) Depart 8:35 am to Phoenix (PHX) Arrive 11:05 am Terminal 3 1261 mi (2029 km) Duration: 3hr 30mn Flight: 1799 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economy/Coach Class, Airbus A320, 90% on time -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total miles: 1261 mi (2029 km) Total duration: 3hr 30mn Sun 9-Nov-03 Phoenix (PHX) Depart 4:35 pm Terminal 3 to Memphis (MEM) Arrive 8:32 pm 1261 mi (2029 km) Duration: 2hr 57mn Flight: 1796 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Do what we used to do all the time: buy the flight from Nashville and chuck the stub for the Memphis-Nashville leg. On the way back home, ask them to check your luggage only to Nashville, because you "have a meeting." The airlines may have put the kibosh on this gambit since. For some stupid reason it was always cheaper to fly from Seattle through Portland than just from Portland to anywhere, so that's what we did - and it saved us hundreds every trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDH Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Well, welcome to Cincinnati, Ohio... the last time I checked it was the SECOND highest place in the Country to fly to/from because Delta owns something like 96% of the takeoffs and landings. Great examples.... Cincy to Knoxville RT $970...... Cincy/Kansas City/Milwaukee/Cincy $1018....... Cincy/Portland/Bend $679 (with months advance notice). The best example I have seen recently was Cincy/Omaha RT at around $1350. There were three of us making this trip so we diligently searched nearby airports, and found that we could fly to Omaha for something like $225 each out of Indianapolis. We drove to the Cincinnati airport... dropped our cars.... picked up a rental car and drove to Indianapolis (2 hours)..... dropped off the rental... FLEW back to Cincinnati.... only to connect to the SAME D*MN DELTA FLIGHT that there were going to screw us with the $1300/ea fare out of Cincy. Of course on the return, we 'missed' our Cincinnati connection back to Indianapolis, so we had to just get in our cars and drive home. In other words, all THREE of us fly the route we needed on the same flight from Cincinnati at approximately HALF of what they would have charged for ONE of us leaving from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn jones Posted August 22, 2003 Author Share Posted August 22, 2003 well, i feel better now that i'm not the only one getting ripped off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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