Delta To Cut Fares
 

Heads up all you Delta flyers. Just read an AP report that Delta, in order to win back flyers, is going to be doing fare reductions for Domestic flights (not International).

Might be good to keep any eye on the website if you have travel plans. ((*))

Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks. Will keep a check on it. ((r))

Sounds good--might have to plan a trip somewhere :-)

That's very kind of you. Thanks!

For you Atlanta folks, Delta is to add more flights and 7 more destinations from Atlanta.

They are changing the fee for rebooking tickets from $100.00 to $50.00

They are to eliminate the Saturday night stay.

All this for domestic flights, not international flights. ((*))

That's nice, but if they really want to win back customers, they might think about their customer service!

Too bad it doesn't affect international flights. I'm in the process of changing the dates of an international flight and they won't even consider charging less than $200 to change it!

so far,nothing is showing up in their schedules with any price reductions...
I am looking for a cheap tkt into and out of FLL in April-May..

Thanks LoveItaly. Didn't they just change the rebooking from $50 to $100 recently? Guess that didn't work out too well for Delta - glad to see them change it back to $50.

I just checked the Delta website for a ticket that I have been tracking daily for the past month hoping the fare would decrease. Now, the fare has gone up $50. I guess if they increase all the prices, then they can advertise an across the board decrease and return the to the original fares. Sheesh!

But DAL's coach seats are really awful.
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Well personally after 2 flights on Delta I do not use them. Dirty planes etc. But for those that do use Delta it might be good to go to their website Delta.com to keep tabs on their flights and fares. Especially those that fly out of Atlanta.

Hope we all have better flights in 2005, but not holding my breath ((*))

I said this on another thread before I saw this one.

This is a PR move. Given how precarious Delta's financial position is (and the talk of them filing bankruptcy only subsided the last month or so) I can't imagine they can do an across the board revenue reduction without figuring out how to pay for it. They are still dealing with a bloated expense structure and fuel prices that are inflated - though less so then a few months ago.

This is a PR move. Some ticket prices will go down and maybe on those routes where people have a better feel for a "deal" they'll be more noticeable. I just don't see how you can reduce revenue without somehow figuring out how to pay for it.

Ryan (and anyone else) what do you think of the concept of making tickets transferrable? Think about it - this is the only product I can think of that can't be given away or resold...what a boon it would be if they'd make their tickets reusable. To avoid the terrorist panic, they could make a rule like no transfers within one week of flight. Now THAT would be newsworthy! And I think pax would be willing to pay more for this feature.

What a crock, sounds good, but the reality is, it's just a publicity stunt.

Look, let's face it, how many of us buy last minute tickets? In the literally hundreds of flights my family has taken, we have NEVER bought a last minute flight (other than for business travel, and we aren't paying for that anyway).

I've been tracking a normally very low-cost route (NYC-MCO) for months, and the rates are at least $75 higher than I have ever seen them.

Yeah, they're cutting fares, but those are fares the average consumer never touches anyway...big deal Delta, make your announcement when you've got some real news!

There is no benefit to the airline to make tickets transferable. If anything, I can see a big downside - namely some enterprising person scalping tickets on popular routes during peak times. Not sure about you, but I'm not ready for some guy at the airport saying "who needs two, I got two right here to Orlando. Who needs them. Anybody got an extra ticket, anbody, anybody..."

I'm with Patrick and think better customer service would be more effective.

Their customer service as far as I'm concerned is crap.

Delta refused to give me FF credit for a round trip flight I took shortly after my marriage in January 2000. Because I hyphenate my maiden name with my married name and my FF account was in my maiden name, they would not credit me. I spent a couple of weeks trying to straighten this out with no help from Delta.

The last straw was that Delta needed a certified copy of my wedding license before they would credit me. Huh?

I took my last flight with Delta in January of 2000 and donated every single FF mile I had with them to the effort to get military personel home.

As long as the flying public bases its purchase decisions solely on price airline service, amenities, seat comfort and cleanliness will suffer.

I live in a Delta hub city and their prices here have been horrible. Many people have, for years, been driving to neighboring cities to get cheaper fares. I have myself, and know many others who have as well, driven to Lexington, Louisville, Dayton to get a lower fare. Our local news has been reporting that the lower fares are specifically to combat this issue - customers driving to neighboring cities for lower fares.

Personally, I didn't have any problem transferring FF miles when I got married (just changed the name on my skymiles acct). Living in a hub city, my choices are pretty much Delta, Delta, or Delta. I hope the fares really do go down - it's annoying having to drive home from Louisville after a long trip when the Cincinnati airport is so much closer.