Bishop International Airport in Flint, Mich., has lost 19 percent of its direct flights, meaning that many travelers face complicated itineraries that involve circuitous routes and layovers. It took Josh Hunter three separate planes, two connections and a two-hour drive to get from Mobile, Ala., to Cincinnati at Easter. When he added it all up, his 720-mile trip had lasted 12 hours — about the same it would have taken him to drive. “The whole point of flying should be to save a lot of time, and… (www.nytimes.com) More...
I don't know what he wound up taking, but I just took a quick look at the DAL website and there are about a dozen or so one stop flights, DAL direct, DC9 and MD88, not an RJ via ATL with no long layover and a trip duration a lot less than 12 hours. He was either bad tight looking for a cheapo fare or is just looking for some sensationalism. Now, he might not have liked the price, which was just under a grand, RT, but that didn't figure into this story.
To boot, there is not much love lost for CVG. Actually, they are just colatteral damge as a result of some crap Com-Air pulled a few years back. Whaen DAL went into BR, all the regionals that could tried taking up some slack and hiring DAL's furloughed pilots. ComAir thumbed theier nose at the thought and it hasn't been forgotten. They are but a shadow of their former self.
