Just curious as to others thoughts and what people are doing.
I fly Delta or its partners whenever I can, however I have a lot of trips coming up to Asia all of sudden again for this late spring through Fall (5 trips). I haven't booked the flights yet, but looking at Delta then doing partner flights, not only are the flights much more complicated like flying to Paris, Soul, or Shanghai then to Hong Kong, Singapore, Hanoi, Manila or Phuket, but the prices are 35% to 900% more for coach fares that I have seen and 210% to almost 700% more for F tickets.
I can fly in J on United to HKG for $4235 all in, Delta wants $3842 for a main cabin fare and $22,835 for a Delta One experience (and Premium Select is over $7k), and that makes me fly over to CDG first, if I fly to ICN first the ticket is another $2800 but I save 17 hours in travel time with layovers. If I fly United through SFO that's the shortest time, and cheapest both by a long way.....
What is everyone else doing for trips to Asia, just curious because I'm not seeing any viable way to want to fly with Delta for these trips from either a time nor cost perspective. While I really prefer to fly Delta, especially on these long haul flights to get me to my 2MM for the extra kick in for upgrade order on flights and the lifetime platinum status.
As of right now my total cost differential on 5 round trip flights in Y would be $6881 in favor of United, in F it would be over $50k more to fly Delta and Skyteam partners. Just seems ridiculous. Since I am an independent consultant, it's tricky for me to pass along that much more in travel expenses and keep my clients happy from a cost perspective. I'm going over to work at the production site for you products, and my time for that will bill at $2400 a day, but my flights are going to cost double what you are paying me, just doesn't add up.
I am now also struggling with the loss of ITA as a partner for Delta over in Europe. Seems like Delta hasn't managed the global network very well since the failed dethroning of Alaska at SEA.... and giving up the Tokyo Narita Asia Hub
I fly Delta or its partners whenever I can, however I have a lot of trips coming up to Asia all of sudden again for this late spring through Fall (5 trips). I haven't booked the flights yet, but looking at Delta then doing partner flights, not only are the flights much more complicated like flying to Paris, Soul, or Shanghai then to Hong Kong, Singapore, Hanoi, Manila or Phuket, but the prices are 35% to 900% more for coach fares that I have seen and 210% to almost 700% more for F tickets.
I can fly in J on United to HKG for $4235 all in, Delta wants $3842 for a main cabin fare and $22,835 for a Delta One experience (and Premium Select is over $7k), and that makes me fly over to CDG first, if I fly to ICN first the ticket is another $2800 but I save 17 hours in travel time with layovers. If I fly United through SFO that's the shortest time, and cheapest both by a long way.....
What is everyone else doing for trips to Asia, just curious because I'm not seeing any viable way to want to fly with Delta for these trips from either a time nor cost perspective. While I really prefer to fly Delta, especially on these long haul flights to get me to my 2MM for the extra kick in for upgrade order on flights and the lifetime platinum status.
As of right now my total cost differential on 5 round trip flights in Y would be $6881 in favor of United, in F it would be over $50k more to fly Delta and Skyteam partners. Just seems ridiculous. Since I am an independent consultant, it's tricky for me to pass along that much more in travel expenses and keep my clients happy from a cost perspective. I'm going over to work at the production site for you products, and my time for that will bill at $2400 a day, but my flights are going to cost double what you are paying me, just doesn't add up.
I am now also struggling with the loss of ITA as a partner for Delta over in Europe. Seems like Delta hasn't managed the global network very well since the failed dethroning of Alaska at SEA.... and giving up the Tokyo Narita Asia Hub