Now here’s an unpleasant development: Delta’s cutting back their flight schedule to/from Toledo quite a bit. It’s not so much that they’re cutting flights, it’s which ones they’re cutting
Right now, we have 8 daily flights (departing 6:05a, 9:12a, 10:02a, 12:06p, 1:50p, 4:00p, 6:56p, and 8:20p) between Toledo and Cincinnati, and 4 flights a day between Toledo and Atlanta (departing 7:00a, 10:37a, 3:52p, and 8:06p). After September 1st, we lose the last two flights of the day to CVG and the last flight of the day to ATL. For me, that means my normal route of leaving late in the day for trips is now over with– I can either leave in the afternoon or the very early morning, assuming that there are connecting flights.
For example, we just got a new client in New York City. I can leave at 4pm the day before, or I can leave at 6am and connect in Cincinnati and Richmond to get there at noon– no good for a 10am meeting. Same thing on the return: a 7:30p LGA-CVG flight would formerly have gotten me home about 11p– late but manageable. Now I have to leave LGA at 5:30p to make it home the same night, which means my one-day 9a-5p meeting just turned into two days. Thanks a lot, guys. (And don’t get me started on the effects of this change on my West Coast trips.)
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