Northwest Airlines Hates Me

25 Jun 2004 By

There are three different events occurring in Michigan this summer that I would/should have attended. Except that I needed the price of airfare on Northwest to be $200 or less so I could cover the ticket plus the $100 change fee with the credit I have.

In the two months of monitoring ticket prices since I obtained the credit plus about two months before that, an MSP-DTW round trip never dropped below $250. Until today, when the first event has already passed, the second event is tonight and the third is next weekend.

Fuckin’ bastards. Out of the eight cities I have on my watchlist, Detroit is the closest and has been by far the most expensive. It’s a scratchafrickin’ hub-to-hub flight! There are something like 14 flights a day between Minneapolis and Detroit! Northwest, why must you gouge me and run all the other discount airlines out of town?! Fuckin’ bastards.

  • http://nora.heathens.co.nz/ Nora

    Aw, piss. Can you find any cheapo last-minute fares? Then again, I don’t suppose Detroit is the kind of place people decide to visit on the spur of the moment. :(

  • Bridgette

    I am with you in your pain.

    I had to fly from NYC to DTW this weekend and couldn’t find a flight below $230, and even that was two 6am flights. Stupid NW. No way in hell I am paying over $200 for a 50 minute flight.

    GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

    Then freakin Spirit had to go and be $250. TWO FIFTY to fly on freakin Spirit.

    And, yet, I find a flight from here to Texas for $217.

    GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    Flights to Los Angeles have been $143.

    I would have gone for the last minute fare, except that I have no cash on hand to spend, and the one place I normally go to for last minute fares won’t let me use the credit to pay if I book a Northwest flight.

  • http://s-train.kaphmedia.net S-Train

    You ain’t lyin’ E. NWA (think about those letters) are a bunch of gangstas. They own the new DTW terminal. All you see are NWA employees and their presence. And they make sure you FEEL THEM no matter where you go.