The cost difference doesn’t even include the fact that, for those of us in the suburbs, Dayton is much more convenient. I’ve had to drop off and pick up the wife at the Northern Kentucky Airport (if it was the Cincinnati Airport it would be in Ohio) many times and you have to allow a lot more time for traffic. The one thing I’ll give the NKA is their parking is better than in Dayton. The Dayton airport parking lot is worse than some war zones.

As far as the gun confiscating goof, we are all just too concerned. Once we all surrender the government will take care of us. Oops, was that too sarcastic?

BUT, it’s the lack of a meaningful competitor that keeps fares for those seats that are available high. If NWA did more than just go to Minneapolis or US Airways do more than just go to Pittsburgh, Delta’s fares wouldn’t be so high.

When you drive to Dayton to get on a Delta flight that lands in Cincy for your connection, and you’re saving sometimes $500 or more in comparison to boarding in Cincy, something is screwed up. Delta is probably losing money on the hundreds of thousands of people doing that, yet they won’t take Cincy fares down to avoid those losses.

#2, I looked for the raw data and couldn’t get to it quickly. I would guess that Louisville isn’t much more expensive than the other three nearby cities. Don’t know about Lex, which I don’t think is in the top 100.

The fares out of Cincinnati are more expensive because Cincinnati is one of Delta’s major hubs. Many of the transcontinental and international flights are sourced out of Cincy. Most of the traffic in Cincinnati is from layovers. So the seat prices are high, because demand is high.