Originally Posted By: CARJ
Started flying into CVG from California years ago and there wasn't much there. As I recall they were only using one terminal and there wasn't anything to eat near it. Haven't flown into there in a number of years, but good to hear it's growing-- means times are good. Adding more jobs is always a good thing.
That must have been long enough ago that you missed the glory days of the Delta hub, for which the airport built a mid-field terminal just for Delta and also had a terminal for Delta's contracted regional flights alone.
The airport was bustling in those days and since Delta used CVG mainly as a waypoint hub, DAY bustled as well with lower cost options and was quite convenient from northern Hamilton County. It was actually sometimes many hundreds of dollars cheaper to originate at DAY and connect to a flight at CVG than the same flight would have been priced from CVG, as though an RJ flying the seventy miles between the two somehow had a negative cost.
How times have changed. CVG is becoming a regional low cost Mecca while DAY is dying.
