Cancun vs Cozumel Flight

[Dave Dillehay]

Dear All,

As an add on comment, after 23 years of back and forth from both coasts I offer this.

If you can get a direct flight without plane change to Cozumel, take it. If not, and if you can get a direct flight to Cancun, take that. If all options require plane change it would take a $100 per ticket discount to choose Cancun.


Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

 

[mstevens]

If you can get a direct flight without plane change to Cozumel, take it. If not, and if you can get a direct flight to Cancun, take that. If all options require plane change it would take a $100 per ticket discount to choose Cancun.

WAY more concise than my version, and $100 more tolerant of CUN.

 

[MeisterEMH]

besides deciding between your 'destination' cities (Cancun or Cozumel), are you able to choose alternative starting cities for your flights?

for example, in my case, i might normally choose Seattle as a starting point (and yes, going to CZM ended up almost $200 more than going to Cancun),
but - I also live close enough to the Vancouver(Canada) airport....it's only about $65 more per person to CZM...in my case, well below the decision threshold...i'd be willing to pay that extra $65 for the convenience of landing directly in CZM.

I am currently researching flights and I'm finding a $230/person price difference between flying into Cancun and Cozumel. At what point does it become cost effective to make this flight?

 

[ggunn]

WAY more concise than my version, and $100 more tolerant of CUN.

It would take a bit more than a $100 difference for me, with my wife and all the crapola we take with us.

 

[Lorenzoid]

If you can get a direct flight without plane change to Cozumel, take it. If not, and if you can get a direct flight to Cancun, take that. If all options require plane change it would take a $100 per ticket discount to choose Cancun.

For a direct (nonstop that is) flight from Atlanta to Cozumel, Delta wants in the neighborhood of $750. For a nonstop flight from Atlanta to Cancun, it's more like $400-$450. It's a no-brainer for us.

 

[judydivescoz]

For a direct (nonstop that is) flight from Atlanta to Cozumel, Delta wants in the neighborhood of $750. For a nonstop flight from Atlanta to Cancun, it's more like $400-$450. It's a no-brainer for us.

It is incredible that I can fly from the NYC metro area to CZM via ATL on Delta for much less than you can fly from ATL-CZM. Airlines are insane!. I have rarely paid more than $500.

 

[ggunn]

It is incredible that I can fly from the NYC metro area to CZM via ATL on Delta for much less than you can fly from ATL-CZM. Airlines are insane!. I have rarely paid more than $500.

A few years ago when I was shopping for flights, at the time it was twice as expensive to fly to Cozumel from Houston than from Toronto on Continental, even though the HOU-CZM leg from Toronto was the same flight. There is no correlation between fares and distance flown.

 

[Lorenzoid]

It is incredible that I can fly from the NYC metro area to CZM via ATL on Delta for much less than you can fly from ATL-CZM. Airlines are insane!. I have rarely paid more than $500.

Yep, that's how it works. Because Atlanta is Delta's hub, and they have a monopoly on the ATL-CZM nonstop route, they charge a premium for it. It sucks for us frequent travelers to live in a city that is home to just one giant airline.

To fly to Bonaire last year, we got clever and drove 2-1/2 hours to Birmingham, AL, then did a BHM-ATL-BON-ATL-BHM and drove back home from Birmingham to Atlanta! It saved my wife and me something like a combined $400 over the ATL-BON-ATL nonstop. I guess it's all a matter of what one's time is worth to them (and the cost of gas, parking, etc.).

 

[cvchief]

It is incredible that I can fly from the NYC metro area to CZM via ATL on Delta for much less than you can fly from ATL-CZM. Airlines are insane!. I have rarely paid more than $500.

Yet if I try to do if from the DC cluster of airport, it is well over 500 or LONG layovers or both. Airlines are weird.

 

[judydivescoz]

Yet if I try to do if from the DC cluster of airport, it is well over 500 or LONG layovers or both. Airlines are weird.

I guess competitive airline prices that is one of the very few good things about living in the NYC metro area.