Paul Comment
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Flying down to FLL tomorrow. Then back to ORH Monday. Originally, the flight looked 50-60% full now it’s 75% full (35 seats were booked within the last 8 hours since I checked in). Not sure if it’s a glitch or actually true but if true, 75% full for a Thursday after Labor Day weekend is very good. Heck 60% full ain’t bad either for this time of year. Little disappointed that the Orlando and Fort Lauderdale flight are 5x a week now until at least January (Thursday to Monday) but I’m interested to see if load factors change and increase because of it or what the reason behind it is.
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JetBlue goes back to a 7-day schedule on December 19th. In the mean time people can always book one way on Delta and connect to FLL or MCO on Tuesdays or Wednesdays if need be. It may boost Delta slightly if people have travel Tuesday/Wednesday.
I don’t think many people would opt to use Delta to get from ORH to Fort Lauderdale or Orlando. For starters, the flights arrive to Florida way too late. Also, once you arrive at LaGuardia you’re looking at 2 and 3 hour layovers. At that point you’re just better going out of TF Green. I just booked two trips to West Palm Beach out of TF Green. Flying on Delta out of ORH gives me a 3 hour layover at LaGuardia and the connecting flight doesn’t get into West Palm Beach until after 10pm. The total cost of the two trips combined out of TF Green was about the same as the cost as one trip out of ORH would have been. Parking at TF Green is $60 for 5 days if you pre-pay. The 1 hour drive to TF Green is not a huge deal either as I’d rather drive an hour than sit at LaGuardia for 3 hours. The flights out of TF Green also get in much earlier in the day as opposed to the ORH/LaGuardia flight that gets in late at night.
My small trip report from yesterday.
– The aircraft arrived on time but needed a mechanic to come and check it once it landed. Luckily the crew kept us informed and the mechanic came extremely fast. We boarded and left the gate at 145.
– We got to the end of the runway waiting to take off and they told us that the FAA was slowing down takeoffs in the northeast. We ended up leaving at 315 instead of 150. Landed at Fort Lauderdale 45 minutes late.
– The Orlando flight had this same issue yesterday, arrived to ORH on time but left later than scheduled. It was still unclear why the delay happened but my guess is at that time, Washington Dulles had a ground stop due to weather and all international flights that were heading to IAD were right above Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. They mentioned to us that the space was too crowded above us and we couldn’t take off but the pilots were in constant contact.
– Overall it was still a good flight, about 80% full (wasn’t completely sold out, couple of empty seats but all single seats). It only took me 3 minutes to go from getting dropped off at the airport to the gate and that’s what makes flying out of the airport worth it. Unfortunately though, with ORH being a smaller airport, planes that takeoff from there that go to the places they do have lower priority over those that go out of Logan. Only inconvenience but a non stop flight it’s not an issue, a delta flight or an American flight it could be. I’ll do another one when I fly back Monday.