Paul trip
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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.
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Great comments Paul, especially that the mechanic was quick to respond. A couple of comments and clarifications, before they become internet folklore like jetblue not wanting to add flights out of Worcester beyond 3 to avoid insourcing. All northeast airports had delay programs due to thunderstorms in NJ, NC, and FL constricting routes. The international flights weren’t an impact as they generally operate at a higher level over the northeast airports. The biggest comment that needs to be nipped in the bud is that larger airports like Logan DO NOT have priority over smaller airports like Worcester. That would be illegal. Flights are slotted based on departure times. In fact, there are benefits to flying out of airports like Worcester. 1. When there’s a delay program out of Worcester, you may have 1 or 2 departures holding. Logan? They rack’em and stack’em and next thing you know, you hear the PA blare “folks, we’re number 14 for take off”. 2. Suggest you tune into the KORH tower frequency on liveatc.net next time you’re stuck on a delayed flight. What you’ll hear will be the controllers talking to the pilot to work on some alternate routes they could request with ARTCC to speed up departure clearance. I guarantee you, the airlines won’t get that personal service at the other busier airports. 3. Regardless of delay programs, take a look at “scheduled flight duration” times on similar flights out of Logan and Worcester. On average, during peak times at Logan, the airlines pad 10-15 minutes on their flights to factor taxi time, and queuing time to take off. You dont get that at Worcester.
I only mentioned the priority thing because that’s what the flight attendants told us on the flight. The order flights were leaving Worcester had to be delayed because of it since others at Logan were waiting before us. They claimed it was priority for that but really it was just them waiting before us I guess but we waited 80 minutes but we probably had other planes in other airports trying to get down to Florida the same routes. I knew about the bad weather in DC because I was looking at flight radar and at the time we were waiting, we had a bunch of planes above us in holding patterns because of weather waiting for the storms to pass that wanted to land at IAD. I was on frequency as well listening on my phone but didn’t hear much. I’ve only heard them mention delays but I believe they do the routing in a different frequency other than tower.
Won’t be getting a trip report today. The flight to ORH and back got cancelled. They said it was reasons beyond their control (which is weather or ATC they say) but according to flight radar 24, our plane is in Bridgetown Barbados and is leaving 22 hours late for a flight that was suppose to leave yesterday. I know it’s suppose to rain in Worcester today but with the cat III system, was it really the weather why they cancelled or is that an excuse for them to use so they don’t have to compensate anyone?
This is one thing that everyone on my flight will experience today and sucks with the no flights on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Everyone probably got new itineraries and my original one had me leaving FLL at 430 getting to Jacksonville at 530 then connecting there to get to Logan at 1045 tonight which I couldn’t chance because the only way I go to and from Logan is with the T (I’ll take the silver line to south station then the commuter rail to Worcester). Without the Tuesday/Wednesday flight, it results in a real nightmare for certain families because you have to then figure out how you’re getting home if you fly out on a Monday. Not looking forward to this happening and it’s a risk leaving Worcester especially since there’s zero flights that JetBlue have those days until the middle of January (thanksgiving and Christmas week are exceptions) so if you fly out on a Monday, an alternative plan may be needed. Yes I did change my flight to this afternoon non stop to Logan but I wasn’t able to book it through the app, I had to call them which was a little bit of a pain but it’s figured out now at least. Hopefully they go back to daily flights and stop pushing the no Tuesday and Wednesday flights.