By joe brannan (BonaireTalker - Post #18) on Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 10:06 pm: |
Off to Bon on Friday, regardless of what's happening in the middle east. I'm NOT going to wreck a vacation because of saddam or whomever, I just hope the airlines are flying. Does anybody have any current info on the airlines plans (esp. AJ) as it relates to wartime security.
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By bob neer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #871) on Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 10:13 pm: |
ok joe,
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By joe brannan (BonaireTalker - Post #19) on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 12:23 am: |
but bob.......i'm not even catholic
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By Karen Courchaine (BonaireTalker - Post #33) on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 12:32 am: |
Joe -
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By Cynde Coocoocacho (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5893) on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 1:07 am: |
karen, given your profession, i feel better about telling you all to have a great time (especially spongebob)
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By seb schulherr (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #511) on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 1:21 am: |
YOU GO JOE! Screw anybody that tells ya different. You don't go, the helots win. We were scheduled to go to Bon Sept. 15,01, and we ended up being delayed but going nonetheless on the 19th.
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By DIVER DEBBI (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #231) on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 11:08 pm: |
Go and have a great holiday !...just don't turn on the television and ruin your day....blow bubbles and then return to reality in all due time..
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By cindy nolen (BonaireTalker - Post #34) on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 10:38 am: |
Can anyone tell me what size carryon you can take on DCA. I want to carryon our mask, fins,snorkel, to make sure they dont get lost. I dont need clothes on Bon but do need dive stuff. I called t he airline they said 8x14 carryon......that seems ridiculous. I wonder if this is a new security feature. The overheads surely hold more than that. I could have sworn when we flew DCA last year we took our dive stuff as carryon. Karen, which airline are you flying,,,,,,,,we arrive Sat. via Miami. We are Floridians too(Tampa).......hope to see ya at Gibis
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #4073) on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 11:06 am: |
Cindy,
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By cindy nolen (BonaireTalker - Post #35) on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 12:15 pm: |
Jake, flying nonstop Sat Miami to Bon. on return we go thru Curacao. The one time we flew thru Curacao we did the small plane to Bon and from w hat you say this is a smaller plane. Not looking forward to that. When I made the reservation it was supposed to be nonstop both ways. I am mostly concerned about being able to have dive stuff carryon on way to Bon. If its lost on way home dont care as much. We will check all then anyway.
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1368) on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 6:31 pm: |
DCA may fly a 'loop': MIA-BON-CURACAO-MIA or just MIA-BON-CUR (they likely service the airplane in Curacao: fuel, food, clean, etc.) so it is possible your return flight will be on an MD-80 with a deplane/replane in Curacao. In the 'old days', travel agents, at least, could look up a flight' itinerary including when you changed planes-- they may be able to do that for you now.. I am not sure I would trust DCA to tell me straight. And then, of course, there are the times they stop in Port au Prince without announcing it.
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By Linda Richter - NetTech (Moderator - Post #1372) on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 6:54 pm: |
Quite likely a travel agent cannot look up the Cur-Bon section. Since they switched planes down to the Otters, the flights are no longer listed in the airline systems. The only way to book a Cur-Bon flight is calling DCA or making a res. at their website.
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1371) on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 7:03 pm: |
The MD-80 coming direct MIA-BON must go somewhere!! I was guessing it might loop or, at least, go to CUR. That part may be in the computer, if not the Otter flights. Surprised if Otters are not though-- almost all scheduled flights are. But then, it is DCA. Can't hurt to try.
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