By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #559) on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 1:19 pm: |
I just found out this a.m. from AA that they have cancelled service from SJU to BON. There have been rumors to that effect. My flight was scheduled for Sept 17. The AA agent said the change was issued June 28 but doesn't know when it is in effect....
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By Mickey McCarthy (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #158) on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 1:53 pm: |
Gregg
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By Kelly Jo Lott (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1365) on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 2:25 pm: |
What are the other routes from the US? I have always gone through SJU except my trip in a few weeks is on Delta to Aruba and then on Bonaire Exel. The big issue for me has been the weight limit. Apparently on BE you can only have a total of 66 lbs... (only 44 lbs if they don't have you listed as a diver). So any other time I travel with two bags, approx. 60 lbs. apiece... not this time ! I hope that doesn't end up being one of the only route available... that would suck..
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By Barbara Leary (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #5942) on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 3:13 pm: |
Okay, Gregg, that comment sent me into a phone call frenzy to expedia and AA...both reassured me that my exisiting reservations for July departure and August return are on schedule and the AA rep was not aware of future changes but I didn't ask about specific dates/flights....keeping my fingers crossed in California!
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By Tony Paugoulatos (BonaireTalker - Post #143) on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 4:46 pm: |
The AA flights to and from SJU and BON have been changed as follows:
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By bob (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1217) on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 5:13 pm: |
friday flights from sju to bon are still seem to be on at least thru aug 6th...
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By Carole Baker (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3657) on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 5:14 pm: |
This will undoubtedly pack more folks onto Air Jamaica and they will most likely raise the rates again....supply and demand.....not good. Maybe they will add more planes to the schedule at AJ??? One could only hope...the weekend flights are packed now....Carole
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #560) on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 6:06 pm: |
I waited an hour and called AA back. The second agent told me that AE had changed the schedules such that they fly to Bonaire Mon, Wed, Sat and return Tues, Thurs, Sun
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #561) on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 6:10 pm: |
Tony,
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By Jim Woodward (BonaireTalker - Post #17) on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 6:21 pm: |
Kelly Jo,
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By Marcus L. Barnes (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #144) on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 7:17 pm: |
AA just gave me Monday-Thursday-Saturday to Bonaire from San Juan; Tuesday-Friday-Sunday Bonaire to San Juan for the Late October - Early November time frame. Scans on AA.com are also currently working for me for these days in the April timeframe.
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By Kelly Jo Lott (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1369) on Friday, July 2, 2004 - 10:10 am: |
Jim, that's definitely going to help, not having back ups. Part of my problem too ! Plus, I probably won't be bringing my underwater camera this trip... which really bums me out. But I'm traveling alone and have no one else to bring stuff. I am sending some books to another friend who is traveling from N.C. to Bonaire next week.. so I'll have to get by without any underwater photos this time.. Oh well, I'll be in Bonaire !!!! Woo hoo !!!
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By Tom Cousino (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #585) on Friday, July 2, 2004 - 11:19 am: |
When I first saw this post I said "Oh s---!" Told my dive buddy who is going to Bonaire with me in October about our potential problem. He called a friend at our local airport and got our tickets changed - no problem. Oh well maybe a little one, we now have to spend an extra day on Bonaire:-{)}
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By Marcus L. Barnes (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #145) on Friday, July 2, 2004 - 12:45 pm: |
Tom: The same thing happened to us for our October trip. The only option we had was to add 1 night - gee, how awful.
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By Tom Cousino (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #586) on Friday, July 2, 2004 - 3:02 pm: |
Sad isn't it Marcus?
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By Marcus L. Barnes (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #146) on Friday, July 2, 2004 - 3:13 pm: |
Thanks Tom!
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By Larry Leonard (BonaireTalker - Post #70) on Friday, July 2, 2004 - 3:31 pm: |
Holy guacamole! I have to call AA to check on a couple of tickets for my trip in August now! My 18yo son and his GF are flying AA but their travel days look to match up with the new flight days so I am hopeful they will not have any problems.
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By Susan Taft (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #387) on Friday, July 2, 2004 - 4:58 pm: |
Tom... what a shame to have to spend an extra day! Maybe it will begin to make up for the fiasco last February! Hmmm... sure hope Bob and Bart have that room for you as I think you may be a little tall for the slave huts.
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By Tom Cousino (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #587) on Friday, July 2, 2004 - 5:47 pm: |
Susan, You are such a nice person for worrying about the clearance issue and the "fun" I had getting to Bonaire last year. Although I would take what I went through over what Wally and Eva went through on their journey any day.
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By Susan Taft (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #389) on Friday, July 2, 2004 - 8:28 pm: |
Nice agreement to have with your dive/trvel buddy. Mark and I long ago came to the realization that it is not worth getting all worked up over something out of our control. Last Oct our flight home from LAX was cancelled because of the fires and our rebooked flight was 8 hours later so we rented a car, went to the Getty museum and then out to dinner on Santa Monica Pier -- way better than getting our blood pressure sky high!
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By Jim Woodward (BonaireTalker - Post #19) on Saturday, July 3, 2004 - 9:13 am: |
Kelly Jo,
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By Tom Cousino (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #593) on Sunday, July 4, 2004 - 5:48 am: |
Got our revised tickets yesterday. Hope AE stays with this new schedule. Actually I hope they decide to reinstate their cancelled flights. Bonaire needs more flights not less.
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By Linnea Wijkhof-Wimberly (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #717) on Sunday, July 4, 2004 - 10:27 am: |
So far I have a Friday, Sept. 3 SJU to BON flight, but my Sat. flight BON to SJU had to be changed to a Friday flight. I think the change becomes effective after Labor Day until ??? Since I always spend a day or two on PR each way all I had to do is add a day at the Hotel Milano in Old San Juan (unsolicited and unconnected plug).
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By Corney Ann Carter (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #222) on Sunday, July 4, 2004 - 11:03 am: |
Is this AA change of schedule seasonal during a slack time or is now 3 days a week period?
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By Bill Westman (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Sunday, July 4, 2004 - 8:30 pm: |
According to the latest AA schedule the SJU to BON service is FRI-SAT-SUN-MON and the BON to SJU service is SAT-SUN-MON-TUE. So you cannot travel down on TUE, WED or THU and you cannot travel back on WED-THU or FRI. Hope that clears it up a bit.
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By Sandy Burgess (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #6) on Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - 10:48 am: |
Good Luck to all in rebooking flights. AA did the same thing last year in Sept. I had tickets for the Christmas/New Years holiday when they cancelled the flights. AA tried to get me rebooked (during the holidays???who were they trying to fool?) AA could get me to Aruba and it was my problem to get to Bonaire from there. I finally cancelled (no cancellation fee imposed) and booked Air Jamaica. Later AA called me....the flights had been reinstated and they wanted me to book with them. Needless to say, I stayed with Air Jamaica.
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By Larry Leonard (BonaireTalker - Post #72) on Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - 10:58 am: |
My son and his GF's flights did not have any changes, but like I said they were already flying in on a MON and out on a TUE. I am getting AA to email me their flight info as well as post a paper copy (darn etickets). I've never had a flight disappear from their routes before, what a PITA for folks that have needed to change their vacation plans.
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By Josie (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #932) on Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - 3:07 pm: |
I've just booked for next year, travelling down on Thursday, February 10, and returning on Monday, March 21. This was booked two days ago --- I'm wondering if I need to press them further for confirmation that the flights are actually scheduled (for the Thursday one particularly), in light of Bill's schedule listed above...
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #563) on Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - 5:19 pm: |
Apparently AA is telling everybody a different story on which days they are flying..They cancelled my fligts for Fri and Monday...my advice, check with them often.
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By craig thomson (BonaireTalker - Post #39) on Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - 6:17 pm: |
For what it's worth, I bought my tickets to Bonaire (via Miami and SJU) a long time in advance of our trip (April/May 2004).
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By Chet Wood (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #493) on Wednesday, July 7, 2004 - 7:27 am: |
By doing flight searches on the AA website, I found that starting Labor Day (6 September) the American Eagle flights between San Juan (SJU) and Bonaire (BON) are:
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By DARLENE ELLIS (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1063) on Wednesday, July 7, 2004 - 9:10 am: |
Josie and Chet,
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By Susan Taft (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #391) on Wednesday, July 7, 2004 - 9:28 am: |
Hey Josie and Chet and Jean -- we won't be seeing you all this year at the end of Feb/beginning of March. Have a wedding to pay for which is cutting into our winter travel next year. Look forward to catching up with you again in 2006!!
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By John Matheson (BonaireTalker - Post #16) on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 2:56 pm: |
I just wanted to drop a thanks to Gregg and the rest who posted on this thread. A bunch of us from Alaska are headed to Bonaire in November and many were routing through San Juan on AA. We of course were not notified by American that our flights were canceled and would have been up "you know what" creek had I not read this thread. Now we were able to get all the reservations changed in time and revise our accomodations without it becoming a crisis. Thanks again for taking the time to post.
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By Mike Werne (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #5) on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 9:29 pm: |
Thank you all for posting the alert on American Airlines. I booked a trip with Expedia for Sept. 17 - 26, and after reading your post I logged into Expedia to check things out and had a message to call them. They made no attempt to contact me, if I had not logged into Expedia after reading this thread my vacation would have been ruined since my flight was canceled.
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By Joe Pacific (BonaireTalker - Post #65) on Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 1:24 pm: |
Thanks for the heads up, Gregg.
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By Kate Hickson (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #183) on Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 2:14 pm: |
Chet & Jean, Darlene & Tom, et al--
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By Angela Strozier (BonaireTalker - Post #60) on Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 3:20 pm: |
Thanks for the post....We have flights booked in Sept. and have recieved nothing from AA regarding the change! I just wonder if or when they would have notified us. On the up side we were able to get seats and can still go in Sept. and just move it up a day....
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By Josie (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #937) on Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 12:24 am: |
FYI, I just got off the phone with AA, booking Alan's flight (he'll be on BON Feb 21 - March 8), and they confirm the schedule as:
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By John Matheson (BonaireTalker - Post #17) on Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 5:28 pm: |
Josie,
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By Chet Wood (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #495) on Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 8:25 pm: |
Josie,
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By Josie (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #938) on Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 10:08 pm: |
Chet -- I'd forgotten you and Jean haven't met Alan (yes, he does exist). We'll look forward to seeing you (and the buttons, again!)
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