By Daren Daniels (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #7) on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 2:56 pm: |
Air Jamaica grounds flights
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By Carl Pflanzer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #145) on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 8:08 pm: |
Wow - I wonder what this means to the future of flights to Bonaire through Jamaica... I always found the flights on time, the attendants courteous and the rides smooth. But the plane from MB to BON was never more than half full.
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1981) on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 12:43 am: |
Interesting! Source of the quote???
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By Jeffrey Rein (BonaireTalker - Post #12) on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 10:02 am: |
I was able to find these articles and sources:
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By Jeffrey Rein (BonaireTalker - Post #13) on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 10:04 am: |
I'm suppose to be leaving in 2 weeks on AJ from NY hope this is all straightened out. I am trying to track todays flight and it doesn't look like it is flying
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By Jeffrey Rein (BonaireTalker - Post #14) on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 11:54 am: |
Here is another story
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By Sue Goodman (BonaireTalker - Post #75) on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 1:13 pm: |
Yikes - I leave next Thursday from Newark!! I just shot an email off to Caradonna about the status. I love the connection & afternoon arrival & departure, but AJ really screwed us 2 years ago & they better not do it again.
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By Andrea & Dave Bartlett (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #124) on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 1:33 pm: |
AJ has also discontinued the Houston route which effects a lot of people from the southwest. AJ sure has a mess to clean up. They have made so many changes and people are finding other means to get where they are going that AJ will loose passengers for sure.
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By Sue Goodman (BonaireTalker - Post #76) on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 3:39 pm: |
Donna-marie assures AJ is operating normally from NYC today. I think I will consider coming through Aruba or Curacao next year. I wonder if the Bonaire or N.A. government is keeping on top of this - tourism will suffer if AJ cuts service. I have no interest in the 7am American flights.
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By Gary Long (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #114) on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 3:52 pm: |
Sue, on a 7 day trip you lose one day of diving if you used the no diving 24 hours before flying.
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By Jeffrey Rein (BonaireTalker - Post #15) on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 4:05 pm: |
Not sure where you got your info that all is normal today. I just got off the phone with Air Jamaica and they confirmed that the NY flight was cancelled on Monday and Tues but assured me everything will be normal when I fly in 2 weeks. You couldn't get through the 800 number, had to call their local NY number and be transferred and could barely hear them.
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By Carole Baker (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #4666) on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 6:33 pm: |
Hi, Carl....you guys fly on Wednesday to Wednesday, right? Maybe that's why your MB to Bonaire flight is only half full. We leave on the Saturday a.m. flights out of Newark and they are cattle cars filled to the brim in each direction.
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By Nadine Rubin (BonaireTalker - Post #90) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 12:03 am: |
wow! Today I cancelled our Sat. trip due to bad feelings about the power problem...... will go in April hopefully everyone will have their act together by then!
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By Carl Pflanzer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #146) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 12:05 am: |
Hi Carole - No complaints about the plane being half full... :-) I believe I actually fell asleep on a flight once!
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By Sue Goodman (BonaireTalker - Post #77) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 12:14 am: |
Got an email from Donna-Marie at Caradonna that claimed she heard nothing about problems this weekend and that today's Newark & JFK flights to MoBay took off on time.
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By mary pequinot (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #417) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 8:50 am: |
This is certainly unsettling news. We don't leave until May, but it still makes me nervous...
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By Sonya S (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #2) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 8:59 am: |
I was scheduled to leave Boston on March 9th with AJ, I just called them and they already had cancelled that flight. While I held, they were able to book me on an American flight thru San Juan, but said the return flight on AJ had not changed?! Not sure why that is!
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By mary pequinot (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #419) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 10:40 am: |
How much more inconvenient is the new flight, and how much more did it cost?
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By Susan Taft (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #440) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 1:16 pm: |
I called Air Jamaica this morning to check my mid April flights from Boston to Bonaire and was told that all were still scheduled.
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By Joanie (BonaireTalker - Post #15) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 3:14 pm: |
Just checked the flight tracker, it looks like the mbj to bon flight today, was cancelled. Delta has the same information. Has anyone heard anything on this flight?
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By Nadine Rubin (BonaireTalker - Post #92) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 4:40 pm: |
I just got off the phone with their local office in Maryland. I cancelled this Sat tkts and re-booked for mid April and our July trip. So far, they are still flying from Baltimore. I think they are cutting flights from airports that have multiple daily flights to Mobay. But the MoBay to Bonaire cancellation doesn't make sense...unless they combined it with the flight to Curacoa, then going on to Bonaire. Maybe we need to get hold of TCB and Bonhata and anyone else responsible for airlift into Bonaire and make them aware of this. Really complain. It seems to me it is their responsibility to fight for the flights. They keep track of the markets and how many people come from what areas.
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By Sue Goodman (BonaireTalker - Post #78) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 4:48 pm: |
ugh - this is stressing me out. Looks like the early JFK & Newark flights operated on time today, but the Philly flight was 5 hours late. Also no flight to Bonaire.
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By Sonya S (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #3) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 5:41 pm: |
Hi Mary
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By mary pequinot (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #423) on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 7:27 pm: |
It sounds very stressful. I hope it works out and, of course, you will have a WONDERFUL trip!!
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By Joanie (BonaireTalker - Post #16) on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 12:55 pm: |
Spoke to AJ last night, they told me their planes are flying close to normal with some delays. I asked about a flight we are taking from ewr on wed 2/16 they tell me it's fine. I did check the flight from Bon to mbj yesterday, and apparently they changed the flight number to the Cur flight number and it did fly. Hope this helps all flying AJ to Bonaire.
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By Carole Baker (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #4671) on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 1:05 pm: |
Joanie, I wonder if that means the MB to Bonaire flight will now stop in Curacao first? Hmmmmm.
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By Joanie (BonaireTalker - Post #17) on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 1:57 pm: |
Carole, I don't think it's a normal flight pattern, but yesterday they did do that. #64 mbj, cur #65 cur,bon,mbj. On Wed #19 to ewr from mbj went thru philly then onto ewr. So it appears that day they doubled up on some flights. I hope as you do it goes back to the normal flight schedule. I really like flying on AJ. Got my fingers AND toes crossed.
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By Sue Goodman (BonaireTalker - Post #79) on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 11:15 pm: |
One of my co-workers was vacationing in Jamaica last week & his return flight on Sunday went MBJ-EWR-Boston. He said the Boston people were really annoyed, as they had to de-plane & go through immigration (not customs though) in Newark in order to get back on the plane.
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By Carole Baker (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #4675) on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 11:44 pm: |
Thanks, Joanie.
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By Brian O'Donnell (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #9) on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 9:36 am: |
Sue,
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By Sue Goodman (BonaireTalker - Post #81) on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 11:42 am: |
Brian,
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By Sue Goodman (BonaireTalker - Post #82) on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 11:44 am: |
Brian - why are you flying from Newark if you live in Cold Spring? JFK would be alot closer.
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By Brian O'Donnell (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #10) on Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 5:26 pm: |
Sue,
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