By alan markus on Friday, December 28, 2001 - 3:24 pm: |
Just got done talking to American who have cancelled or will be cancelling all the Aruba/Bonaire flights (for now or so they say).
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By Denise L. Kacavas on Friday, December 28, 2001 - 3:48 pm: |
alan, good luck - for sure will be worth the aggravation :-(
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By DIVER DEBBI on Friday, December 28, 2001 - 4:01 pm: |
Yeah...have the same connection change..will arrive in Bonaire 4 hours later than originally scheduled but at least still on the same day...for now. Our guests are arriving 5 hours before us at Flamingo airport, any suggestions as to what they van do untill we arrive and obtain the transportation? Is there a luggage hold area at airport ??maybe they could walk across the street to beach area for awhile
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By Jan Klos on Friday, December 28, 2001 - 6:24 pm: |
Debbi,
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By alan markus on Friday, December 28, 2001 - 6:30 pm: |
Debbi:
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 1:12 pm: |
Debbi,
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By Kay Powers on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 1:34 pm: |
We were re-routed again (3rd time)through American. New Orleans to Miami, Miami to Aruba, Aruba to San Juan, San Juan to Bonaire. Anyone know if another airline flies from Aruba to Bonaire? Doesn't make sense to get to Aruba and then fly to San Juan to get to Bonaire! I can already sense the need for rum punches.
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 1:52 pm: |
Kay,
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By Anonymous on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 5:51 pm: |
Ok so has American Eagle stopped flying from Aruba to Bonaire
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By Glen Reem on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 6:14 pm: |
Or threaten to book to/from SJU with another airline. Many go there from the US.
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By Glen Reem on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 6:15 pm: |
The Planner shows 3 airlines for the US part of the trip: AA, DL and Continental.
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By Kay Powers on Sunday, December 30, 2001 - 2:00 am: |
Jake,
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Sunday, December 30, 2001 - 11:07 am: |
Kay - there are two MIA-SJU flights each day that you could connect with from MSY. As far as SJU-BON being full - considering they only have one flight a day, and they already said they'd book you on it, can't be full (unless they aren't taking your existing reservations into account - e.g. you already have seats in your name but they're not taking that into account when checking availability).
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By Glen Reem on Sunday, December 30, 2001 - 7:41 pm: |
I wonder if there isn't also some DCE/Curacao government business in this, as I gather there was in ALM's exclusive rights to BON-CUR.
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Monday, December 31, 2001 - 7:49 am: |
May well be Glen. Bonaire's been trying to get rights via a local company to fly that route, and then lease the route to/via American, the idea being that American, one way or another, would be able to offer BON/CUR/AUA flights individually and in combination. The BON/AUA flights were supposed to be the start of that, with the BON/CUR flights to have started first on Oct 15th, then Nov. 15th, then Dec. 15th, and now perhaps sometime after the parliamentary elections in the Antilles (on the 18th of January I think).
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By Daniel Senie on Monday, December 31, 2001 - 11:23 am: |
It'd be nice if American could be talked into flying MIA-CUR-BON-MIA with the 727 they run MIA-CUR-MIA daily. That would put folks on Bonaire on a better schedule, and cut down the trip time substantially. Would be a lot easier on the ears than the ATR72 as well.
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By Kay The Maniac on Monday, December 31, 2001 - 12:14 pm: |
Jake,
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By Jan Klos on Monday, December 31, 2001 - 3:13 pm: |
I guess I am going to have to change and get a Delta credit card unless American gets their act together. Wouldn't it be nice if the Airlines just kept to the original schedules-- Most poeple booked the Aruba -Bonaire as the times were good-- now to have to scramble around last minute and rebook----We are booked on Air Jamaica and are unaffected-- but we have freinds joining us and are trying to get rebooked on Air Jamaica from AA
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