By Steve Fehr (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Thursday, December 6, 2007 - 5:41 pm: |
Hi everybody. Been a lurker here for quite awhile, years I suppose. Now I've got a problem so I thought I'd register and put this out there...
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By Don Niles (BonaireTalker - Post #40) on Thursday, December 6, 2007 - 6:37 pm: |
Steve, why don't you look into Continental Airlines out of Newark every Saturday late evening with a return from Bonaire every Sunday early morning. BWI is not that far from Newark; you could find a flight from BWI to EWR, or maybe drive the distance. Both flights are nonstop. It worked for us in October out of PVD.
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By Dr. Director (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #421) on Thursday, December 6, 2007 - 8:56 pm: |
Air Jamaica terminated its flight to Bonaire after Delta introduced a Saturday non-stop flight to Bonaire from Atlanta, starting in February. Leaves ATL about 10:50 AM and get to BON at about 2:30 PM. Leaves BON about 3:30 and gets back to ATL about 7:30 PM. Delta also added a mid-week flight as well, at least for the late Spring. Will not operate these flights from the end of August through the end of September. You might want to check this out in addition to the Continental red-eye from Newark mentioned by Don.
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By Mel Briscoe (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #155) on Thursday, December 6, 2007 - 10:18 pm: |
Steve, where are you located?
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By Ste-va-reno (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #2) on Friday, December 7, 2007 - 9:01 am: |
WOW! Thanks DR....I like that Delta schedule. I didn't know about that. That gets us into BON about the same time AJ did. I even suspect it will be easy to get a flight from either Dulles or BWI to Atlanta in time for the connection. Thats good news.
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By Dr. Director (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #423) on Friday, December 7, 2007 - 9:10 am: |
There are two Saturday morning Delta options from National (DCA) leaving at 6:00 AM (2 hour connection in ATL) and 7:00 AM (1 hour connection in ATL which seems tight to me for typical Delta connections in ATL), plus the ability to make it all the way back on return, arriving DCA at about 11:15 PM. Flying from Dulles doesn't seem to provide any morning connections. Don't know about BWI departures.
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By Ste-va-reno (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #3) on Friday, December 7, 2007 - 4:34 pm: |
Great! Thanks for that info Dr. You've been a big help! We were bummed out about the AJ flights but this seems like it will work out even better.
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By Ron Gould (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1219) on Friday, December 7, 2007 - 5:13 pm: |
Delta is almost twice the money...
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By Ste-va-reno (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #4) on Friday, December 7, 2007 - 5:43 pm: |
I see that! But I'm not completely surprised. AJ's fare was a great deal and I was always scratching my head thinking this fare is going to go up someday. I paid $698 last year, same dates. This year with Delta it will cost me $1150. I can see that. I dont like it..but I can see it with oil prices the way they are.
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By Gallus50 (BonaireTalker - Post #51) on Friday, December 7, 2007 - 10:38 pm: |
You might want to consider flying to Curacao and then taking Divi-Divi over to Bonaire. The fare to CUR is more reasonable, I think, and the cost of the Divi flight is minimal. You'll go thru Miami, but it's not usually too arduous.
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By Gallus50 (BonaireTalker - Post #52) on Saturday, December 8, 2007 - 12:29 am: |
Out of curiosity, I did an Orbitz search to Curacao with some random April dates - say the 6th to the 13th. These are Saturdays - so other days might be cheaper - but American had a fare of $407 ($509 after taxes & fees). Even when you add on the Divi-Divi flight, it's still a lot better than $1109.
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By Ste-va-reno (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #5) on Saturday, December 8, 2007 - 9:28 am: |
Thats a great idea. I'm going to have to play around with that and see what I come up with.
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By Kobi in Virginia * (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3061) on Saturday, December 8, 2007 - 10:16 am: |
Steve,
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By Ann Phelan - www.bonairecaribbean.com (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #2992) on Saturday, December 8, 2007 - 10:17 am: |
Please know AA's prices fluctuate daily. I added Yapta to my computer. I enter my chosen flights and am notified of price changes. Some dates for a client in Feb. have gone from 800-491 back and forth sometimes twice a day!!! It pays to register for www.yapta.com.
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By Kobi in Virginia * (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3064) on Saturday, December 8, 2007 - 10:26 am: |
Steve,
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By Ste-va-reno (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #6) on Saturday, December 8, 2007 - 5:17 pm: |
Thanks to y'all...we explored our options and found flights from BWI to Curacao for $454 pp round trip. The hop over to BON was pretty cheap and flights leave pretty regualarly. However the return trip is a little screwy so we may have to work on this one a bit.
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By greg maloney (BonaireTalker - Post #32) on Sunday, December 9, 2007 - 9:45 am: |
I will miss AJ fights. Maybe if enough people call AJ. they will reinstate the flight to Bonaire. We flew from atlanta to montego bay to bonaire. It was great. Deltas fares a very $$$. we flew free on AJ.
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By Ste-va-reno (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #7) on Sunday, December 9, 2007 - 7:00 pm: |
Thanks Ann for that Yapta Info. I will Register. We did go ahead with our Airline tic's with AA so it will be useful; as you said to watch for fluctuations.
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By Deborah Bennett (BonaireTalker - Post #86) on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 12:05 am: |
it is probably even cheaper to get a flight to aruba and take the DAE over. Round trip from Aruba to Bon is $184.
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By Ste-va-reno (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #8) on Monday, December 10, 2007 - 4:54 am: |
Hey Greg...
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