By Don Freeman (BonaireTalker - Post #36) on Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 8:40 pm: |
So, I've been checking airfare to Bonaire from Pittsburgh for October 18th. Delta wants almost $1200 per person ! Continental is less than half of that. Now, I'm not crazy about the arrival and departure times for Continental, but for half as much, I guess I can live with the lousy times. Actually I think we will leave on Oct 17th ( a Friday ) instead. That way we will be on Bonaire at 5:15 Saturday morning, can take a short nap, and still do the orientation dive at 9, and have the whole day to dive. The only thing that concerns me is being able to have our room when we arrive.Most people dont leave Bonaire till Saturday, so I'm wondering if we would even be able to have our reservations start on a Friday, to insure that our room would be ready for us. Has anyone ever done this? The thing that really surprises me is that the Delta flight is almost full. Only like 6 seats left in coach.
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By David Kaye (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #217) on Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 10:08 pm: |
It's possible that Delta, with an almost-full flight, isn't interested in selling the remaining few seats at a discount. Most of us travelers choose discounted fares; the full fare comes as a shock to us.
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By R J (BonaireTalker - Post #38) on Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 10:34 pm: |
I think David is on to something.
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By Kyle Buse (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #4) on Friday, April 11, 2008 - 11:11 am: |
I'm flying out of Atlanta in Sept for $475. I booked it about a month ago and within a week the price jumped to over $900... but in the mean time, the number of available seats went from about 50 to about 12.
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By David Ingram (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #7) on Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 10:51 am: |
Probably had a dive club book and the number of limited spots left create a supply low - demand high price point!
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By Yo MO - Meet me at the 3Day in Boston (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3440) on Monday, April 14, 2008 - 2:22 pm: |
That's why I say check going to Curacao instead and then take Divi Divi over to Bonaire. When I looked the price difference was almost $800! And the flights left about the same time.
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By Matthew Van Sickler (BonaireTalker - Post #15) on Friday, April 18, 2008 - 2:39 pm: |
I paid $700 pp with Delta and that was coming from Denver through Atlanta. I booked about 6-7 weeks in advance.
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By David Kuhn (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #5) on Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 9:20 pm: |
I found tickets on Delta thru cheaptickets.com. Only paid $707.00/ea, January 2009.
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By Denise (ParodyQueen) (BonaireTalker - Post #25) on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 5:51 pm: |
Flew from Colorado in March two weeks after Easter to Bonaire. Paid $700 each on Continental thru Houston, had the red eye, and was toast the next day. Even with sleeping on the plane.
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By Don Freeman (BonaireTalker - Post #48) on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 5:48 pm: |
I booked with Continental....Pittsburgh - Houston- Bonaire for $480 per person. Yeah, it's the red eye, and I'll probably be toast when we arrive on Saturday at 5:15 am. The one thing I did though, was book the Friday night red eye. We used to arrive at 3:10 pm on AJ,so I never got any diving in on Saturday anyway. I figure my daughter and I can at least do our required dive on Saturday, and sleep on the beach afterwards. That way we can start diving for "real" on Sunday. Now, if only we could make up our minds where we want to stay at this year, we'd be all set to go.
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