JerseyVics
Apr 2, 07, 10:57 am
Just wanted to post my experience flying Jet Blue to Phoenix last week.
With all the posts knocking the airline I must say that I'm glad I booked them for this trip because it was simply all I expected and more.
To get some things out of the way first I must say that I was disappointed in the fact that they charged me to switch a flight. I booked the cheaper of the two direct flights from JFK to PHX, but intended to go standby on the early one. Well it turns out that the connecting flights between JFK and PHX (either Boston, Washington D.C. or Long Beach) are considered "previous" flights too so I had to pay $25 to have a confirmed seat on the 8am departure. No big deal.
On the return trip, the weather was beautiful both in Arizona and New York but the flight was delayed a good two hours. Luckily the customer bill of rights worked out well for me, because before I could even complain on the boards or directly to the airline they send me an e-mail with a $50 bux credit, so it took care of my earlier $25 expense and gave me that much for the next flight... Cool beans! Now why would I complain? you might ask, its common for flights to be delayed... Well what got me was the fact that while waiting I called the 800 to check the status of the flight and the customer service rep told me that the flight left the gate and returned because of technical difficulties. At the moment I thought she lied to me, but thinking about it now I think this happened to the plane in NY the same plane we were waiting for in Phoenix. No harm done...
The flight itself was really just what I expected of Jet Blue, comfy seats, good entertainment channels, cold Arizona ice tea, it was great! On the return trip I changed seats to 2A from my booked row seat, which was nice except the woman sitting next to me made me real nervous when she started freaking on take off and then said she wasn't feeling so good. I scrapped my plans to catch some Z's on overnight flight because I was on puke patrol. But luckily she changed seats to somewhere in the back of the plan and I ended up sleeping for a few hours.
Phoenix wasn't my original destination. I put over 2250 miles on the rental car driving up to the Grand Canyon, the Hoover Dam, Las Vegas strip, Shelby USA headquarters, and a bunch of towns on the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. I even went to Tijuana, Mexico for a couple of minutes but ended up standing in line for 2 hours getting back into the US of A. It was incredible. The area that I liked the most was Tempe (yes, they should change the name to Tempeeee cause thats how it's pronounced, I used to call it Temple, but there's no "l" in it) and Scottsdale. Of all the places I've been to, Scottsdale was fantastic, real impressive. I ended up going to the Pavilions car show on Saturday night and there was a ton of classic and exotic cars there to enjoy. The highlight of the trip was the Heart Attack Grill in Tempe, I couldn't find the damn place so somehow I stumbled on the Cardinals Cheerleaders rehersal, there was a couple of dozen of the hottest chicks I've seen in a while.
Very cool trip, and I'll be booking them again shortly to use up that $50 credit plus two free round trip coupons I've managed to rack up so far with my True Blue membership.
--Russ :)
With all the posts knocking the airline I must say that I'm glad I booked them for this trip because it was simply all I expected and more.
To get some things out of the way first I must say that I was disappointed in the fact that they charged me to switch a flight. I booked the cheaper of the two direct flights from JFK to PHX, but intended to go standby on the early one. Well it turns out that the connecting flights between JFK and PHX (either Boston, Washington D.C. or Long Beach) are considered "previous" flights too so I had to pay $25 to have a confirmed seat on the 8am departure. No big deal.
On the return trip, the weather was beautiful both in Arizona and New York but the flight was delayed a good two hours. Luckily the customer bill of rights worked out well for me, because before I could even complain on the boards or directly to the airline they send me an e-mail with a $50 bux credit, so it took care of my earlier $25 expense and gave me that much for the next flight... Cool beans! Now why would I complain? you might ask, its common for flights to be delayed... Well what got me was the fact that while waiting I called the 800 to check the status of the flight and the customer service rep told me that the flight left the gate and returned because of technical difficulties. At the moment I thought she lied to me, but thinking about it now I think this happened to the plane in NY the same plane we were waiting for in Phoenix. No harm done...
The flight itself was really just what I expected of Jet Blue, comfy seats, good entertainment channels, cold Arizona ice tea, it was great! On the return trip I changed seats to 2A from my booked row seat, which was nice except the woman sitting next to me made me real nervous when she started freaking on take off and then said she wasn't feeling so good. I scrapped my plans to catch some Z's on overnight flight because I was on puke patrol. But luckily she changed seats to somewhere in the back of the plan and I ended up sleeping for a few hours.
Phoenix wasn't my original destination. I put over 2250 miles on the rental car driving up to the Grand Canyon, the Hoover Dam, Las Vegas strip, Shelby USA headquarters, and a bunch of towns on the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. I even went to Tijuana, Mexico for a couple of minutes but ended up standing in line for 2 hours getting back into the US of A. It was incredible. The area that I liked the most was Tempe (yes, they should change the name to Tempeeee cause thats how it's pronounced, I used to call it Temple, but there's no "l" in it) and Scottsdale. Of all the places I've been to, Scottsdale was fantastic, real impressive. I ended up going to the Pavilions car show on Saturday night and there was a ton of classic and exotic cars there to enjoy. The highlight of the trip was the Heart Attack Grill in Tempe, I couldn't find the damn place so somehow I stumbled on the Cardinals Cheerleaders rehersal, there was a couple of dozen of the hottest chicks I've seen in a while.
Very cool trip, and I'll be booking them again shortly to use up that $50 credit plus two free round trip coupons I've managed to rack up so far with my True Blue membership.
--Russ :)