Originally Posted by
meFIRST
If you are going to DXB after the DOH fight drops, those flights leave at 10PM now, so why would I want to take the 2:30PM JFK-IAD flight?. The 7:30PM flight fits nicely. If UA caves, there is a 10PM to FRA on LH and other possibilities. ( EK notwithstanding)
Now if I were to leave from EWR, the 7:30PM leave right at the SAME TIME the last flight to Frankfurt leaves, leaving me stuck at EWR. Oh well.
Sorry, but you don't keep 4 daily flights around to feed one onward departure. That's simply ridiculous.
And if things fall apart at 7:30pm you can still get to JFK for the 22:10 departure. But, again, planning the NYC operations around DXB as a destination is rather silly.
Originally Posted by
IAH-OIL-TRASH
I was definitely on a CO plane IAH-JFK some years back. Connected to the misery known as Aerolineas Argentina. Let's remember that CO did serve JFK.
Sure they did. It was so horrible in loads/yields that it was oft considered an easy upgrade for Silver elites on a 735 (8 F seats). No surprise that it disappeared.
Originally Posted by
GUWonder
How much service does JetBlue have on the IAD-JFK route?
They fly it ~2x daily.
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Flight Timetable -- JFK-IAD for date: 20141030 at 00:00 on JetBlue Airways
Carrier|Flight|From |To |Dep. Time|Arr. Time|Schedule|Equipment|Duration|Exceptions|
B6 |1307 |JFK |IAD |07:55 |09:11 |1234567 |E90 |1:16 | |
B6 |1407 |JFK |IAD |17:40 |18:59 |12345-- |E90 |1:19 |11/3/2014 |
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Despite all the hand-wringing and fretting here the market there is not particularly large. LGA isn't too far away on the NYC side and the mass transit options aren't all that much worse than JFK, particularly now with the new Q70 bus.
The IAD-JFK route was horribly unreliable. I've had agents strongly suggest that I not bother rebooking on that when other flights in the area were delayed knowing full well that it would be amongst the first to be sacrificed when further cuts were needed (and they were correct every time).
Pretending that taking the flight delayed more than half the time and an average of 78 minutes to make a ~90 minute connection to the IAD-DXB flight is about as silly as pretending that the JFK-IAD route should be kept around for the IAD-DXB feed. LGA isn't that far away and can easily absorb those passengers.