Need advice.
Booked a flight back in December for May, JFK-SEA. 7:30pm Friday. Return on red eye Sunday night.
Details - my wife and I prefer not to take time away from work unnecessarily. We live N of the city near SWF.
7:30 flight canceled and merged with 6:30 due to schedule change. Highly unlikely to get off work at 3 and make it to the city and to JFK in time even with no checked bags and OLCI.
Alternative - Called DL and they said could fly out of SWF due to the schedule change. For the flight out this means a connection but the timing is perfect. For the return flight the earliest we could get back is around 1:30pm, which means a whole day of vacation rather than half day.
other alternative - fly out of SWF and return to HPN. Would DL consider that? We're going to use 1/2 day vacation anyway for Monday morning so instead of taking the train from JFK to near Newburgh just take it from White Plains or have a friend pick us up.
Last thing to consider is possibilitybof voucher. From reports on here the 7:30p flight JFK-SEA is often oversold as it's operated by a 737. The 6:30 is now a 757 and the red eye the same. Think it's worth the hassle to go to JFK for possibility of voucher or the larger aircraft negates it? Any experiences of VDB from SWF?
Thanks for the tips and any insight.