Originally Posted by
sbm12
It is a train generally or you can walk it in under 5 minutes. Even if you take 20 minutes to get out to the curb/train and 45 minutes to get back through security (which is way more than it will take in reality) you'll still be at the gate before boarding begins on the new flight. The 1:45 is plenty of time. So is 2:03.
I would still push back that they should be able to adjust to an itinerary that doesn't create the connection time issues rather than just refund you. But suggesting that the connection time is unreasonable when you've never done it and don't know how it happens doesn't make much sense to me.
Thanks, but you know the issue: What if my arriving flight to EWR is delayed by 30 mins.? Granted, it has a pretty good on-time record, but still....
Jet Blue was willing to change my EWR-BOS to a later flight, but then I would have been stuck overnight in BOS. Never mind. The best solution would have been avoiding EWR altogether and simply doing BRU-DUB-BOS-ATL, but as explained upthread, Jet Blue said they were unable to do that due to the DUB-BOS not showing up on their system as a "connection" because the layover in DUB was 5 hrs. So I suppose this is a cautionary tale to anyone trying to book Aer Lingus and Jet Blue together on a single itinerary from Jet Blue. If I had booked the two flights separately myself, and taken the 5-hr layover in DUB, all would have worked fine.
In the end, I accepted Jet Blue's offer of a total refund, and booked a nonstop on Delta for a princely $1300. I have traveled to Brussels many times over the years, and that is the most I have ever paid. Ten years ago I could easily find a flight for hundreds less. As I suspect has been discussed elsewhere on FT, Delta seems to have forsaken leisure travelers, refusing to compete with lower cost carriers on international routes such as this. I thought I had found a good solution with Aer Lingus, but it turns out it may be more trouble than it's worth.