Originally Posted by
swingspan
Thank you so much for this. Now I need to decide if I want to take the flight now, under these circumstances, or wait for some future time.
It sounded quite fun, if you like desolate tropical islands and short field ops... fortunately no noise abatement procedures!
I have it high on my list of "maybe", but it would be a trip just to experience the flight (which I have done before on Concorde).
Being an 'east-coaster', there's plenty of tropical escapes without having to spend a day and a half getting there.