New Oakland / Seattle option - but not on AS
#46
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I've now done OAK-PHX (and vice-verse) a number of times. Here are a few thoughts:
- The other major negative is the private terminal departure/arrival can create challenges. My Uber driver couldn't find the pick-up spot at OAK (didn't help that he was stoned out of his gourd).
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#48
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I was just looking at this airline today and trying to figure if it works for me, they have really upped their number of flights daily. I often fly short notice or have to change my booking by a couple of days so end up paying quite a bit. My current home is in ANC but travel to LA a bit. Looks like good options from BUR to OAK and then on to SEA.
Anyone have experience getting from Boeing Field to SEA? What are the best options shuttle, rideshare, taxi?
Anyone have experience getting from Boeing Field to SEA? What are the best options shuttle, rideshare, taxi?
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I was just looking at this airline today and trying to figure if it works for me, they have really upped their number of flights daily. I often fly short notice or have to change my booking by a couple of days so end up paying quite a bit. My current home is in ANC but travel to LA a bit. Looks like good options from BUR to OAK and then on to SEA.
Anyone have experience getting from Boeing Field to SEA? What are the best options shuttle, rideshare, taxi?
Anyone have experience getting from Boeing Field to SEA? What are the best options shuttle, rideshare, taxi?
#50
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I took JSX a few months ago on PHX-LAS and it's definitely a game changer. Total trip time was 90 minutes door to door, and I was at my dinner meeting in Las Vegas three hours after I left my house in Phoenix. Usually when I fly WN on the route it's a two or three hour trip.
Bring noise cancelling headphones though.Those E135s are loud inside.
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#58
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I can definitely see the weekend flights selling quickly once people learn of this option to LAS.
Having flown on the ERJ-140 and ERJ-145, flying on the ERJ-135 would be really cool.
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To me the most galling thing about it is that it doesn't seem like an accident that after ten years of quixotic lawsuits over this (the terms under which the US military gave the airport to Santa Monica as war surplus CLEARLY do not allow the city to shut down the airport) the city suddenly got what it wanted once the Trump administration came in--huge surprise that an administration where nobody actually cares about doing their jobs was willing to abruptly upend ten years of the federal government insisting that the city had no leg to stand on on this one. It's galling because it lets them claim a victory on something that should realistically only be viewed as a flagrant waste of taxpayer money--pretty much everyone living near the airport moved there knowing full well they were moving next to an airport, it's not like the airport was plopped into the middle of an existing residential area.