Watertown Meetup Thread
 

Wow, everybody's still too busy trying to book tickets, I guess.
Somebody mentioned that perhaps it would be nice to coordinate the FTers travelling to and from LEB/ART/other places on the fare deal (and heck, maybe some are even staying in the area instead of immediately turning around ;) ). I missed out on LEB, but I'll volunteer for ART.

Since these are 19 seat planes to/from PIT, the odds are very good that we will be running into each other! I'm on the following, on Labor Day weekend:

Friday 9/2 #4655 (arrives 10PM)
Saturday 9/3 #4650 (departs 6:30AM) connecting to LAX (US#1)
Sunday 9/4 #54 LAX-PIT, connecting on
Monday 9/5 #4651 (arrives 10:30AM)
#4652 (departs 12:50PM)

Anybody going to be sharing space with me? I'm, regrettably, in coach (didn't find that F deal others discussed), but still should be a great time!

Anyone in May?
 

Am probably doing the run from SFO on 15th and 16th May - out Sunday and back Monday. Have booking, but not sure if I have the time on the Monday (yet).

Am going to LEB on the previous Friday/Saturday!

Aidan

I'm in Watertown on the following days... each from about 4pm to 6:30pm:
April 17th (tomorrow)
April 27th
May 4th
July 21st
July 24th

I'm in on these days:
5/21
6/25
7/16
10/15

04/17 4-6
05/01 4-6
05/20 10:30-12:30
05/22 15:30-17:30

No same day turnarounds from SAN.

We are in ART from 5:30 5/14 to 12:50 5/15. I may have bought the last ticket on this.

5204 EQM for $31.90. Times 2, as my wife is coming also.

Can someone figure the CPM on that for me? :D

Mr. SanDiego1K

June 11 - Ar 5:30pm - Lv June 12 12:40pm

July 10 - Ar 10pm - Lv July 11 - 12:40pm

For anybody who's interested in more information on the Watertown Airport:

http://archives.californiaaviation.o.../msg34226.html

Sounds charming. I'm currently attempting to figure out the best options for killing the 10PM-6AM time slot I've given myself for a layover.

5/26 LAX-PIT-ART dep 11:55 ar 10:30A(5/27)
5/27 ART-PIT-LAX sep 12:50p ar 8:24p
No room needed.
All on US

6/3 LAX-LAS(UA)-PIT-ART dep 8:30a ar 10:00p
6/4 ART-PIT-LAS-LAX(UA) dep 6:30a ar 2:54p

6/17 LAX-PIT-ART dep 11:50a ar 10:00p(hmm last flight out of PIT, maybe not so good)
6/19 ART-PIT-LAX dep 12:50p ar 8:09p
All on US

Just passing thru ...
 

I'll be passing thru on 11/11 and 11/13 ... :)

June 3 SFO-PIT-ART arrive at 10 p.m.

June 5 ART-PIT-ORD-SFO depart 12:50 p.m.

Going to visit my folks in Syracuse!! They're thrilled, plus I bought them a couple RTs to Nashville and BWI.

Windwalker...I'll see you on our puddle jumper from PIT-ART.

I only eeked out one UA segment from ORD-SFO, but it's on a 777!

For folks info, a friend of my wife's lived near ART for a few years... her hubby was stationed at Fort Drum. I emailed her for info for all of us on the ART area... here's her response.

"Yes, there is a lot of hotels in Watertown. Arsenal Road is the Watertown exit and has all kinds of hotels and places to eat, including a mall! That is the ONLY thing in Watertown."

I wonder if this terminal is going to be more like the bus station at BLF or more of a real looking airport like BKW? ;)

I've got one RT booked... weekend at IAH when the Pirates are at Houston, Aug 12-14. Going out of CRW on Fri Aug 12 CRW-PIT-ART then ART-PIT-CLT-IAH (booked in F), reverse on Sunday Aug 14. Got the first flights into ART on the 12th and last ones out on the 14th, so I avoided an overnight there, but I have the 2 hour layovers as they circle the plane around upstate NY. It was nice to get a confirmed F fare (6 segments, 4 in F) for $39.80 RT. That'll never happen again.

Only screwup we've made here is that we should have repeated this a few times to get to CP. ShellNYC pointed this out that the confirmed F fares do 2X EQM's, even on the seg's booked in Y when there's no F. So, we get almost 8K EQM out of this, not almost 4K (plus another 2K for the CRW-INT RT). Hindsight is 20-20. I could still try to book some of the transcons still listed on orbitz... would still take about 6 of them to make CP, as I don't see much more travel the rest of the year.

Mrs hiyo and I ended up with:

5/14 arr 530pm - 5/15 dep 1250pm SAN-PIT-ART-PIT-SAN
9/10 arr 530pm - 9/11 dep 1250pm SAN-PIT-ART-PIT-SAN
9/17 arr 530pm - 9/18 dep 1250pm SAN-PIT-ART-PIT-SAN
10/1 arr 530pm - 10/2 dep 1250pm SAN-PIT-ART-PIT-SAN

1st was booked on US.com, the others on Orbitz.

Will be in ART 5/6-5/7 after getting in early on the 6th from BWI-PIT and then leaving EARLY for PIT-DEN-SAN. Someone told me there is a nice cruise of the Thousand Island area - anyone tried it?

Arrive: Apr 29 10pm, Leave Apr 30 6:40am

I'll also be on same-day turnaround PIT-ART flights on Jul 18 and Jul 21.