MSYtoJFKagain

I bought quite a few JFK->HYA last summer right when the tickets released for under 50 bucks. After this schedule change I'm not seeing anything under $125 per leg.

Anyone have any insight?

diburning

Tickets are priced at whatever JetBlue thinks they can get for them. If they consistently filled planes last year, then they might start the prices high just to see how many they can sell before having to lower the prices.

ptownca

What dates ? I've always found this route to be pricey for the mileage involved. I'd love to fly to NYC for $100 r/t, but never seen that.

MSYtoJFKagain

I bought RT's for last August when the schedule moved and got 2 sets for ~$120 RT after taxes.

RWPrincess

I had the same issue with Syracuse last month. I used to be able to get it for $50-$60/one way and this was closer to $100/one way.

MSYtoJFKagain

Sorry for resurrecting this old thread but JetBlue ended these flights much earlier than usual this year. Last year we were booked into October but the last flights are today! I was planning 3 more weekend trips but I guess they're not bothering with the low demand after Labor Day. I figured the wedding season demand on weekends was decent but sadly not.

moondog

Speaking as a Cape Cod native, there was always a BIG drop off in tourism after Labor Day. In fact, September and October are the favorite months of many locals because the weather is still nice, but it's easy to get around.

MSYtoJFKagain

Yeah I was hoping to capitalize on the lack of traffic in Hyannis to fly a few RT's to NY but alas.

hi55us

Unfortunately it's a lot tougher to get to the Cape after Labor day and looks like Cape Air is charging a small fortune for the only commercial service from HYA to BOS. Seems like the best option for getting to the cap is taking the train or flying to PVD and renting a car.

moondog

What train are you talking about? The bus from Boston is most common/reliable way to get there without driving yourself by the way.

MSYtoJFKagain

There's a twice weekly commuter train in the summer. Lobbying has been done for higher frequency and off-season service but MBTA won't really consider it.

The HYA-BOS flights are great if you're not the one paying. ACK-JFK/LGA continues through the end of Oct but the hassle of the ferry makes the time savings a bit negligible. Apparently MVY-JFK is served by Cape Air (operating for JetBlue) through January and starts again in March. It's a Cessna so the flight is pretty long. Could be a fun one-off. Landing at JFK in a Cessna would be hilarious.

If we're actually on business travel we just drive to Logan and fly. The bus is great and cheap but if you're majorly delayed heading back to BOS you can get stranded or pay a $350 Uber.

diburning

Thrice weekly plus any sort of Monday/Thursday holidays actually. Regular schedule is Fri, Sat, Sun between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The buses (two companies) are also subsidized, and the Peter Pan bus has extra legroom and are quite fast. The advantage to the train is that it has its own bridge, so it can be faster than the bus which can be stuck in traffic on the bridge crossing the canal.

The Provincetown ferry schedules have been extended this year, so if the Peter Pan bus (the outer cape service is also state subsidized) schedule works out, you can take the bus the other way to Provincetown, and take the fast ferry (which may be a bit expensive) to Boston that way as well. The Cape Air flights from Provincetown to Boston might also be lower during the "off season". I would imagine going the other way would work as well, but if it's late night as you mentioned, then there's no good option. The buses seem to operate very often though, so between a $350 uber or waiting a couple hours for the bus to start operating again, I might be inclined to hang out at the airport for a couple hours, but that's just me.

MSYtoJFKagain

I didn't realize it was three times a week.

My wife has missed the last bus from Logan exactly once and it was quite a pain. She needed to be out here the next morning for an event so we bit the bullet on an Uber.

We love the buses though. My wife takes them at least once a week to her Boston office and it's much faster than commuting in herself. The HOV lane skip for the buses saves a solid 20-40 minutes on busy days.

moondog

I wasn't aware of the fact that they were running commuter trains, but I just checked out the schedule; I have never been on a bus that took anywhere close to 2.5 hours to travel between South Station and Hyannis. I typically avoid absolute peak times, but not always, and my dataset is quite large.

diburning

The train schedule will only improve with time. The train uses dedicated commuter equipment, and there's a cafe/bar car as well. They tried selling "business class" seating one year, but it didn't seem to catch on, and I didn't see it mentioned again, so that's probably not an option anymore. When the business class seating existed, it was an extra $10 to sit there, I think it was 2 by 1 recliner seats, but with tight legroom. The business class seating came with a light snack and a drink, and was located on the opposite end of the cafe car, and they served you at your seat.

Basically, because the train is a self-funding operation operated by two state transportation agencies, any excess income (from fares) needs to be spent or else they get less funding on their budget for the next year (similar to most other government agencies/departments). So, any surplus money is reinvested on upgrading the tracks. When the train operated during the first season, it was a bit over 3 hours long. This is because the tracks beyond Middleboro were all old freight line tracks that haven't been replaced in a long time. On the first year of operation, they were trying to figure out what to do with the surplus, so they extended the operation to Columbus/Indigenous Peoples' Day (and got close to no ridership). After the second year, they took the surplus and dumped it into track upgrades, so by now, the stretch from Middleboro to the Buzzards Bay lift bridge is now 60mph. It still takes 2.5 hours because they've added more stops since then, and the track between the Buzzards Bay lift bridge to Hyannis is still 30mph. They're probably going to tackle upgrading that track next.

I prefer the bus if it's not crowded, but if the train is running, I would probably ride the train because I would be guaranteed to not have to sit in traffic on the Sagamore Bridge.

I wonder what the loads for JFK-HYA are like on JetBlue.