I'm glad that she made it. I just looked up the crew (flt 1099) but unfortunately I didn't recognize anyone I knew. I was encouraging to see that the plane was completely full. I didn't even bother to check the NY weather, was it that bad???

Apparently JFK was ok but the delay was getting out of IAD for some reason. It was a long day; we just woke up.

Do you wanna say that the NY area has TOO MANY airports?

A solution to the crowded airspace would be to cut the number of departures and arrivals allowed (slots). To make up for the loss, you could increase aircraft capacity (Airbus 380 anyone?).

Well, I did end up going with US Airways, and I got in much earlier. I live in Southeastern CT so it is always a toss up between JFK/LGA and BDL. I got into BDL just fine. The first time my plane was delyed was weather, the second was a faulty flight computer and the third was weather. Forturnately US Air has several flights that have connections to BDL from CMH. Overall I am now flying US Air, though I am still taking B6 to Florida on vacation. I think they delays have been part the fact that the B6 hub is JFK, which is in a delay prone area and the fact that E190 is new and buggy.

Btw, the most recent issue of Consumer Reports, which ranks JetBlue as the top airline in the country, also rates JetBlue's on-time record as "above average." This is based on the percentage of survey respondents who reported a flight delay of 1 hour or longer. I found this interesting since JetBlue on-time performance has generally been below the industry average as reported by the Department of Transportation. The survey was also conducted before the February meltdown. However, if you look in the DOT site where they break down delays by cause, you'll see that the vast majority of JetBlue's delays are weather or ATC-related, or due to late arriving aircraft, which is the domino effect. They have a low incidence of "airline-related" delays, especially compared to some of the express carriers, many of which have a greater incidence of at-fault delays than ATC/weather delays!

Over the last few weeks JetBlue's on-time performance has been above 85%. I flew JFK-BOS-JFK this past Tuesday (day trip), and both flights arrived 20 minutes early at both destinations.

It looks like as long as the weather is decent, so is JetBlue's timeliness.