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Jet Blue to serve Puerto Plata
Hope they're serious!
I was puzzled when American Airlines discontinued non-stop service to POP a couple years ago- the plane always seemed full or nearly so. Competition on this route has been sorely needed and will hopefully save us all some cash in the long term.
I just hope their flight schedule is somewhat more friendly than it is to Santiago- not much to do when landing in the middle of the night!
Thanks for the heads up!
I was puzzled when American Airlines discontinued non-stop service to POP a couple years ago- the plane always seemed full or nearly so. Competition on this route has been sorely needed and will hopefully save us all some cash in the long term.
I just hope their flight schedule is somewhat more friendly than it is to Santiago- not much to do when landing in the middle of the night!
Thanks for the heads up!
No more mid-nighters they have a departure at 8:00 am arriving at 11:00 am daily.:cheeky:
What about gringo tourists?
POP handles zillions of them.
Why wouldn't they want to use Jet Blue into POP?
As more Americans are discovering the DR, I hope that this new route catches on permanently.
In my opinion IF Jetblue plays its cards right it might be very successful in POP. It is true that most of the customers now have no need to travel through POP (like previous posters said most go to santiago, la vega etc etc) and STI is much more convinient. IF Jetblue offers decent fares, decent schedules and promotes the destination enough I think it should be fine. Many dominicans will travel to POP if it means a cheaper ticket. Then you have the Puerto Platenos (and vecinity) that would LOVE to travel through POP direct. Puerto Plata is a great vacation spot rather than catching a plane to Cancun or traveling two hours to get to Puerto Plata after a long trip through STI, tourists will have the opportunity to be close by where they are staying. Good Luck Jetblue and I hope you stay for a long time in POP.
I know that this is irrelevant to the Dominican Republic but it is relevant to B6. Their expansion into Terminal 5 will include flights to Canada (eliminating some flights to Buffalo, and other bordering cities) Costa Rica, and the Mid West of the US (Minneapolis among others).
There just aren't enough tourists in the Greater New York region to fill the planes going to POP. I fly out of EWR (Newark, NJ) and every flight I have been on 90% of the passengers were Dominicans visiting their families in the DR, usually going to STI or SDQ. EWR has limited service to POP.
Yet it seems that half the American tourists I meet, are from the NYC area.
They're getting here somehow, and if Jet Blue starts offering a direct reasonably priced flight to POP, I'm sure they'll be using that service.
Until recently, Delta was offering nonstop service from Atlanta to POP. Now, that service is only offered from Fri-Sun during the offseason, expanding to daily service at the end of November. Hopefully, more NA flights will result in more tourists checking out the North Coast (as opposed to the twice-daily flights to Punta Cana).
I think you are missing the point. There probably will not be enough passengers to fill the plane on a daily basis. Some of them may also be getting to Sosua via STI.