Jetblue FYI

[playacaribe2]

I just booked a round trip flight with JetBlue in October for about $300 round trip. Once I selected the fair, they were nice enough to sell me a seat for another $13. There were no free seats available. I thought that type of pricing was made illegal years ago because of abuses by Spirit. If I chose not to pay the $13, do I have to stand in the back of the plane, or lie beneath the plane with the luggage?
Anyway, as far as flight reductions, I picked a random day mid January and there are 6 direct flights at a very low price, and 12 more flights with one stop at higher prices. I am not sure if that is a reduction in the number of flights from last year, nor do I know if some of those flights will be cancelled. The prices will most likely go higher as the time gets closer, so it would make sense to book now since $350 round trip is pretty good from JFK to SDQ.

If you chose the Blue Basic fare class, unless you pay for seat selection now, you would be assigned a seat on the day of travel. Note however that if you go online within 24 hours of travel, you can select a seat that might be available, exclusive of their More Space seats and Exit Rows. But this usually means a middle seat.

They are running a sale good through tonight at 11:59 for travel during their low season 9/6-11/15.


Respectfully,
Playacaribe2

 

[irishpaddy]

its worse and worse jet blue is getting .....and their mosaic staus means fuck all...in my opion

 

[Riva_31]

its worse and worse jet blue is getting .....and their mosaic staus means fuck all...in my opion

They are still having delays, but when open offers every body forget about it.

 

[BermudaRum]

its worse and worse jet blue is getting .....and their mosaic status means fuck all...IMO

I agree. Last week I was scheduled to fly out of STI at 9pm to JFK. Around 7am (some 14 hrs. earlier) that morning, I get an email stating the departure is delayed by 2 hours (11pm). Not sure how they know that so early? However, during the entire day I received 6 updated delay times, as well as one rescheduling to the original departure time.

The flight finally left at 10:30pm, and lucky for me I had 4 hrs. of waiting time for clearing immigration, rechecking my luggage, and making my connection at JFK. Please AA give me the BDA,MIA, STI connection back.

 

[PJT]

I agree. Last week I was scheduled to fly out of STI at 9pm to JFK. Around 7am (some 14 hrs. earlier) that morning, I get an email stating the departure is delayed by 2 hours (11pm). Not sure how they know that so early? However, during the entire day I received 6 updated delay times, as well as one rescheduling to the original departure time.

The flight finally left at 10:30pm, and lucky for me I had 4 hrs. of waiting time for clearing immigration, rechecking my luggage, and making my connection at JFK. Please AA give me the BDA,MIA, STI connection back.

The delay may have been due to a shortage of crew availability. The airline may know many hours in advance of who is available, who is not, and when. All it takes is a few crews to call in sick or for other reasons to upset the apple cart and the airline's day's scheduling of crews and assignments have to be modified, recovered to accommodate flights. It is a shell game on a massive scale.

Regards,

PJT

 

[william webster]

Weather delays mess up the scheduling

 

[Riva_31]

I agree. Last week I was scheduled to fly out of STI at 9pm to JFK. Around 7am (some 14 hrs. earlier) that morning, I get an email stating the departure is delayed by 2 hours (11pm). Not sure how they know that so early? However, during the entire day I received 6 updated delay times, as well as one rescheduling to the original departure time.

The flight finally left at 10:30pm, and lucky for me I had 4 hrs. of waiting time for clearing immigration, rechecking my luggage, and making my connection at JFK. Please AA give me the BDA,MIA, STI connection back.

They know because the airplane scheduled to land here arrive to JFK from another airport, if that flight is also delay affect the one coming here. One of the flights from MCO to SDQ continue to SJU and return so when that flight its cancelled also SJU its cancelled or delay.

 

[keepcoming]

When delays/cancellations happen, it can affect the whole system. Even hours before your scheduled time. It has a ripple effect. Unfortunately, it seems to be happening quite frequently lately.

 

[irishpaddy]

When i was checking in with my dog ....they needed to check the papers for my dog ( it is 3 pages ) preapproved by jet blue .....I was abandoned at the check in counter for 2.5 hours as the idiot and her two supervisors checked the paperwork....then returned after the 2.5 hours ...everything is in order you can fly ...no sorry nothing ....so much for the Mosaic Status

 

[MiamiDRGuy]

After being Mosaic status for 4 years, lot of BS they treated so I stop flying with them and I cancelled my jetblue mastercard and I switched over to American, never looked back. AA treated me better and with more respect and I decided to get the AA credit card, its way better than the crappy jetblue ones.

My last note to jetblue: Go **** yourself, you lost me as valued customer for 11 years. I'm done.

People, here including you, avoid this airline at all cost. Go fly with other airline, you'll thank yourself later.

 

[playacaribe2]

After being Mosaic status for 4 years, lot of BS they treated so I stop flying with them and I cancelled my jetblue mastercard and I switched over to American, never looked back. AA treated me better and with more respect and I decided to get the AA credit card, its way better than the crappy jetblue ones.

My last note to jetblue: Go **** yourself, you lost me as valued customer for 11 years. I'm done.

People, here including you, avoid this airline at all cost. Go fly with other airline, you'll thank yourself later.

All the airlines are having their challenges..........not just Jetblue.

But since you mentioned AA:

Family stuck in Dominican Republic calls trip a vacation nightmare

A birthday celebration for a close friend brought Robert Engelhardt and his family in the Dominican Republic has turned into a nightmare after they have been left without a flight home for several days.

www.nbcchicago.com

Airline flights are not pleasant experiences these days............and it has only gotten worse post-pandemic.

I still fly Jetblue for two reasons:

1. Direct flights to SDQ/STI/PUJ;
2. I have over a million TrueBlue points accumulated from flying and using their Mastercard......................and thus have not paid for a flight (except taxes) for several years.


Respectfully,
Playacaribe2

 

[JD Jones]

After being Mosaic status for 4 years, lot of BS they treated so I stop flying with them and I cancelled my jetblue mastercard and I switched over to American, never looked back. AA treated me better and with more respect and I decided to get the AA credit card, its way better than the crappy jetblue ones.

My last note to jetblue: Go **** yourself, you lost me as valued customer for 11 years. I'm done.

People, here including you, avoid this airline at all cost. Go fly with other airline, you'll thank yourself later.

I have an AA miles card, and buy everything with it. I've got over 300K with it now.

 

[MiamiDRGuy]

Whoever edited my recent post, next time PM me before make any changes, thanks

 

[Farmer]

Agree with everything posted. AA flight cancelled from STI to MIA recently. Saw the email when I woke up at 3am to head to STI. Rescheduled 24 hours later. Head off the next day at the same ridiculous early hour with a 4 hour layover in Miami so I'm feeling good about making my connection. Get to Miami and the gizmo passageway you disembark on stops 8 inches from the plane. Won't move. Can't open the door. We wait. And we wait. Now they are going to send a mule or something to pull the plane to a different gate. We wait on it. Then the gizmo thing comes back to life and we're good to disembark but...the person who opens the door from the outside was sent to that other gate so we have to wait for her to come back. She's in charge of making sure the correct doors and hallways are configured so that we go directly to customs and don't mix with the general public or something like that. Ok she comes and we get off. One hour and forty five minutes later. Then the automated walkways at Mia didn't work. Then the screening machines stopped working just as we were taking our shoes off. Then we were so late they had removed our luggage from the carousel and it was in a pile over against the wall. If our connecting flight hadn't also run late we would have missed it. So much for my 4 hour layover window. My problems weren't so much airline as they were Miami airport issues. What a dumpster fire. Return flight thru Newark was just as bad but that was due to the behavior of the Dominican travelers boarding there. I give it up to the flight crews these days.

 

[cavok]

It sounds like none of the $6 trillion infrastructure money has made it to MIA yet(?).