I am so sad

[Lois R]

Wow Lois, that's one slow train! I guess that just leaves you American and USAir to MIA??

 

Hang in there,

Kel:)

 

Hi Kelly, yes, AA flies from here to Miami....I am still trying to decide

what to do.

[Lois R]

Silver Airways will start the route in August.

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2014/05/27/silver-airlines-flying-between-jacksonville-and.html

 

Though I'd take American Eagle and it's nicer regional jets to a nicer airport over Silver Airways to that dump known as FLL.

 

Thanks for the link:)........the dump FLL?..I much prefer it to that

bigger dump known as MIA:eek:.......

[vjmatty]

One additional thought. Spend the day touring New Orleans. Great city, especially if you go beyond just the tourist traps in the Quarter.

 

I too was puzzled by the characterization of "sitting around" in New Orleans....and I've been there twice for a week each time.

 

Miami on the other hand, I'd understand ;)

[parrotfeathers]

Southwest left Mississippi completely!! Flights weren't any good anyway.

[Zach1213]

Southwest left Mississippi completely!! Flights weren't any good anyway.

 

They're still in Jackson for a couple more weeks.

[kenish]

Silver Airways will start the route in August.

 

Though I'd take American Eagle and it's nicer regional jets to a nicer airport over Silver Airways to that dump known as FLL.

 

Silver Airways has a long history of bending safety rules, falsifying or limiting duty hour and maintenance records provided to the FAA, using trainee co-pilots where a fully qualified one was required, and has incurred some large FAA fines. A lessor took back some aircraft because the airline was not maintaining them to expected standards. I'm not saying Silver is unsafe, but they are less safe than other choices and safety doesn't seem to be "baked in" their culture. They haven't had a fatal accident and there seem to be fewer problems in the past 1-2 years. On the business side they are dropping and changing a lot of their operations and routes lately.

 

Caveat emptor, and do some due diligence. I personally wouldn't hesitate to take a flight or two on Silver but would think twice about using them regularly.

[personnext]

Thanks for the link:)........the dump FLL?..I much prefer it to that

bigger dump known as MIA:eek:.......

 

I'm not sure when you last visited, but MIA has two brand new terminals. AA flies Miami-Jacksonville and operates out of the multi-billion dollar North Concourse facility which is one the nicest in the country - great shopping and food.

 

That said, you can also now use JetBlue. They announced today that they will fly FLL-JAX twice a day beginning October 29th.

[Zach1213]

I'm not sure when you last visited, but MIA has two brand new terminals. AA flies Miami-Jacksonville and operates out of the multi-billion dollar North Concourse facility which is one the nicest in the country - great shopping and food.

 

 

 

That said, you can also now use JetBlue. They announced today that they will fly FLL-JAX twice a day beginning October 29th.

 

 

I rarely fly to from or through Miami but recently found myself transiting JAX-MIA-GRU and was surprised how nice MIA was. Shops and restaurants seemed quite nice, but I visited neither.

[Lois R]

I'm not sure when you last visited, but MIA has two brand new terminals. AA flies Miami-Jacksonville and operates out of the multi-billion dollar North Concourse facility which is one the nicest in the country - great shopping and food.

 

That said, you can also now use JetBlue. They announced today that they will fly FLL-JAX twice a day beginning October 29th.

 

I flew Jax to Miami in 2012......AA. They have those American Eagle

small planes and then they can't even dock at the terminal.....you

have to get on a shuttle after landing to get you into the terminal.

Did that change in 2013? I have flown here to there a few times

over the past few years....it was a pain every time. AA/American

Eagle has a new terminal?

For me? Ft. Lauderdale is just so easy:)...piece of cake.....off the plane,

downstairs to baggage claim...transportation just outside.

 

Looks like I have new choices.......I didn't know Jet Blue is now flying from here to Ft. Lauderdale:)

Edited May 28, 2014 by Lois R

[Lois R]

Wow Lois, that's one slow train! I guess that just leaves you American and USAir to MIA??

 

Hang in there,

Kel:)

 

Hi Kelly,:) well, the sad face is almost not there;) LOL...I have 2 new

choices......Jet Blue is flying from here to Ft. Lauderdale now and

so is Silver Airways.....(never flown with them before and their flight

is about 70.00 less than Jet Blue........)

[4774Papa]

Why don't you drive, we live North of you in South Georgia and drive to South Florida.

[Lois R]

Why don't you drive, we live North of you in South Georgia and drive to South Florida.

 

Because I no longer want to drive down. I prefer to just fly the

hour and 20 or so minutes and be there.

[personnext]

I flew Jax to Miami in 2012......AA. They have those American Eagle

small planes and then they can't even dock at the terminal.....you

have to get on a shuttle after landing to get you into the terminal.

Did that change in 2013?

 

Yes, that changed. No more buses.

 

The terminal is incredibly nice.

 

FLL is a seriously one of the worst airports in the country - Southwest uses a nice terminal, but the rest of the terminals, including JetBlue's and Spirit's, could seriously compete with many rundown air fields in Africa.

[Lois R]

Thanks for the information. No more shuttle buses for the American

Eagle flights?

News to me for sure.:eek:

 

We will just have to agree to disagree on the FLL airport. For what

I need? It has always been really good. I guess you don't like it and

that is your opinion.....that is the nice thing about opinions......we

all have them.:)

[scottbee]

B6/JetBlue will start JAX-FLL twice daily service OCT 29

 

B6 1016 FLL 0700–0814 JAX E90 Daily

B6 1316 FLL 1615–1729 JAX E90 Daily

 

B6 1015 JAX 0850–1004 FLL E90 Daily

B6 1315 JAX 1810–1924 FLL E90 Daily

[Lois R]

Hi Scottbee, thanks:) I saw that too.