A388 From Netherlands Antilles, joined May 2001, 9130 posts, RR: 13 Reply 2, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 1162 times:
Thanks for the info MAH4546. Any chance Spirit might go for CUR as well as part of their 10 destinations they are looking for to expand in the Caribbean and South America?
UALFAson From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 590 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 1144 times:
I, too, am surprised it is Saturday only service. Seems like there would be more demand or that they could stimulate more demand with their low fares. Heck, even United operates 3x weekly IAD-AUA service and they can't make anything in the Caribbean work!
I went to Aruba last summer for a week. It may have been my best vacation ever. Beautiful beaches, friendly people who speak English, you can pay with U.S. dollars, and you can even drink the water. Sounds like the perfect vacation spot for lazy Americans!
I think there is a mindset that Aruba is exotic and expensive, but I found it to be a great value for the money.
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A388 From Netherlands Antilles, joined May 2001, 9130 posts, RR: 13 Reply 4, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 1129 times:
Quoting UALFAson (Reply 3): I went to Aruba last summer for a week. It may have been my best vacation ever. Beautiful beaches, friendly people who speak English, you can pay with U.S. dollars, and you can even drink the water. Sounds like the perfect vacation spot for lazy Americans!
I think there is a mindset that Aruba is exotic and expensive, but I found it to be a great value for the money.
I went to AUA this last december for a weekend to do some aircraft spotting and it was great. On saturdays there is an aircraft taking off or landing every 15 minutes of which 90 percent originate from the United States. The airport even has its own dedicated U.S. immigrations terminal so AUA is very well known among U.S. citizens. I don't think AUA is known as an expensive holiday destination. It is very well known in the United States, particularly in the East Coast.
About Spirit starting a single flight per week may have to do with them observing the market and seeing how it plays out before they introduce more flights. Jetblue did the same for almost a year and now they have two flights on weekends and will introduce more flights (if they haven't done so already).
2travel2know From Panama, joined Apr 2005, 3580 posts, RR: 4 Reply 5, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 1118 times:
That's a flight that won't be needing F.I.S. upon arrival @ FLL.
For what I've noticed about AUA airport, it seems that Saturday afternoon all the gates are transborder gates with pre-cleared U.S. bound flights.
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31155 posts, RR: 76 Reply 6, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1083 times:
Quoting A388 (Reply 2): Thanks for the info MAH4546. Any chance Spirit might go for CUR as well as part of their 10 destinations they are looking for to expand in the Caribbean and South America?
Those ten destinations will be selected among cities that apply for the service, so if CUR applies, it sure might be considered.
Also, to clarify, Spirit will choose "up to ten destinations", not necessarily ten destinations. They might not feel ten of the proposal are sound enough.
AUA747 From Aruba, joined Jul 2006, 136 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1066 times:
I think its a great move from Spirit to start AUA. Eventhough I have heard that Spirit at FLL is a bit of a mess and that the customer service overthere is terrible. Personally I have never flown them, so I might have to jump on the inaugural flight to try them.
On another note I think, in order for this route to be succesfull NK need to have at least three weekly flight. A positive aspect of this is that AA is getting some competition, hopefully AA will lower their fares to MIA.
Quoting UALFAson (Reply 3): United operates 3x weekly IAD-AUA service and they can't make anything in the Caribbean work!
Since its low season they operate 3 weekly flights, two from IAD, one from ORD. During high season they have 5 weekly flights.
Quoting A388 (Reply 4): About Spirit starting a single flight per week may have to do with them observing the market and seeing how it plays out before they introduce more flights. Jetblue did the same for almost a year and now they have two flights on weekends and will introduce more flights (if they haven't done so already).
At the moment B6 has two daily flights out of JFK and Saturday service from BOS, which will be three weekly in high season.
SHUPirate1 From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3661 posts, RR: 18 Reply 8, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 1038 times:
Quoting AUA747 (Reply 7): customer service overthere is terrible
By design. They don't hire people with good customer service skills. The second one touts their customer service skills in an interview with them, and it seems that they might be able to back that up, their resume goes into the circular file...
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Silentbob From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 1665 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1011 times:
Quoting UALFAson (Reply 3): I went to Aruba last summer for a week. It may have been my best vacation ever. Beautiful beaches, friendly people who speak English, you can pay with U.S. dollars, and you can even drink the water. Sounds like the perfect vacation spot for lazy Americans!
The water in Aruba is better than the water in most US cities and the local beer is quite good as well. Mmmmm Balashi beer, time to book a return trip.
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