shadez From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 185 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 3040 times:
Gold Transportation, a NJ based charter company, will begin offering sub-daily ACY-FLL public charters in January. The service will run from Jan-April. Flights will be operated by SkyKing. Gold has launched the website http://www.flyacy.com to sell tickets. Gold operated similar public charters in the 80's and early 90's before ending them in 93. According to their website, the 1st checked bag will be free, making them an interesting alternative to NK (if people find out about them and their fares are reasonable).
N62NA From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3667 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 3010 times:
Interesting. From their website:
Gold has relationships with many Part 121 air carriers and currently utilizes three Boeing 120 passenger 737 advanced aircraft ...
and they have a picture of a 737-200. Would be great if they used such a "classic" jet!
crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1593 posts, RR: 6 Reply 2, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 2900 times:
Ironic how things can go full circle. Gold was a good part of the reason for the successful start of Sprit when they were Charter One w/ CV-580's back in the late 70's. As the DC-9's came on, they frequently served for Gold. Gold would later move on to many other charter carriers, as Spirit converted over to scheduled service. ACY was a great location in the early gaming days with DC-8, 707, 720, DC-10 and L-1011 operators bringing in the hoards of gamblers that were coming to see the Las Vegas of the East.
Kcrwflyer From United States of America, joined May 2004, 3628 posts, RR: 7 Reply 3, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 2829 times:
They seem to want $300+ one way or round trip...Unless Gold is planning on some serious junket-based gambling traffic from FLL, NK will likely kill this off.
nkops From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2543 posts, RR: 6 Reply 4, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 2668 times:
Quoting N62NA (Reply 1): and they have a picture of a 737-200. Would be great if they used such a "classic" jet
Right now SkyKing has 2 737-200's based at ACY (251TR and 252TR), so there is a good possibility it will be a 200 series.. the only other plane it would likely be is the -300 series (307WA) that goes to ACY on weekends to fill the 3rd line of flying...
United_fan From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 7157 posts, RR: 8 Reply 5, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 2642 times:
Skyking always is putting 732's into ROC from ACY. I'd pay it just to fly on a 732 ,again.
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sunking737 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 1930 posts, RR: 9 Reply 6, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 2567 times:
I hope this works out. Skyking has been having A/C issues lately with flying for Direct Air out of Lakeland Linder (KLAL) in Lakeland Fl. SY has been doing sub-service for them the last several weeks.
tjwgrr From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 2296 posts, RR: 3 Reply 7, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2518 times:
FWAERJ From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 3170 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2488 times:
I know that Gold does charters from FWA as well. Not sure which airline they use here, though. G4 and V2 also operate charters from FWA (in the case of G4, in addition to scheduled service).
nkops From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2543 posts, RR: 6 Reply 10, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 2302 times:
Quoting sbon (Reply 9): Is there a schedule yet for these 'chartered' flights?
The schedule is on the website... I actually went onto booking a res to see sked.. not too much in Jan. but seems like it picks up in Feb, Mar and Apr. should be interesting to see if it works.
Quoting FWAERJ (Reply 8): Not sure which airline they use here
Gold uses SkyKing exclusively right now... they were using Dynamic for a while, but it didn't last long, although ACY has a G4 charter this week, but not sure if its Gold or not
phllax From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 396 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 2250 times:
Quoting crownvic (Reply 2): Ironic how things can go full circle. Gold was a good part of the reason for the successful start of Sprit when they were Charter One w/ CV-580's back in the late 70's. As the DC-9's came on, they frequently served for Gold. Gold would later move on to many other charter carriers, as Spirit converted over to scheduled service. ACY was a great location in the early gaming days with DC-8, 707, 720, DC-10 and L-1011 operators bringing in the hoards of gamblers that were coming to see the Las Vegas of the East.
Was Gold Transportation the original "Florida Flights" operator from ACY pre-Spirit?
crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1593 posts, RR: 6 Reply 12, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2060 times:
phllax...I use to take the Florida Flights operation all the time, when I lived in ACY in the 80's. They were operated by many carriers including All Star, Emerald, Spirit and a few others. Passengers had to sign a TPA (Tour Participation Agreement), because even though they were advertised with the idea that they were scheduled flights, they still were considered charter flights by the DOT and required passenger protection through a bond. I have no idea though if the DOT still requires this for charter flights today. I digress, but I cannot remember if Gold was the bonded tour operator, or not. I do have a faint memory that I think they may have been though.
Gold has been the dominating tour operator for non-scheduled flights at ACY since gaming passed in 1978. Many operators have come and gone in the 33+ years since. I use to run one of the operations that ran right up against them. After competing with them for about 10 years in ACY, we folded in 1998 after a harsh winter drained or bank account paying too many de-icing bills. I do have to give them credit though, for their longevity in a very difficult, low yield market.
wjcandee From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 4553 posts, RR: 17 Reply 13, posted (1 year 6 months 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2031 times:
Quoting crownvic (Reply 12): I have no idea though if the DOT still requires this for charter flights today.
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