It's time for a game we've played before, folks: Why is it so damned annoying to book decent flights from Ft Myers, Florida*, to Syracuse, NY?
*RSW is my closest airport, an hour away. Next closest would be Punta Gorda, but flights from there go to smaller cities instead. Fort Lauderdale is easily two hours away, not counting rush hour and accidents, and the last half hour is through ungodly east coast traffic. And even from there, there aren't many nonstops.
(You may remember my mother's "I-grew-up-in-Syracuse" answer: They don't make it easy to get there because they know no one goes to Syracuse unless they have to.)
There are essentially no nonstop flights. There are and/or have been some on bottom-of-the-barrel discount airlines, the kind that fly one flight a day, a few days a week, but not on 'real' airlines.
Layovers are either ridiculously short (I saw one for 34 minutes!) or insanely long (no one wants to spend 6 or 7 hours at JFK). I want a layover that's long enough to be realistic, meaning probably 90 minutes at the very least, but not more than three hours. Ideally not more than two hours, but you can't find that, either.
Flights tend to either leave at 6 AM, or get in after midnight---and how could they help it, after that 6 hour layover?
I want to go. I want to visit my aunt and go to Apple Festival. But I have to gripe a bit before I get over this annoyance and book the least bad itinerary I can find.
Stupid travel industry. I need teleportation.
Oh man do I feel this. My daughter's flight was supposed to get in at 12:30 tonight. Delayed, now 1:30 a.m. But it was the flight she could get. And that's with landing in San Francisco!
ReplyDeleteLook, I am SO FAR AWAY FROM AIRPORTS. I hate it so much. Some of my friends travel so often (like Tiffany - she goes to Vegas MULTIPLE TIMES A YEAR) and I don't understand how they do it with the annoyingness of getting to airports!!
ReplyDeleteI want teleportation, too. I hate to travel.
When I lived in Charlotte NC and it was a hub for USAir, it was so easy to get everywhere. I want that back!
DeleteThat sucks :( I wish I knew enough about commercial transportation to explain it, but I don't! I'm glad you're still gonna go.
ReplyDeleteWhen they know you're going to go anyway, there's no reason for them to make it easy, I guess.
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