Travel Thread

[NTP66]

Looking at trips I have routinely taken:

PHL/SAV: $230 > $394
PHL/OGG: $750 > $861

So this is 10 years ago vs today? Or what? Because if it's 10 years of price change, the first is more than the rate of inflation, the second is less.

Those prices are 8 years apart.

[NTP66]

Also worth noting that Preferred/Premium seating has gone up significantly in that timeframe, too, along with more seats being labeled as Preferred (for AA).

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Wake me up when this turns out to have any relevant teeth whatsoever.

so while I think it’s good that a statute like this exists now, I agree with you only because if a customer still takes the original flight, even if it’s delayed 3+ hours, they likely won’t be eligible for any cash

so if I’m on a flight that gets delayed 6 hours but I can’t/dont want to rebook because the other flights are more expensive, I’m kind of **** out of luck


a rule like this needs to exist for bare minimum consumer protection but I’d be surprised if I ever actually received compensation for this

[skullman80]

Because I felt like spending money today and the upgrades weren't awful I upgraded out flights both going to and coming back from Jamaica to First Class/Business Class. I think I have everything else taken care of. C5 forms are done, our passports are good, got transportation arranged to and from the resort etc. This kind of snuck up on me...only a couple weeks away.

[NTP66]

AA changed our return trip from Kansas to late afternoon, which IMO is always a risk in late summer with their storms. Called them and had them rebook us on an earlier flight. Initial flight was on an A319, which is like the red headed stepchild in Airbus, and the new flight is on an E175. Normally, I'd not be thrilled about this, but their MCE seats are superior to those in the A319.

[Shyster]

The A319ceo was actually quite a popular aircraft, with over a thousand sold. Three of the four largest operators of the type are American, United, and Delta (EasyJet is the fourth). It's basically a victim of the general up-sizing for narrow-body aircraft, because the A319neo has barely any orders—62 orders for the A319neo as opposed to 4,000+ for the A320neo and 6,000+ for the A321neo. One can see the same thing going on for the 737MAX, where other than Southwest hardly anyone has ordered the MAX 7 and most orders are for the larger variants.

I would say that the true red-headed stepchild of the A320 family was the "double shrink" A318. They only built something like 80 of them total, and only something like four airlines ever operated them. Most were sold through the Airbus Corporate Jets program as business jets for government customers and the like. Airbus didn't even bother offering a neo version of the A318.

[NTP66]

We took our annual Bronx Zoo trip today, and the weather couldn’t have been more perfect. All of the animals were out and about, just a good time.

That said, what in the ever loving **** is going on with the GWB and I95 just north of Newark? We spent 45-60 minutes more in the car each way because of the absurd traffic. Thirty minutes alone just getting out of the Bronx to the entrance of the GWB.

[dodint]

You're not in traffic, you are traffic.

Maybe they were all going to the zoo.

[NTP66]

I asked a buddy of mine who owns a produce delivery company in NYC, and he laughed at me and told me that it's like that non-stop now. Construction that never ends. It doesn't help that getting onto the GWB while leaving the Bronx, trucks have to use the upper deck, which is the left two lanes, and they all seem to enter the freeway directly in front of the bridge entrance, so they have to cross two lanes to get over, which is just a nightmare.

[tifosi77]

Have you ever driven north across the Fort Pitt Bridge

[NTP66]

Have you ever driven north across the Fort Pitt Bridge

Yes, and that is nothing - nothing - compared to NYC traffic. It's not even remotely close.

[nocera]

Driving to NYC and then complaining about the traffic is like eating Taco Bell at 2am and complaining about getting the shits. It comes with the territory.

There must be a couple train options from Philly to NYC.

[NTP66]

The Bronx, not NYC. If this were the Central Park Zoo or something, I'd have driven to Trenton and taken Amtrak directly into the city. At any rate, whatever.

[tifosi77]

Um.......

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

there's a weird group of people who only consider Manhattan proper to be NYC

not sure what's worse: that or people who think upstate NY starts in Yonkers

[RonnieFranchise]

Yeah I mean where the hell do you think you are? It's all New York, including Staten Island leading up to the VNB.

We tried to get to Connecticut from the BK on the BQE last August and I'm pretty sure my ass is still sitting there in the rental car.

[NTP66]

I make this trip every year, and it has only been like this the last two. It’s all NYC, but my complaint was centered on the GWB and the construction that apparently is never going to end. So yeah, Of cOuRsE tHeRe’S tRaFfIc.

[dodint]

I wonder if there was something unique about 3 years ago...

[meow]

Maybe they were all going to the zoo.

[dodint]

Ah man that's great, thanks.

[meow]

no one, and I mean no one, likes a zoo more than ya boy. I play that gif in my head and then this one every time we go to one.

[NTP66]

Source of the post no one, and I mean no one, likes a zoo more than ya boy.

My wife would fight you for that title, and win. If you've never gone, traffic notwithstanding, do yourself a favor and go to the Bronx Zoo. It's the best zoo in the country, period.

[NTP66]

I wonder if there was something unique about 3 years ago...

Been going since 2013, so even ignoring the covid years, it's the construction on/near the GWB. It's almost like the subbed out the work to PennDOT.

[skullman80]

Source of the post no one, and I mean no one, likes a zoo more than ya boy.

My wife would fight you for that title, and win. If you've never gone, traffic notwithstanding, do yourself a favor and go to the Bronx Zoo. It's the best zoo in the country, period.

My wife would fight your wife and meow for that title. Anywhere we travel the first place she looks for is a zoo nearby.

[Beveridge]

Taking the kids to King's Island and Cincinnati zoo end of month. Anyone ever been to Cincy zoo and got tips (outside of don't go to Ohio or Cincy)?