Simviation Forum - Lovin' jet blue so far...

Dec 20^th, 2006 at 6:34am

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Another rather hasty business trip...have to work near Boston today, then drive tomorrow to Albany, then drive home from there.
Don't mind being flown the first leg, but why they had to book me out of JFK, i don't know... Jet Blue (the company's preferred corp.-account carrier) does in fact fly out of KEWR now. Maybe not to Boston... haven't had time yet to research that.
Had to get up at 4 to make sure the car svce got me here 2 hrs before wheels-up... ugh.

But here I am, and this being my first Jet Blue experience, I'm pretty impressed so far. Everything is just slightly different; apparently designed by humans, and not sadistic aliens. Check-in was painless. Not too busy hee this morning, but I'll bet they do well in the security "chute" when it's busy. They're very well fluffed-in here at JFK; nice little wireless hot-spot lounge area, etc. I've got my coffee, trail mix, and trashy Dale Brown novel... and, of course, the Rottycam and SD card reader... voila!! Instant ugly. Cheesy

Bear in mind I'm still technically asleep, although upright... Grin

I'll likely post some more travel photos soon in Photos... not sure if I have a window seat, so we'll see about enroute shots.

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Reply #1 - Dec 20^th, 2006 at 12:46pm

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Reply #2 - Dec 20^th, 2006 at 3:32pm

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Jet Blue is fun... My family uses them when we go down to Florida... Love them A320's

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Reply #3 - Dec 20^th, 2006 at 8:11pm

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Got my window seat; nice trip 'tho we started off pretty late. Love those little seat-back LCDs, too- fun watching old cartoons when I wasn't looking for airports out the window. Grin

Pix later... must eat now, and then sleep.

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Reply #4 - Dec 21^st, 2006 at 3:41pm

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Did you eat the blue chips Wink

I fly jetblue all the time. very nicely run and most of their pilots are navy pilots in their early 30's. Had the pleasure of speaking with one for while last year and got some shots of the cockpit. Gotta love the nice new airbuses!

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Reply #5 - Dec 21^st, 2006 at 7:30pm

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Fly2e wrote on Dec 21^st, 2006 at 3:41pm:

Did you eat the blue chips Wink

I fly jetblue all the time. very nicely run and most of their pilots are navy pilots in their early 20's. Had the pleasure of speaking with one for while last year and got some shots of the cockpit. Gotta love the nice new airbuses!

Dave

I flew Southwest with a couple ex-Navy aviators last summer (judging by the "Fly Navy" stickers on their bags when they boarded). We flew (let's see if I get this right...) Manchester to Nashville then on to San Diego. The landing in Nashville was smooth as glass and we hit the landing stripes dead center. I was amazed, I'd never experienced a landing that good before. So on to San Diego and I'm thinking "that last one was a fluke. Nobody's that smooth or that precise." Well I'll be darned if the San Diego landing was an exact photo copy of the Nashville landing. Smooth as glass and right on target. I mean it was inch perfect. I'd have been impressed if it was a Cessna 172 the guy was flying, but a 737-400?!?

I guess life gets pretty boring when you're landing one something big and wide that isn't moving.

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Reply #6 - Dec 21^st, 2006 at 7:35pm

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Fly2e wrote on Dec 21^st, 2006 at 3:41pm:

Did you eat the blue chips Wink

I fly jetblue all the time. very nicely run and most of their pilots are navy pilots in their early 20's. Had the pleasure of speaking with one for while last year and got some shots of the cockpit. Gotta love the nice new airbuses!

Dave

I brought chips with me... Grin

The skipper on this flight was an old man; mid- 30s I'd say. Grin

Nice guy. He briefed the pax in person, standing outside the flight deck door, before the flight. That was a nice touch.

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Reply #7 - Dec 21^st, 2006 at 11:07pm

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Chris_F wrote on Dec 21^st, 2006 at 7:30pm:

Fly2e wrote on Dec 21^st, 2006 at 3:41pm:

Did you eat the blue chips Wink

I fly jetblue all the time. very nicely run and most of their pilots are navy pilots in their early 20's. Had the pleasure of speaking with one for while last year and got some shots of the cockpit. Gotta love the nice new airbuses!

Dave

I flew Southwest with a couple ex-Navy aviators last summer (judging by the "Fly Navy" stickers on their bags when they boarded). We flew (let's see if I get this right...) Manchester to Nashville then on to San Diego. The landing in Nashville was smooth as glass and we hit the landing stripes dead center. I was amazed, I'd never experienced a landing that good before. So on to San Diego and I'm thinking "that last one was a fluke. Nobody's that smooth or that precise." Well I'll be darned if the San Diego landing was an exact photo copy of the Nashville landing. Smooth as glass and right on target. I mean it was inch perfect. I'd have been impressed if it was a Cessna 172 the guy was flying, but a 737-400?!?

I guess life gets pretty boring when you're landing one something big and wide that isn't moving.

Not sure if my pilots were Ex-Navy or not, but they definitely have quite a few. Even some Ex-Blue Angels there. That seriously surprised me, considering one of the reasons to go down to Florida was to see the 2005 September Air show in Gainesville for my birthday Grin

The BA's were the "Main Attraction" of it. Very friendly air crew as well.

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