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air tran?

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:37 pm
by bill
has anyone ever flown Air Tran. they have some really good deals to cities within the u.s. thanks .. :?: i can use them to fly to florida and then get a flight from another carrier to St. Thomas.

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:49 am
by GidgetPicklebrain
I fly AirTran from BWI to Fort Myers, FL a half a dozen times since January. I have never had a delay and have landed early frequently, both directions. I always use carryon only so can't speak to their baggage handling at all.

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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:20 pm
by bill
thanks Gidget do you fly into tortola?

Re: air tran

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:35 pm
by promoguy
bill wrote:thanks Gidget do you fly into tortola?
If you mean by her mention of BWI in relation to British West Indies????

BWI is Baltimore.

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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:13 pm
by bill
thanks promo guy. i was surprised when gidget said bwi - just thinking in the caribbean state of mind. tortole didn't really make sense.

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:33 pm
by Jan&MikeVa
Hey Gidget,

We fly AirTran fairly often, have for several years. Mostly to Florida and once to Boston. We have NO complaints and have NEVER had a problem.

The only thing that bugs me a little is their fare specials are not offered very far out in advance. We could have gotten a great deal a couple of weeks ago to STJ for our December trip. Someone had air out of MIA for 183.00 and AirTran had fare out of here for 98.00. But the fare was only good for about 5 weeks, 1st part of October I think.

Hope this helps....

Jan (aka Charlie)

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:50 am
by GidgetPicklebrain
I should have been less vague - BWI is Baltimore.

Yes, the fares do tend to fluctuate a lot. They are generally at their lowest about 4 - 6 weeks ahead of your travel date. Right now they are having their annual "Fall Fare Sale" and I got a one way to Fort Myers for $59.00 in early October - I haven't looked further out than that because this will be (hopefully) my last trip down, I'll be driving my folks permanently North.

Then I can start planning to travel to places *I* want to go (like STJ) again. Hooray!!!!