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Re: Jet Blue/Cape Air
[Re: Winterstale]
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02/20/2021 10:33 AM
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GeorgeC1
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The Cape Air baggage issue is a fact of life for any operator using the Cessna 402 and filling most of the seats. The new aircraft Cape Air has coming will make it a non issue. The same weight issues will apply to most light twins used by the charter outfits. Carefully ask them exactly how much weight you will be allowed. CapeAir will run a baggage only flight if needed to get the bags over at the end of the day. They get there just maybe not with you! The Piper Aztec that IB uses for their 5 seater does however have a excellent useful load and should be able to carry 5 passengers and 100lbs of luggage each. They tend to cube out before they weight out on short flights. G
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Re: Jet Blue/Cape Air
[Re: Winterstale]
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02/20/2021 10:58 AM
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MrEZgoin
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We had a quote from EIS to SJU for near $2k in December.
M4000 "Lio Kai"
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Re: Jet Blue/Cape Air
[Re: Cleobeach]
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02/20/2021 12:27 PM
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sail445
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Yes, we used them many times between SJU and VG. Last year they started flying out of a private field more towards town. They offered us two prices, a lower one to take a taxi to the private airport and a higher one to fly out of SJU. We went out of thr private airport. (SJU jacked up their fees to a level Island Birds looked for other options) The small airport is called Isla Grande going through security is quick and easy, there’s very few people it’s about 15 mInutes from SJU towards Old San Juan
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Re: Jet Blue/Cape Air
[Re: Winterstale]
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02/20/2021 10:41 PM
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Posts: 8 Atlanta, GA
aero1
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We have used Island Birds several times when returning home. We often have trouble getting ferry schedules and STT flight schedules to line up. Island Birds is by far the easiest and most stress free way of connecting to your flight. You get to set the schedule (they can make recommendations about how early you need to be at STT or SJU to catch catch your flight). They shepherd you through the process at Beef Island, help you schlep your bags at both ends and walk you through customs at the destination. Private charters are not cheap but in our case we have been able to extend the fun part of our vacations a half a day or more and were a lot more confident that we would meet our flights. The flight to STT is under 15 minutes and I believe San Juan is about 45 minutes.
If other air charter companies are operating right now they may be just as good but Island Birds is who we have used and they have always managed to take the stress out of making our connections. We are going down in May for our first COVID era trip and so far I have not been able to make the scheduled airline connections work so I am sure I will be contacting Island birds soon.
Last edited by aero1; 02/20/2021 10:42 PM.
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