Airtran,jetblue,or Southwest Help?

[Menteith]

I have a conundrum that I would appreciate your thoughts or comments on.
What air line would you pick, or suggest using, Air Tran, JetBlue, or Southwest?
Jet Blue and Southwest are the same price; Air Tran is slightly less expensive,
All are departing and arriving around the same time. I have accounted for seat cost, taxes, fees, ect. I believe Jet Blue is a participating air line in ME.
Please forward any comments. Thanks

 

[iluveeyore]

We have flown all three out of Buffalo - our favourite is Southwest for two main reasons - if you need to change flights, there is no fee, and their non-stop flights stay non-stop flights. I have booked with Airtran several times as a non-stop flight, and had it changed to connecting, and then had to wait two hours for a late connecting flight - not fun when you're wasting precious WDW time! Also had to pay $75 to change to an earlier flight time last year - ouch!
Jet Blue we flew for the first time this past June and were very pleased with them - kids enjoyed the two-by-two seats, the tv's to watch and the full-size pop and snacks to choose from. On-time flights and no problems at all.
Our favourite is still Southwest - have a flight booked with them this November! I did book AirTran coming home, only because it was $30 cheaper, they have ME check-in, and they had a later afternoon flight that Southwest didn't.
Hope it helps!

 

[Menteith]

Thanks for your comments; it seems that the savings of $65 to fly Air Tran is not worth the delays or changes. Thanks once again.
We are also Flying out Of Buf. May I ask if you use a park&fly lot for your car. we will be at WDW for 21 days, I know some off the hotels have some parking , but it seems not for that long.

 

[Laura.bora]

Sighhhhh - to be at WDW for 21 days! We're only going for 10! If I'm not mistaken, I believe a lot of the PArk/sleep/fly hotels will allow you to park your car with them past the normal 2 week time frame for a fee. I used buffalo's airport website(look on the right hand side, and click accomidations) and parksleepfly.com to research airports, and then checked them with tripadvisor.com

 

[cdnmickeylover]

We prefer Southwest. You also have to consider that Southwest doesn't charge for checked bags.

We've parked at the Buffalo airport using the coupon the website to save some money on the parking rate and have never had a problem.

 

[CJ]

Southwest has been nothing but wonderful for us for many many trips!

 

[iluveeyore]

We have flown all three out of Buffalo - our favourite is Southwest for two main reasons - if you need to change flights, there is no fee, and their non-stop flights stay non-stop flights. I have booked with Airtran several times as a non-stop flight, and had it changed to connecting, and then had to wait two hours for a late connecting flight - not fun when you're wasting precious WDW time! Also had to pay $75 to change to an earlier flight time last year - ouch!
Jet Blue we flew for the first time this past June and were very pleased with them - kids enjoyed the two-by-two seats, the tv's to watch and the full-size pop and snacks to choose from. On-time flights and no problems at all.
Our favourite is still Southwest - have a flight booked with them this November! I did book AirTran coming home, only because it was $30 cheaper, they have ME check-in, and they had a later afternoon flight that Southwest didn't.
Hope it helps!

I know I said I booked Airtran coming home - checked yesterday and they had changed my one hour layover to a five hour layover - not cool! Called and gave me a full refund. Checked on Southwest, had a flight only an hour sooner but non-stop, gets me home three hours sooner and saved $36 for two of us - so my choice will always be Southwest from now on!!!!

 

[maryliz]

I know I said I booked Airtran coming home - checked yesterday and they had changed my one hour layover to a five hour layover - not cool! Called and gave me a full refund. Checked on Southwest, had a flight only an hour sooner but non-stop, gets me home three hours sooner and saved $36 for two of us - so my choice will always be Southwest from now on!!!!

That is my only complaint about AirTran ... they did this to us. And then we were delayed due to waiting for a new flight crew to arrive to take them to Buffalo, and they did not even update the flight delay in Buffalo. My DH and the kids could have gone to eat and come back ... but because they didn't know we were delayed by a couple of hours, they sat around the airport waiting.

I will say that I did LOVE the DME airline checkin for coming home. Not having to drag our luggage thru the airport to check it in was FABULOUS! But SWA will always be my favourite because we've never had any issues with them whatsoever.