AirTran

[jwnandsn]

Recently flew AirTran from Flint, MI for our Dec 7-20 trip on the recommendation of I think it was Mike using this forum.

What great advice! We really enjoyed our flight down and back. The airport at Flint was so easy and convenient and the AirTran staff are so friendly and layed back. My Husband and I both agreed that our flight down was the smoothest flight we have ever experienced.

We went down the day before to Flint and enjoyed a day at Frankenmuth and a wonderful chicken dinner. We stayed at the Red Roof Inn just off I-75 (not sure we will use them again though - was looking for a cheap room but think next time we will upgrade a little). Our flight left the next morning at 7:30 a.m. and we were in Orlando before 10:00 a.m.

We have decided that we would much rather travel 2 hours to Flint than 2 hours to Toronto and the flight cost was a whole lot cheaper too.

Thanks to all those who advised regarding the use of AirTran. The information was very much appreciated.

Thanks again,
Sandra and James

 

[billygoat]

glad you had a great flight with airtran, i live in sarnia and have flown from flint before and will be flying airtran out of flint to orlando my self jan24

 

[MikeJ]

Glad it worked out so well. I would second the comment about the motel. We stayed at the Econo Lodge across the street from the airport, and it was pretty grungy. Clean, but grungy, if you know what I mean. I'm not sure we'd stay there again.

If I had my choice, I would like to see direct *scheduled* flights from YXU to a number of southern destinations. If I could fly direct from London I would do it in a minute. There are some charter flights to Cuba and the Dominican, but they only operate seasonally. And given the large number of people in the area who already fly from YYZ or DTW, I would think there would be money to be made in direct flights from London.

- Mike

 

[Cruisin' Krause's]

We live in YXU, and had FNT recommended last year by a colleague who travels a lot.
We 're flying Northwest end of this month (see below) and got rates comparable to Air Tran, and NW has 1 set of direct flights to MCO each day.
The prices from FNT (even if routed via DTW) still seem lower than direct from DTW.
Hope everyone has a good vacation.
Cheers,

Richard et al.