Flying out of Worcester MA?

[clanmcculloch]

Looking at my dates for February, I see that I can fly significantly cheaper out of Worcester, MA than I can out of Boston MA or Manchester NH. It's over $100 cheaper per person and the difference in car service is only $45 so almost $400 in savings. Worcester only looks like it'll be an extra half hour max driving time from our house compared to Logan. I like the sound of all that.

So you're probably wondering why I'm questioning this. Well, there's only 1 flight per day each way between Worcester and MCO. What happens if there's a problem with the flight? I was never willing to book Direct Air and now still won't book Allegiant for this reason. But, this is JetBlue out of Worcester which is very different than Allegiant. If there's a problem, would we have the same kind of concern that we would with Direct Air or Allergiant? They're a huge airline with a large fleet of planes so they should have no problem getting a replacement plane in if there's mechanical problems, right? Flying into Boston where there are plenty of flights I know there are always other flights they can get people on if there are weather or mechanical problems but this is the only flight between MCO and Worcester that day so I'm just not sure what to think.

Am I over thinking this? Do I have any reason for concern about this being the only flight of the day?

 

[lauti]

Your concerns are still valid, with one flight a day you run the risk of a problem.

Is Providence or Manchester on Southwest doable for you? Not sure where you live.

 

[clanmcculloch]

I live really close to MHT but the flights for my dates are really high due to the entire state of NH having the same vacation week. Flying out of BOS on JB is at least $200 cheaper than flying SWA out of MHT and flying JB out of ORH is around $400 cheaper than flying out of BOS meaning $600 cheaper than MHT.

PVD is a bit cheaper than BOS but it's around I think an extra 1.5 hours away since I'm almost an hour north of Boston. I also don't think we could use a car service to PVD and I've come to really like that when flying out of BOS and would use the same service to ORH since they do drive out there and are reasonably priced.

ETA: I just checked and the car company I use for airport transportation does go to PVD. I'll keep them in mind as an option. Thank you for getting me to look.

 

[N365PA]

It doesn't really matter as to the size of a company. When I was at Delta we wouldn't just fly an empty plane to pick up stranded passengers after we went mechanical cancel. We would normally re-route passengers on other airlines etc. Now as to jetBlue out of ORH, probably a different story as there are no other carriers. I, personally, wouldn't hesitate to fly B6 out of ORH. Allegiant, DirectAir, Spirit, and soon to be Frontier? I wouldn't buy a ticket on them if my life depended on it.

Clint