Jetblue cancels some 7:40pm flights out of MCO-JFK

[pjpoohbear]

Please check your ressie with Jetblue if you have booked a flight leaving MCO at 7:40pm. It looks like they have cancelled several days worth. Our was for the first week of May 05. They booked us for the next day (mid day), no change fee. But due to a new tax/increased tax, we will owe .40 when we get to the airport, lol.

Thankfully after I modified my car rental ressie, it stayed the same. But now I have the long weekend wait to wait for DVC MS to open on Monday, so that I can either borrow more points to add the extra night for our stay at SSR or if they have room, to change to OKW for the same number of points.

Good Luck

Penny

 

[Disney Daniel]

Thanks for the info. Hopefully these changes will not affect anyone's plans greatly.

 

[cranbiz]

Jet Blue did this to me in December, they cancelled the 8:00pm flight and replaced it with a 5:40pm flight. However, there was no fare increase. I would insist that they honor the original fare and even though it's only .40, they should eat the increase.

 

[CarolA]

The problem is that the 40 cents is taxes so you owe them. The airline collects them FOR the goverment. (For example, DL miscalucalted my taxes to Paris this winter and I wound up paying about $20 in Paris to get home LOL!)

 

[pasta37]

I'm a lot concerned about this (not the money, the schedule!) - We just booked our flights, with the return at 7:50pm on 5/14. I checked all of the days back through 5/06 and there were still 7:50 Orlando departures for all of those days? Was your flight even sooner than that??

How could they reschedule you to the next day? No reason given? Not every one can extend their vacation by a day!

 

[pjpoohbear]

1) Have no problem paying the .40 I figured it was in the taxes, by looking at my online confirmation, it took Jetblue 10 mins and putting me on hold to tell me what I already could see on my screen. Having trained to be a TA, I know that taxes have nothing to do with the airline.

UPDATE: Jetblue has at this point, 24 hours after flight change, paid for the tax difference out of a pre-paid account fund, THANKS JETBLUE!

2) I chose to book the next day, as we had plans for an event at 4pm on 05/05 which is when we would have had to leave for the airport with the new flight at 6pm. It was not a big change, but we always end our WDW vacations in the same way and if we really didn't need to change that, we weren't going to. The earlier flight from MCO to JFK on 05/05 would have had us connecting with the same JFK to BUF flight as our orginal ressie. We would now have had an almost three hour wait at JFK instead of 40 mins, with us still getting home at the same time, 11:59 pm.

So, I chose to leave mid afternoon 06/05 with a 45 min lay over (basically get off the plane, line up and get back on the same plane) in JFK getting into BUF at 6:35 pm. And as it was a cancelled flight segement, we were not charged any additional fare or change fees.

It was interesting that I was told it was a change and not a cancellation, but the flight we were moved to was already on the schedule when it was released back in October and our 7:40 pm was gone entirely, for travel to BUF from MCO, flight number and all. A cancelled flight is different than a time change.

But one could still take a 7:50 pm from MCO to JFK on all dates in May/05. But Jetblue has decided that 20 mins is not enough time to switch planes, so took that flight option away from those travelling to BUF. Leaving us with a last flight out of MCO at 6pm and a 2 hour+ layover.

Penny

 

[pasta37]

Thanks for all of that detail! I am from Buffalo, so that was even more interesting of a story for me! We now live in Syracuse and it looks like our flights will be ok then