Fly nowhere « Little book of travel

Posted by: Kris Hoet | August 12, 2008

Fly nowhere

The experience of a lifetime? Have you always dreamt about experiencing the hassle of airtravel but without the actual travel? Then now’s your chance. Next week JetBlue offers a trip to nowhere from JFK:

“New York-based JetBlue is looking for 1,000 of its frequent flyers to show up at JFK on August 23 to check bags given to them by the airline, go through security and wait at the assigned gate for their imaginary "flight." In return, the airline is promising unspecified "giveaways," free parking and lunch.”

Free parking and lunch? I’m sure that’ll attract many frequent flyers to this event. Anyway, we all know that opening a new terminal can go totally wrong… and the new JetBlue terminal is also n°5 so they’re probably doing the right thing here. Special report from our NY correspondent to be expected? ;)

Posted in airport, bizarre, fun | Tags: jetblue, nyc, terminal, frequent, flyer, dryrun, experience

Responses

Maybe the payment isn’t very generous, but I think it is reassuring that an airlines is trying to have their proecdures in a new terminal checked out by their most critical (in both senses of the word) customers, their most regular flyers. After some of the publicised disasters with new terminal openings (esp Heathrow), I congratulate them (though they could porbably be a little more generous than a free lunch and free parking).

By: Mark H on August 13, 2008
at 3:02 am

Thanks Mark. True, like I said, they’re probably doing the right thing. Still wondering who the heck would want to part of this dry run though ;)

By: Kris Hoet on August 13, 2008
at 10:04 am

I love JetBlue! This sounds like an fun deal. I wonder where nowhere is. Too bad I don’t live in New York.

Are you planning to go on this trip, Kris?

By: Quikboy on August 17, 2008
at 11:36 pm

I never fly JetBlue, so not convinced I want to go through a dry-run of something I’ll probably not do fo real… After another BA disaster AND a Continental disaster, I’m not going anywhere near an airport unless I have to!

By: missbelgium on September 19, 2008
at 1:21 pm