If I recall correctly, during preparations for FC97 Vince Cate
contacted American and they were willing to add extra flights between
San Juan and Anguilla if there was demand for them. I think they
wanted a faxed request indicating the expected number of passengers.
Vince, can you confirm this?
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> Getting to San Juan is easy. But there aren't many airlines flying from San
> Juan to Anguilla. Come to think of it, with LIAT gone, which airline other
> than American serves the San Juan - Anguilla route?
>
> Anyway, if you somebody should find themselves having troubles finding
> flights into Anguilla, you can always fly to St. Maarten and take the ferry
> to AI. (At least during day-time hours).
>
> --Lucky
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 23:07
> > To: R. A. Hettinga; Lucky Green
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Boston flights to FC00
> >
> >
> > That may be right -- I just got off the phone with American.
> >
> > The bottleneck seems to be San Juan, and American will happily fly you
> > there on many available flights. You'll just have to switch to another
> > carrier once you get that far. TWA apparently offers codeshare
> > flights, for
> > instance, so the situation isn't *quite* that dire.
> >
> > For Washingtonians, American offers a direct flight from San Juan to BWI,
> > leaving Anguilla circa 3 pm and arriving BWI circa 9 pm.
> >
> > -Declan
> >
> >
> >
> > At 01:35 2/8/2000 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> > >again. As a result, all of American's flights on several days either side
> > >of FC00 to that part of the world are completely booked, especially to
> > >Anguilla, where American has virtual monopoly on airline traffic. I'm
> > >being told that this is exacerbated by the fact that it's President's day
> > >weekend, as well...
> > >
> > >So, with all that, it may very well be that these 5 seats available
> > >through American Express are the only seats left going anywhere *near*
> > >Anguilla for that period, from Boston, or from anywhere else...
> >
> >
> >
>
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