JetBlue JAX to San Juan

[ben says]

Is this flight dead? Searched a dozen sets of dates throughout this summer and can't find anything direct...

If they canned this that'll suck 

[simms3]

If you can't get a direct from JetBlue's website, it's dead.

[fieldafm]

Is this flight dead? Searched a dozen sets of dates throughout this summer and can't find anything direct...

If they canned this that'll suck 

It runs seasonal(winter) now. No summer direct flights.

[spuwho]

Is this flight dead? Searched a dozen sets of dates throughout this summer and can't find anything direct...

If they canned this that'll suck 

My wife tried to use this flight several times but it was either full or too expensive.

Seems Delta lowered their price on Jax-San Juan via ATL. Corporate travel started forcing her to use Delta over JB and so she stopped checking.

Problem is the Delta flight takes too long.

[ben says]

If you can't get a direct from JetBlue's website, it's dead.

Not always true. Seasonal availability, or only running certain days of the week could have been the answer. Turns out, per fieldafm's post, it was the former.

[tufsu1]

Jax to San Juan now goes through Ft. Lauderdale.

I am flying JetBlue to Puerto Rico next week....from Tampa!

[ProjectMaximus]

Is this flight dead? Searched a dozen sets of dates throughout this summer and can't find anything direct...

If they canned this that'll suck 

It runs seasonal(winter) now. No summer direct flights.

That's weird, cause when they announced the seasonal service last year they said they were ending the winter flights and would only do summertime.

Jet Blue will service nonstop flights from Jacksonville to San Juan only between April and September. That service will stop between September 3 and April.

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2014-07-21/story/jetblue-scales-back-flights-jacksonville-puerto-rico

[Ralph W]

There's more to Puerto Rico than San Juan. I take Jet Blue from Orlando to BQN (Raphael Hernandez -the old Ramey Air Force Base) now part of Aguadilla in the northwest corner of the island. It's a direct flight. The drawbacks are 1. It's a middle of the night flight, 2. You have to drive to Orlando, 3. The return flight is at 3 am, and the airport doesn't have a jetway. No big deal.

Park your car in Orlando at Xpress Valet Parking for $3.99 per day ($4.99 if you don't reserve online) and they deliver you via shuttle right to the curbside checkin. They park and retrieve your car at a much better price than others we've used or researched.

Car rental is right there at BQN. All the usual plus Charlie. Drive to San Juan, if you must, but why not see another, less traveled part of the island?

Stay at the Mariott Coutyard right there, two minutes from the airport or many others close by. If you are current or retired military or DOD you can rent a whole house or just a room on the Coast Guard section of the airport. Our room in one of the MWR rental facilities was only $45 per night - the Mariott is over three times that rate and you still have to bring your own washcloth.

The Mariott has a casino... Bit of history-the Mariott is the former Ramey AFB Hospital and the casino is located where the maturnity ward was. Babies born there on base are affectionately known as Casino Babies and the Ramey Air Force Base Historical Association (of which I am a member) presents "Casino Baby" certificates of birth.

[ben says]

There's more to Puerto Rico than San Juan. I take Jet Blue from Orlando to BQN (Raphael Hernandez -the old Ramey Air Force Base) now part of Aguadilla in the northwest corner of the island. It's a direct flight. The drawbacks are 1. It's a middle of the night flight, 2. You have to drive to Orlando, 3. The return flight is at 3 am, and the airport doesn't have a jetway. No big deal.

Park your car in Orlando at Xpress Valet Parking for $3.99 per day ($4.99 if you don't reserve online) and they deliver you via shuttle right to the curbside checkin. They park and retrieve your car at a much better price than others we've used or researched.

Car rental is right there at BQN. All the usual plus Charlie. Drive to San Juan, if you must, but why not see another, less traveled part of the island?

Stay at the Mariott Coutyard right there, two minutes from the airport or many others close by. If you are current or retired military or DOD you can rent a whole house or just a room on the Coast Guard section of the airport. Our room in one of the MWR rental facilities was only $45 per night - the Mariott is over three times that rate and you still have to bring your own washcloth.

The Mariott has a casino... Bit of history-the Mariott is the former Ramey AFB Hospital and the casino is located where the maturnity ward was. Babies born there on base are affectionately known as Casino Babies and the Ramey Air Force Base Historical Association (of which I am a member) presents "Casino Baby" certificates of birth.

Good advice. Trying to go check out the Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, and Condado Vanderbilt. Was going to go next weekend but, alas, no direct flight and connecting kind of kills the schedule I had planned.

[tufsu1]

Good advice. Trying to go check out the Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, and Condado Vanderbilt. Was going to go next weekend but, alas, no direct flight and connecting kind of kills the schedule I had planned.

I stayed at the Renaissance La Concha a few years ago.  This time I'm trying the Condado Hilton (which used to be branded as a Hilton Conrad hotel)...it seems far nicer than the Caribe Hilton on the other side of the channel.