Delta Changes Flights in/out of SNN

decaturdawg · Member

Delta Changes Flights in/out of SNN

Michele Erdvig · Host

Terry,

Thanks for the warning about Delta. I travel on them frequently from Altlana to Ireland. They change their schedules seasonally. I used to fly into Shannon but now do Dublin. They don't have business class anymore on their Shannon flights.

If you need any help with your change of plans, just let us know.

Michele

Dee932 · Member

Hi Michele and Terry,
I'm so sorry to hear about the flight change. Shannon is so convenient, Dublin is so big and unwieldy.

Will there be any flights left from the US directly to Shannon? I wonder about flkying to Dublin and then to Shannon, have done that a couple of times.

Dee

zoofer · Member

Be advised it's not just SNN that has been affected by Delta's schedule change. The departure time of our December 5th flight from ATL-DUB was moved back two hours, giving us a mere 30 minutes to connect from our flight from St. Louis. And our December 15th return trip was cancelled entirely!

Thank goodness I read about the Shannon schedule changes on this forum and decided to double check our Dublin reservations. A couple of phone calls to Delta's very helpful and understanding phone agents took care of our issues. The only problem they couldn't fix was our arrival in Dublin at 7 AM vs. the 9:30 AM arrival on our original flight.

I'm still wondering when Delta (or Orbitz where we made the booking) was planning to tell us about the schedule changes.

KC

Michele Erdvig · Host

Mara,

Airlines and flights are in flux. I much prefer Shannon too. We will just have to wait to see what happens.

KC,

Good thing you double checked on your flights. I wonder when they were planning on telling you too (if at all!).

Michele

Roy · Guru

Speaking of the importance of double checking flights, I have been unable to view our itinerary on the Aer Lingus website. I keep getting a message that my entry does not match our original arrival city (Shannon), so I called Aer Lingus. Oh, by the way, your 11:15 Jet Blue flight from Dulles to JFK is now leaving at 7:08 AM. Looks like a very long layover now at JFK. We are thinking of going to Flushing Chinatown for the day/lunch before our 6:30 departure. Good thing i checked on our flights.

Michele Erdvig · Host

Roy,

Looks like everyone is in the same boat. hmm

Or should I say on the same flight path. Good advice to double check all flights.

Michele

murphy · Guru

Roy, we are interested in some way to spend a 7 hour layover at JFK on Aug 5th also. We have never been to NYC before....could you tell us a little more about Flushing-Chinatown? What are the transportation options from JFK? Thanks Dan

Roy · Guru

Dan,

There is the Airtrain ( http://www.mta.info/mta/airtrain.htm ) at JFK that transports between terminals and also goes out to Jamaica where you can pick up the subway to just about anywhere in NYC. Manhattan is about an hour away. Flushing Chinatown ( http://queens.about.com/cs/neighborhoods/a/tour_flushing.htm ). From the Airtrain we will take the E subway to the 7 subway. I would estimate 30-45 minutes total at most.