Norse Atlantic swaps Fort Lauderdale for Miami

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• Alex G says:

  1 Jun1 June 06:43

  Fort Lauderdale is a destination in its own right (unlike Gatwick or Stansted), and a major cruise port. Pity Norse is axing the direct flight.

  • The real Swiss Tony says:

    1 Jun1 June 07:00

    Yep, I felt the “like STN” analogy was rather misguided, too…

    • zapato1060 says:

      1 Jun1 June 07:38

      Geographically, its actually bang on. FL airport is bliss and much less manic than Miami’s Zoo and I dont mean the ones with the animals.

    • Rhys says:

      1 Jun1 June 08:26

      Virtually any airline that can get slots at Miami drops their FLL service.

    • Paul says:

      1 Jun1 June 09:03

      100%. Would rather fly into FLL any day rather than MIA. Better positioned to get out to the rest of Florida, nice small-ish airport and great beaches on the doorstep.

  • Richie says:

    1 Jun1 June 08:02

    Is JetBlue’s rumoured FLL-LGW service starting soonish ?

  • Andrew. says:

    1 Jun1 June 08:31

    It’s looking like a considerable mistake for the airport/port operator not to have worked with Brightline and have the Fort Lauderdale Brightline station at the airport (the line passes in front of the terminal and under the runway) instead of downtown Fort Lauderdale.

    • Mike says:

      1 Jun1 June 12:09

      Yes, the lack of a Brightline terminal is a massive miss. The Americans, quite frankly, don’t think like us as far as public transport goes. Additionally, Brightline is more of a property play, like railways were here a century or more ago. Looking a where Brightline West stops on the way to Vegas show how bonkers they are. That said, I wish them luck as I want to get trains rather than fly.

      • zapato1060 says:

        1 Jun1 June 14:13

        Area is so expanse but when you see drive thru ATMs, you know your never seeing a changed mentality on public transport. Also less chances of inadvertently lowering their infamous waist lines.

  • NorthernLass says:

    1 Jun1 June 09:51

    Indeed, my first thought is why would anyone want to fly from MIA?! Though on reflection, I suppose there are so many onward connections from MIA that there’s potentially a lot of business for any airline which flies there. It’s a shame, though.

• Clare says:

  1 Jun1 June 07:36

  Agreed. Many choose FL over Miami as a destination for holiday never mind an airport. Clumsy analogy.

• SammyJ says:

  1 Jun1 June 08:14

  FLL is also far more useful than MIA for the Orlando crowd, which a very large proportion of travellers on these flights are, same as TPA. Very disappointed to hear this route has been pulled.

  • zapato1060 says:

    1 Jun1 June 14:14

    TPA is even better than FLL. Took 15 mins from plane > bag > street.

    • SammyJ says:

      2 Jun2 June 10:21

      Before we got Global Entry, I actively chose TPA over MCO as my preferred airport if we were going to the Disney end of Orlando!

• Chris W says:

  1 Jun1 June 09:34

  I’m curious if anyone here actually uses the twilight bag drop. I appreciate it’s a much quicker check-in time but it requires two trips to the airport, and you would need to farewell things like your toiletries the night before.

  I just can’t see any families wanting to go to an airport two days in a row.

  • Rob says:

    1 Jun1 June 11:35

    If you’re staying at the airport overnight, which is likely at Manchester if you’re flying early because the long haul fights serve a huge catchment area, you might do it.

    You just can’t brush your teeth before you fly!

    • The real Swiss Tony says:

      1 Jun1 June 12:49

      By that logic you can’t put on clean clothes or use deodorant, either. I think you’re missing the point, Rob 😉

      More seriously, used it a few years back at Gatwick when going skiing. We were staying in the bloc hotel so it made perfect sense and couldn’t have been more convenient. And for the avoidance of doubt, toothbrushes and a change of clothes were in our carry on bags…

      • zapato1060 says:

        1 Jun1 June 14:16

        Im with Chris W. Its must be very niche. However Hong Kong’s check in at central train station. Now! thats ground breaking.

        • The real Swiss Tony says:

          1 Jun1 June 14:41

          It’s good but not really ground breaking, given they had the same service at Victoria for Gatwick back in the 1990s if not before, and at Paddington for Heathrow pre 9/11…

    • SammyJ says:

      2 Jun2 June 10:24

      This is why it would be even more useful at Heathrow – the catchment area there is effectively the entire country!

  • mvcvz says:

    1 Jun1 June 12:18

    “Farewell” is not a verb.

  • Rich says:

    1 Jun1 June 14:52

    I’ve used it a few times. If you’re staying the night at the airport, you may well be passing near the check in desks anyway.

    Saves lugging bags to and from the hotel, and saves the risk of a check in queue at 6am. You just have to put a spare pair of pants in your hand luggage.

    Even better if one person can drop bags for the whole party.

  • Chrisasaurus says:

    2 Jun2 June 18:02

    You can take toiletries through security, certainly you can take toothpaste and deodorant which seems adequate to me

• vlcnc says:

  1 Jun1 June 09:41

  OT but just thought people might like to know I got my 1,000 Avios from Uber for £1.20 ticket Edinburgh Haymarket to Edinburgh Waverley 🙂

  • Mike says:

    1 Jun1 June 12:38

    I got mine 30th May, for my £4.10 journey I was doing anyway to get back from work, so nice bonus. For anyone think of using Uber to buy a train ticket and was wondering how it works. You buy in the app and the ticket is sent to your email address, so make sure you have access to your email.

• Peter Bramah says:

  1 Jun1 June 10:25

  Pride party showing as sold out now

• His Holyness says:

  1 Jun1 June 15:33

  Many brands change their logo colours for Pride month in support of the LGBTQI+ community.
  Hopefully HfP be following suit?

  • astra19 says:

    1 Jun1 June 16:01

    What does that do other than pointless pandering? If every company *has* to do it there’s no point. Much like Waitrose decking their British social media and doing… nothing for their UAE outlet, it’s meaningless.

  • Alex G says:

    1 Jun1 June 16:03

    Hopefully not.

    Its just companies jumping on a bandwagon. It’s insincere and irritating.

• Aso01 says:

  1 Jun1 June 16:48

  Thanks for posting about the pride party. Went ahead and booked some tickets this morning before they sold out. Not sure if it is a great deal, but have alot of Hilton points and had some time to fill that evening between events, so thought it was worth a try!

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