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Flying in the day of the cruise used to be common because there were more airlines (and empty seats) than grains of sand on the beach.
Now that the airlines are dropping like flies, merging, etc.....pilots are being stretched to the limits....equipment being stretched to the limits....and then throw in weather and a terror "event" (even just a prank call) and it can all go "south" quickly.
The only time we flew in the day of the cruise as a family of four was when we cruised out of San Juan several years ago. We booked the air through Carnival.
(They booked it through Northwest).
Reader's Digest Condensed Version: An airbus full of cruisers went out for maintenance before they left Memphis. Thankfully, we got to the airport before the rooster did and a wonderful ticket agent got us 4 first class tickets on American. Others were not so lucky. Friends of ours did not arrive until the first port after we had been at sea for a day.
Even with that wonderful agent...we still only had 30 minutes to spar when we stepped on the ship.
Never again!!!
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