Frontier Airlines New RDU flights! (Harrisburg: discount, tickets, schedule)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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I would find anything over 2 1/2 hours to be painful on Frontier but these new flights will be under that amount of time. I am not tall but the seats seem really short under your legs, hard and uncomfortable. Plus a weird curve for your back. My husband (over 6 feet) said never again for a long flight.
I still like SW Air as we can change tickets easily and/or get credit instead of a non-refundable situation. The free bag check is helpful, too, when needed but direct flights can be worth some discomfort.
I really hope Norwegian comes to RDU but they supposedly have been looking at Baltimore, Maybe we will luck out if that airport doesn't work out.
I flew Frontier from LAX to Denver and then Denver onward to RDU. The first leg of the journey was not bad at all, but the Denver to RDU flight was atrocious to say the least. Good price for the ticket but crappy comfort from Denver to RDU, I pretty much sat straight up the whole due to it not reclining at all.
The new 737-Max has a max range of 4,035 nmi which is enough to reach Shannon or Dublin, any of the London airports and just barely Paris.
Don't know where you got that number. Look at the Boeing website, Boeing: 737 MAX. Range for the 737 MAX 7 (the smallest model) is 3850 nm; for the 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9, 3550 nm; and for the 737 MAX 10 (the largest model), 3300 nm.
Although RDU-DUB is 3129 nm, that's true only if you fly in a straight line. Airlines almost never do. In particular westbounds over the North Atlantic often go way off the theoretical great circle path in order to avoid high headwinds. The 737 MAX 7 could probably work year-round, but the question is whether you can put enough people on it to make money. The 737 MAX 10 is hopeless, and too often in winter the 737 MAX 8 or 9 would have to stop westbound to refuel.
What you really want is the Airbus A321LR... plenty of seats and more than enough range to do London-RDU 100% of the time. Or the 737 MAX 7X, which Boeing has talked about for two years but not yet committed to build.
I was really excited about the RDU->BUF flights until I realized it was only like twice a week at awful times. Sorry, 6am on a Thursday isn't a time I can do a flight back to visit my parents.
I was really excited about the RDU->BUF flights until I realized it was only like twice a week at awful times. Sorry, 6am on a Thursday isn't a time I can do a flight back to visit my parents.
The only problem I have with budget airlines is that their maintenance is sometimes done on a budget. Watch "Air Disasters" on the Smithsonian Channel.
The only problem I have with budget airlines is that their maintenance is sometimes done on a budget. Watch "Air Disasters" on the Smithsonian Channel.
Allegiant has some serious issues...Frontier and Spirit not so much, they are good.
I personally will never fly on an Allegiant airplane.
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