Avoid Flying JetBlue Into JFK—Airport Killed Curbside Rideshare, Your Trip Into NYC Just Became Miserable [Roundup]

by Gary Leff

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News and notes from around the interweb:

  • I can’t believe we are doing this again. Avoid taking JetBlue, Air Canada, and a few other carriers to JFK. To get to the parking lot at the Howard Beach station, passengers have to walk to the AirTrain (with luggage!), take the green line train to Howard Beach and exit towards Long Term Parking. Since the amount of time to get there is going to vary quite a lot, many will wait until after the schlepp to request their ride, further adding to the time it takes to get out of JFK.

  • O’Hare airport: is there any circumstance under which you would?

  • Far be it for me to criticize typos! Sort of reminds me of this, also on American.

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  • Hotel chains making rush for credit card gold (Skift)

  • IT investment at Delta:

  • I can’t believe we are doing this again. Avoid taking JetBlue, Air Canada, and a few other carriers to JFK. To get to the parking lot at the Howard Beach station, passengers have to walk to the AirTrain (with luggage!), take the green line train to Howard Beach and exit towards Long Term Parking. Since the amount of time to get there is going to vary quite a lot, many will wait until after the schlepp to request their ride, further adding to the time it takes to get out of JFK.

  • The Denver airport paid $14.5M for a glowing sign. A decade later, it’s not looking great “Malfunctioning lights, cheap-looking screens and disappointing ad sales.” Is there anything about this airport that wasn’t a white elephant from the start?

  • Qantas elite status changes letting members earn up to 140 Status Credits per year from partner spend, introducing Status Credit rollover up to 50% of excess credits (capped at 100/350/500 for Silver/Gold/Platinum) and retiring green tier. Starting 2027 they have a single higher qualification threshold (no more discount for existing elites requalifying), and they’re adding Platinum years for Lifetime Gold continuing to earn status credits. Also they have a new award search tool.

  • New Bilt Palladium Card (see rates and fees) offer for using card on food apps and partner restaurants.

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Comments

  2. Relax. If you must use a rideshare, take the AirTrain to T8, then use Uber/Lyft. Otherwise, flat-rate $70+ JFK-Manhattan via NYC Yellow Cab Taxi stand. Or take the Subway/bus. Breathe. B6 is fine.

  3. To get to the parking lot at the Howard Beach station, passengers have to walk to the AirTrain (with luggage!)

    A more civilized country would have affordable, ubiquitous “door-to-door” luggage delivery services so that you didn’t need to schlep your bags around to begin with.

  5. It’s NYC, what do you expect? You have politicians that assume people that fly are all millionaires and billionaires.

    As far as the price of booze at an airport. No one needs to drink. Given the behavior of people when they do drink at an airport maybe making the price of getting drunk off your ass sky high will stop some of that behavior. Don’t like it? Stay home and get boozed up.

  7. Who is getting a rideshare at JFK? If you have to be bougie, take Blade. Otherwise, consider the mass transit connections that will get you there faster and much cheaper than a car.

    Also, why is B6 catching strays for this? It is construction. The whole of JFK is a nightmare for cars right now.

  8. Thank you, @Brent. And, speaking of bougie… *cough* Gary… Blade… *cough*

    @George Romey — Even for millionaires in NYC, ‘the rent is too damn high!’

  9. “take the airtrain to howard beach”

    or just take it to the nearest terminal that has rideshare pickup…

    i’m not a B6 ‘fan’ but odd to say ‘avoid flying’ and then offer up only howard beach as the alternative. you offer more nuanced tips than that.

  10. I saw “B6 is fine” and momentarily wondered how they had extended that bus route to the airport. But yeah, B15, Q3, Q10, the new Q80 — all decent connections to the subway for a reasonable price. And, apparently, less confusing than dealing with a car service.

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