Review of JetBlue Airways flight F. Lauderdale Bogota in Economy

Airline JetBlue Airways
Flight B6 1557
Class Economy
Seat --
Aircraft Airbus A320
Flight time 04:35
Take-off 09 May 16, 07:40
Arrival at 09 May 16, 11:15
B6   #19 out of 94 Airlines A minimum of 10 flight-reports within the past two years is required to appear in the rankings. 60 reviews
Chibcha
By SILVER 1026
Published on 26th April 2017

Context



Hello everyone…I know its been a while, but it's been quite busy these days at work, so no spare time to finish FRs.

Anyway, here's the return report from Ft. Lauderdale to Bogotá.

You can read the inbound flight here

At FLL



Since the flight left so early I was kindly driven by my mum to the airport, which at the wee hours of the morning is a reasonable 20 minutes away from were we were staying.

FLL terminal 3, as all FLL terminals except for terminal 1 is quite drab. A bit stuck in the 90s, but it does its job.

I went to the bag drop queue, where my documents were checked and my BP was issued. Even though there was a bit of a crowd, the check in process took less than 15 minutes.

That wasn't the case with the TSA queue. While queuing I met with a friend from high school, so I had someone to chat while we waited to board.

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Our plane getting ready
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A gorgeous Airbus to Brazil
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Boarding, Taxi and Take Off



Boarding was painless and organised and in no time I took my window seat.
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The day's IFE offering would be quite limited since we were flying out of the contiguous US territory. Come to think about it…the IFE is lame on the FLL-BOG-FLL flights on this respect. Can't compete in this respect with AV, LA and AA's offering on the SoFL-BOG market.

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Boarding done, it was time to take off. It afforded lovely views of FLLs terminals and the Broward/Dade region.



On the way to Bogotá



While cruising I had access to the internet, which was useful for a couple of minutes until it was completely worthless.

Due to the ungodly hour in which I had to wake up to the airport I decided the IFE, and the meh catering didn't justify staying awake. Thus I napped most of the flight till we were basically over Medellín, the nice views made up for the lack of IFE.



Arrival to BOG



Landing was smooth and painless. One of the advantages of the flight schedule is arriving at a very comfortable time to BOG. A friend had offered to pick me up, so extra happy-points for me. The bags took their usual amount of time to show up, around 20 minutes, which made for most of the time between the plane and my friends car.

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Verdict

JetBlue Airways

5.9/10
Cabin8.0
Cabin crew7.5
Entertainment/wifi3.0
Meal/catering5.0

F. Lauderdale - FLL

6.4/10
Efficiency5.0
Access6.5
Services4.0
Cleanliness10.0

Bogota - BOG

8.1/10
Efficiency10.0
Access7.0
Services7.0
Cleanliness8.5

Conclusion

When the price is right, B6 might offer the best bang for your bucks in the highly competed Bogotá-South Florida market. That means, B6 has to be way cheaper than Avianca, American or LATAM for me to choose them.

NK is the rock bottom of the offer and I wouldn't recommend unless you're in a life/death situation. B6 offers a decent product, it will try to keep you fed, and it will try to entertain you with a fairly lousy IFE that doesn't compare to their regular offering in the US. They should work on improving that aspect in their overseas flights.

FLL was OK. When using it, try to calculate your time so you're there just the strictly necessary as it is a very boring airport, without nothing much to eat from or shop if that's your deal.

BOG did its job as usual, no complaints.

Thanks for reading, saludos!

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2 Comments

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  • Comment 395180 by
    KL651 TEAM 4534 Comments
    Thanks for this FR.
    It seems this A320 was pretty old.
    B6 might help to keep the prices low on these routes but I agree the service is superior on AV or LA.
  • Comment 395783 by
    jetsetpanda 2283 Comments
    Thanks for sharing this FR Chibcha.

    I agree with you about B6. It's a pretty decent airline that still seems to know how to treat customers compared to the U.S. legacy carriers. I flew NK once from LAX-LAS and I don't like the bare bones approach.

    See you.

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