Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016
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Several people are looking into flight and travel options for getting to Rochester, New York for MangoCon 2016. Rochester has a decently busy airport with a lot of flight options. If people post where you want to fly out of, we can have everyone discuss the best flight options for getting to Rochester.
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Buffalo and Syracuse airports are relatively close. From either you can take Amtrak to Rochester. Train time is only about one hour from Buffalo and only a little more from Syracuse. There might be car pools from either of those cities as well, I have no idea about those.
All three have some low cost flight options.
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JetBlue is the primary low cost carrier coming into Rochester.
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I'm flying United in from west Texas area.
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Drive time from Buffalo or Syracuse is also about an hour.
Of course you'd need to rent a car if you chose this route.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016:
I'm flying United in from west Texas area.
Are you already booked?
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Its kinda stupid... but it was the less stupid option for the money and flight time, but I fly west to Denver, then Chicago, then Rochester
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@DustinB3403 said in Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016:
Drive time from Buffalo or Syracuse is also about an hour.
Of course you'd need to rent a car if you chose this route.
If it were me, I'd almost certainly use Amtrak from either of those. Depends on the time of day, of course.
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@scottalanmiller Yea, booked back when I bought my ticket
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@brianlittlejohn said in Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016:
Its kinda stupid... but it was the less stupid option for the money and flight time, but I fly west to Denver, then Chicago, then Rochester
That is often how it works getting to Rochester.
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No Jet Blue from Atlanta....
United and American are the only 2 options. Now to decide where I have to change planes, because it must be a requirement that my check bag get lost on this trip... never once have I changed planes and not had my bag lost for a day or 2. -
@scottalanmiller said in Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016:
@DustinB3403 said in Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016:
Drive time from Buffalo or Syracuse is also about an hour.
Of course you'd need to rent a car if you chose this route.
If it were me, I'd almost certainly use Amtrak from either of those. Depends on the time of day, of course.
What if you wanted to travel the area or were coming in early and wanted to hang around the falls or the wineries early?
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Orlando to Syracuse is pretty cheap with Jet Blue. You can get round trips flights for less than $300
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@IRJ said in Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016:
Orlando to Syracuse is pretty cheap with Jet Blue. You can get round trips flights for less than $300
We generally fly Allegiant but I think their closest hub is Elmira. We can generally fly for ~$140 round trip.
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Awwww snap, just found the nonstop flights to Rochester. Maybe $30 more than changing planes (and sitting for 3 hours) in Newark, NJ (shudder).
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@RojoLoco said in Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016:
No Jet Blue from Atlanta....
United and American are the only 2 options. Now to decide where I have to change planes, because it must be a requirement that my check bag get lost on this trip... never once have I changed planes and not had my bag lost for a day or 2.So wear three pairs of clothing to cover you...
Three pants, three shirts, three pairs of socks, three pair of underwear......
Sure you'll be warm for the travel but you can take it off when you get to the hotel.....
LOL
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@coliver said in Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016:
@IRJ said in Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016:
Orlando to Syracuse is pretty cheap with Jet Blue. You can get round trips flights for less than $300
We generally fly Allegiant but I think their closest hub is Elmira. We can generally fly for ~$140 round trip.
I have flown Allegiant before, but they fly out of Sanford which is about 40 extra miles round trip for me and then you have to get from Elmira to Syracuse or in this case Rochester so it really isn't any cheaper to fly to central NY.
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@RojoLoco said in Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016:
No Jet Blue from Atlanta....
United and American are the only 2 options. Now to decide where I have to change planes, because it must be a requirement that my check bag get lost on this trip... never once have I changed planes and not had my bag lost for a day or 2.wow,.. bad luck. I've had airlines lose my bag twice, and it was on the return flight so it wasn't that big of a deal.
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@IRJ said in Flights to Rochester for MangoCon 2016:
Orlando to Syracuse is pretty cheap with Jet Blue. You can get round trips flights for less than $300
Orlando to NYC is $79 then take the train to Syracuse
