On a recent trip to London, I made a mistake. The choice then became how we all get to London and the answer was: separately.
However, getting to Boston would require a positioning flight. In the past, my habit has been to position us in the city the night before, just in case something came up. However, with Frankie (our two-year old) in the mix and a lot of luggage for a longer trip, the trek in and out of the city was more arduous than it normally would be. We also wanted to reduce our transit time with him as he is very different from his docile sister.
I had a choice between JetBlue at 2 pm giving us more than seven hours in Boston on the day of travel, or just under four hours. Boston to Pittsburgh is blocked at 1:45 and that seemed to be an overestimate based on recent examples of actual take-off and landings. I felt that nearly four hours in the airport was enough, and about the right amount of time to manage him before we were all too exhausted to think.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on Live and Let's Fly.
