Flight Change
So we got both good and bad news about the flight home from India today. The good news, we’re on the direct flight home, which is nice, it is shorter then the one with the layover in London, and since the layover was so short it wasn’t really worth the stop. The bad news is it gets in 12 hours earlier then our flight with the layover. Now this won’t be bad news, if we didn’t now have a 15 hour layover at JFK. Which so isn’t going to happen, there is no way Desmond will survive 15 hours at JFK let alone me and Dan.
Our options are to change our flight with Delta which is a $50 fee for each ticket, to try standby, which may or may not be the same fee or a $25 fee, hoping that Delta doesn’t raise their fees in the next 2 weeks, rent a car and drive home or pay for Amtrak tickets and just abandon our tickets home on Delta. All three will likely cost about the same, since with Amtrak we don’t need to get Desmond a ticket, he’s under 2, we can’t use the car seat anyways, and the seats are large and it being a train he can walk around which he’ll love. We figure we’re going to wait until we land and figure out which option to take from there. We are 99.9% positive the option will not be renting a car, because we really don’t want to drive 5 hours home after being on a plane for 15+ hours and being jet lagged.
I have a feeling the train may end being our top option, except the bus ride to the train is 2 hours before we get on the train, so that maybe pushing it a bit for Desmond after a day on a flight already. It costs almost exactly the same for either the train with the bus to it or the plane change fees, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens when we arrive and if there are any ticket even still available on an earlier flight when we get in.
On the plus side we’ll be arriving home around 5pm most likely, which is much nicer then the midnight we were expecting.