We have had a change in our itinerary since American Airlines has cancelled our flight. Prior to the earthquake we had purchased tickets to travel into Port au Prince on the 11th of February. After the earthquake, American cancelled all flights in and out of Haiti immediately. They expected to resume their flights in a couple of weeks. I was not inclined to believe this as the situation on the ground especially at the airport was chaotic even by Haitian standards. I decided by faith or lack of faith that the chances were very good that eventually American would cancel our flight on the 11th. So, Gail and I went ahead and were able to find seats on a plane flown by Missionary Flight International (plane pictured at left). We will fly out of Ft. Pierce, Florida to Cap Haitian on the 18th. We will be leaving on the 16th to fly into Miami with American Airlines. From there we will drive up to Ft. Pierce for the flight. We added a day in case of bad weather to insure we would not miss our connection. With all this planning and contingency planning we had 2 separate sets of paid tickets and flight arrangements. Thankfully, American did finally cancel our flight in on the 11th and we were able to get a full refund on our tickets!
In providence, Gail and I visited the hangar in Ft. Pierce this past November to see MFI’s planes. Little did we know then that we would be flying in one of their highly maintained vintage DC-3’s. This will really stretch Gail as she is not too big on flying as it is. Flying with MFI adds about 2 1/2 hours to a 90 minute trip on American including a refueling stop in the Bahamas.
To sum up, we depart Philadelphia Tuesday the 16th at 11:00 am for Miami. We depart Miami for Cap Haitian, Thursday the 18th. We will then fly Missionary Aviation Fellowship form Cap Haitian to Port de Paix that same day. (This is a 20 minute flight on a small 5 seater; Gail is going to love it!) This flight will save a 10 hour overland trip by car.
We will return on the 25th MFI from Cap Haitian to Miami and then on the 26th(in time to celebrate my daughter Sarah's birthday) we will fly AA from Miami to Philadelphia.
You can check out our blog to keep updated on what is going on as we travel. We will update it while we are there.
Pray for us this week as there still many things to do before we leave.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Travel Plans
We have had a change in our itinerary since American Airlines has cancelled our flight. Prior to the earthquake we had purchased tickets to travel into Port au Prince on the 11th of February. After the earthquake, American cancelled all flights in and out of Haiti immediately. They expected to resume their flights in a couple of weeks. I was not inclined to believe this as the situation on the ground especially at the airport was chaotic even by Haitian standards. I decided by faith or lack of faith that the chances were very good that eventually American would cancel our flight on the 11th. So, Gail and I went ahead and were able to find seats on a plane flown by Missionary Flight International (plane pictured at left). We will fly out of Ft. Pierce, Florida to Cap Haitian on the 18th. We will be leaving on the 16th to fly into Miami with American Airlines. From there we will drive up to Ft. Pierce for the flight. We added a day in case of bad weather to insure we would not miss our connection. With all this planning and contingency planning we had 2 separate sets of paid tickets and flight arrangements. Thankfully, American did finally cancel our flight in on the 11th and we were able to get a full refund on our tickets!
In providence, Gail and I visited the hangar in Ft. Pierce this past November to see MFI’s planes. Little did we know then that we would be flying in one of their highly maintained vintage DC-3’s. This will really stretch Gail as she is not too big on flying as it is. Flying with MFI adds about 2 1/2 hours to a 90 minute trip on American including a refueling stop in the Bahamas.
To sum up, we depart Philadelphia Tuesday the 16th at 11:00 am for Miami. We depart Miami for Cap Haitian, Thursday the 18th. We will then fly Missionary Aviation Fellowship form Cap Haitian to Port de Paix that same day. (This is a 20 minute flight on a small 5 seater; Gail is going to love it!) This flight will save a 10 hour overland trip by car.
We will return on the 25th MFI from Cap Haitian to Miami and then on the 26th(in time to celebrate my daughter Sarah's birthday) we will fly AA from Miami to Philadelphia.
You can check out our blog to keep updated on what is going on as we travel. We will update it while we are there.
Pray for us this week as there still many things to do before we leave.
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Gail andJeb,
ReplyDeleteThanks for giving us all a peek into your missions. Rachel and I will be following you soon as we try to make plans to get our teams into Passe Catabois in the next couple of months.
God gives us opportunities to follow him daily.
We just need to be ready and willing to go when he calls.
Larry, Paula, Elisabeth and Rachel Bailly, Snohomish, Washington
We appreciate your taking time out of your lives to help keep us in the loop. We love and miss you guys. How about adding a PayPal link, that way we could transfer funds as they come available.
ReplyDeleteJust a thought.
- The Marotta's