PLAY airlines
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Convenience and Good Service
To be honest, the greatest part of flying PLAY was departing from a local, small airport (SWF) just a 45 minute, easy drive away as opposed to the 2+ hour horrible drive battling city traffic to get to JFK, EWR, or LGA. Public transport to those major airports requires a minumum 3 (sometimes 4) hour budget of time, multiple changes, and unreliable shuttles. Plus a full 2 hours for domestic and 3 hours for international leeway to get through potentially massive check-in and TSA lines. With online check-in, which PLAY made easy, I only needed to be at SWF an hour ahead of boarding but it took me just meer minutes to drop off my check-in bag and clear TSA. A breeze. All these advantages could have easily been undone by poor service but PLAY staff--ground and air--were wonderful. There was more leg room than I've experienced on American airline carriers and the seats were low enough for my 5' stature to place my feet on the floor. My husband and I did find the seats a bit uncomfortable. Bringing along a cusion fixed that. Even though food and drink were charged for the prices weren't exhorbitant but we chose to bring our own food anyway, paying just for water. Be warned that "budget" pricing can exceed the lower rates possible with a full service carrier such as Aer Lingus once you choose all the add-on services such as checkin baggage and seat selection with priority boarding. But you won't get any inflight entertainment, food, or drink with those prices. But we valued the enormous time saved and hassle spared by flying out of our local airport to an international destination and were not dissappointed by the wonderful service.