Well, we are getting close to 8 weeks to our departure. Actually, it will be 8 weeks from this afternoon/evening when we leave home and head for the Syracuse Airport Best Western so we do not have to get up at an ungodly hour in the morning to get to the airport by 5am for our 6:30am departure on May 1st. It’s over an hour drive to the airport, so that means we would have to get up about 2am to leave home around 3:30am. At the hotel, we can get at least an extra 2 hours sleep, needing only an hour to prep and grab some breakfast at the breakfast bar, which opens at 4:30am for early travelers.

Continential DHC-8 Q200

Now to the topic of this post… I just did a little research on our planes for this flight… Oh, boy… The commuter planes we are flying in and out of Syracuse on are both operated by Continental and are the same or similar model as the plane that crashed on approach to Buffalo… The flight out of Syracuse is a DHC-8 Q200 as pictured here. The flight back to Syracuse is the same model as the one that crashed, a DHC-8 Q400, which is a larger capacity model than the one pictured. The return flight is also departing Newark, NJ, the same airport that the crash plane departed from… The only thing in our favor is that there should be no snow and ice in the middle of May. However, we did awake to 4 inches of snow the morning after our wedding (May 12, 1996)!