The quickest commute to Manhattan by land, sea or air takes simply 20 seconds to catch wind.
That’s how lengthy Tailwind Air’s Cessna Grand Caravan seaplane wanted to begin its climb excessive over the Seaport.
The bumper-to-bumper site visitors is another person’s downside as you start a 1-hour journey to New York City that brings you a couple of docks down from the United Nations.
“Wow! What a view,” a touring companion mentioned because the amphibious turboprop swooshed down on the East River with the majestic skyline climbing excessive like metal sequoias.
Tailwind Air is the one service allowed to land in Boston Harbor — they usually plan on increasing their fleet this summer time.
“We hope to keep on growing,” mentioned Tailwind Air co-founder Peter Manice, including that flights to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard are on the horizon. They already supply journeys out of Plymouth, Provincetown, Boston, East Hampton, N.Y., NYC and Washington, D.C.
With the pandemic lastly easing up, site visitors jams are returning with a vengeance — particularly in New York City and Boston. Seaplanes seem like the long run, and they’re right here now.
A one-way Tailwind flight from Boston to Manhattan runs from $395 to $795, relying on whenever you e book. The firm gives applications for frequent fliers, and you should buy books of tickets. They take the winter off from late December to mid-March.
Kids, pets, sightseers, theatergoers, enterprise vacationers, leaf-peepers and all others are welcome and reward playing cards can be found. You land so near Broadway, you could possibly come dressed for a present and arrive in minutes when you hail a taxi.
Tailwind additionally companions with Omni Hotels — Omni Berkshire Place in New York City and Omni Boston Hotel on the Seaport. It’s a synergy geared toward attracting the VFR crowd — these visiting mates and kinfolk.
The Omni Berkshire Place is near all of the motion, from 30 Rock to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Radio City Music Hall.
If the climate turns dangerous, Tailwind’s Cessnas can take off from Logan Airport or land at Norwood Airport.
For one-off journeys, all of the pilots want is a lake or clear spot on the ocean to plunk passengers down in the event that they need to constitution a flight. David Ortiz and Pedro Martinez did simply that when Big Papi wanted a journey to the Hall of Fame induction ceremony in July, Manice mentioned.
“In New England, we can go just about anywhere,” he added.
Taking off and touchdown in each Boston and Manhattan is exhilarating. Along the best way you see central Massachusetts, the Connecticut River, and Long Island Sound earlier than the skyscrapers convey you house.
You choose up the ferry on Fan Pier within the Seaport and board the aircraft on a dock within the Harbor not removed from the Logan runways. Soon all boats ease out of the best way and snap photographs of the seaplane because it soars into the sky.
That’s the final site visitors you’ll see — apart from a couple of geese — till you hit the docks.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”