Thread: Planning on going to Florida from Brussels, end of March

Well, as my holidays near, I've been looking around a bit in order to make an educated decision on which route to best choose from and it seems getting from Brussels to one of the main hubs on the US East coast isn't going to be much of a problem, but thereafter! Over the weekend I've been doing some random load checking between several East coast hubs to MCO, PBI, TPA yet it seems all of the flights I could see were nearly full, so the most difficult part will definitely be getting through to MCO, PBI, or TPA.

I am actually quite stunned by the fact almost every flight I've checked from EWR, IAD etc is as good as sold out, often with tens of stby pax in waiting already: is this normal, or have I just picked an awfully bad timing?

Oh, and is it even sane as a non-rev to try to get to one of the secondary Floridian cities on a Saturday or a Sunday, or should I just forget about it and go non-stop to MIA from Europe? I'd hate it to be stuck in NY or similar for several days in a row, despite the huge amount of flights to Florida.

What do you all think?