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Watch: We Go From New York to Boston and Back on a Seaplane

FLYING Travel Editor Jonathan Welsh tries out Tailwind Air's new seaplane shuttle service.

Jonathan Welsh

Monday, April 04, 2022 at 10:37 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

Tailwind Air has launched its full season of direct seaplane flights between New York Skyports Seaplane Base and Fan Pier in Boston Harbor.
The service offers a convenient dock-to-dock transit time of an hour and 25 minutes.
`FLYING` Travel Editor Jonathan Welsh has tried the service and reviewed it.

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Tailwind Air, a Part 135 seaplane operator, began its first full season of flights between New York Skyports Seaplane Base (6N7) and Fan Pier in Boston Harbor in late March. Flying direct from the easily accessible base at the east end of 23rd Street, the company touts transit times of an hour and 25 minutes, dock to dock.

FLYING Travel Editor Jonathan Welsh had to give it a try.

Jonathan Welsh

Jonathan Welsh is Lead Editor of Aviation Consumer and a private pilot who worked as a reporter, editor and columnist with the Wall Street Journal for 21 years, mostly covering the auto industry. His passion for aviation began in childhood with balsa-wood gliders his aunt would buy for him at the corner store. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @JonathanWelsh4