Yeah, I didn't think that title made any sense either. I've posted quite a bit about this past weekend. First I got bumped on Saturday afternoon, and then I got bumped on Monday morning. Well, my travel on Monday afternoon, from San Francisco to Chicago to Tampa, didn't come without a bit of fun. I…
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That was a serious downgrade in hotels. I stayed at the CP in January when I was stranded due to the snow storms on the east coast, and loved it.
I do not know if you are doing Crack the Case or Sweet Dilemma, but that could have helped if you stayed at the CP
I don't work for an airline, but I fully appreciate the gate agent's logic. If you had gotten the bump and the rebooked second flight had been late, you might have missed your connection. And then you're more of a problem than you're worth. I suppose the moral of the story is not to tell them that you have a connection?
I had the same experience in ORD - was flying ORD-DEN-BOI. ORD-DEN was WAY oversold (they needed about 15 and it was a domestic 777), but the agent announced that she'd only take you if you were terminating in DEN. I went up already prepared with my alternate ORD-BOI non-stop a few hours later to which she did accommodate me, but she ended up not getting enough VDBs and had to IDB at least 5 or 6. Wow...