As the projected severity of the winter storm in the Northeast increases, most domestic airlines in the US have either canceled flights, or issued waivers for travel over the next few days. A bit of snow (much less a blizzard) can cause systemwide disruptions, so if you’re scheduled to travel this weekend you’ll want to…
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I missed my flight and the airlines rerouted me. Once I buy a ticket are they on the hook to deliver me to my destination or are they just being nice?
I think the low cost careers are being nicer then the stupid legacy carrier
Frontier you can rebook and must travel by Feb 28th
Spirit you can travel by Feb 11th after that date a difference in fare
This happened to us last year and we definitely learned that Twitter is the first place they announce any sort of travel waivers and advisories. Knowing that helped us jump into the phone queue seconds after they announced and we managed to make it out to Puerto Vallarta from JFK by going a day early. We accepted a downgrade to Comfort+ on the first leg of the trip just to ensure that we made it out of the snow and into the sun. Sometimes it's more important to get there than it is to get there in style.
Canceled ORD to HAV. Agent on the Premier UA desk rebooked me on AA with the flights I fed him. He didn't want to, but they had no other flights to offer and I insisted. It pays to do the homework while you hold. Data point: hold time was 43 minutes. Twitter got back to me after 4hrs!
Working on rebooking on OMA to BCN via EWR flight tomorrow. We'll see with what kind of routing I can come up with... This could be fun!
Flying LAX-JFK on Saturday connecting to a cruise on Sunday... so far they are not offering changes as far out as the 11th so hopefully we will be ok. I'll be ready with alternatives, and it is definitely no problem for me to fly into DCA/IAD/PHL/BWI/IAD or one of the 'less impacted' airports and ride Amtrak up... I doubt boyfriend will appreciate it but he'll be even more upset if we miss the cruise!
I figure this also has a potential impact on the waitlisted upgrade that looked very likely to clear; think they'll hold back J inventory to protect space for re-bookings? There were 16 open in business on our flight last night and 13 this morning. 🙁
I was at JFK and got cancelled. Calling domestic worked fine, just be quick on the dial as soon as it's announced. Also, club lounge was annoyingly backed up with rebookings. Not ideal to have to wait in a very slow moving line just to check into the lounge (American Airlines).