Why are airlines allowed to not be responsible for your lodging or rebooking your connecting flight when the delay/cancellation is due to weather?
This is a HUGE loophole that I think needs to be changed!
I was recently appalled when I arrived at the airport to check in and was told by the agent that:
1) I would miss my connection because of the several hour weather delay at the current airport
2) The airline would not rebook the connection when I missed it (through no fault of mine) even though my reservation was flagged by them hours prior to my flight because of this issue
3) They could not book me on another airline (as they are legally obligated to do) because other airlines wouldn't accept other companies' reservations except as standby because they wanted to save those seats for their stranded/delayed customers
4) The airline would not pay for or arrange lodging for me in either my current city or connecting airport's city..........even though in either case THEY could not fly me out until the next day - even to a nearby destination instead of my original
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Beach Fanatic
Per Wikipedia:
Profitability is a technical analysis term used to compare performances of different trading systems or different investments within one system.
Scooterbug, I'm not sure how to take this...
Based on reading your many posts on SoWal I know that you are quite bright and reasonable.
So I am surprised that what i believe is happening is that you are busting my chops over the fact that I used the word "profitable"/ said the words- "maintain profitability"?
You and John both know that the basis of my point is that the airlines won't be changing policies anytime soon to help you out when the weather is bad because it is all about the Benjamins.
Cheers, g
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SoWal ExpertAuthor
Actually, I was letting John R know it WAS a real word, not busting your chops.
Beach Fanatic
I really don't understand why people fly commercial unless they are crossing the pond.
Is flying private affordable, compared to commercial?
How do you find private flights going where you need to go?
SoWal Expert
Is flying private affordable, compared to commercial?
How do you find private flights going where you need to go?
No, and I think you have to charter a jet, or own one yourself. The cost of the fuel alone is enough to break the piggy bank. Growing up, a friend of mine had his own single engine piece of crap plane. His dad owned a nice jet. Let's just say that the town where I was raised was rather small, and everyone knew everyone. My friends Dad, thinking he was being generous, offered some parents of another friend to be able to fly up to Annapolis to visit their son who was in the Naval Academy. They took that offer, having no idea about the cost of aviation fuel, and the low gas mileage of a jet. Taking the offer of the jet saved them from driving three hours to Atlanta and all of the travel woes of Delta or Eastern. They loved the idea, until they received the bill for the gas. Shocker. They could have flown commercial several times for the price of the fuel. Point of the story is that it may be cheap or expensive to fly private, the judgment depends on the fatness of one's bank account.
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