AllyReggie
Turkey Leg Hunter
- Joined
- Apr 21, 2013
Booked a flight with AA after serious research, planning and prep. We are flying in September, so there is still plenty of time before our trip, but our Reservations and Hotel Accommodations have been booked for some time.
I am not one to sweat the small stuff, but this feels more like a big issue than a small one, anyone here have any experience getting compensated for major flight changes?
Original Flights:
To WDW:
Depart @6:00P Arrive 5:30A(Next Day)
From WDW:
Depart @7:30P Arrive 12:30A(Next Day)
Now both flights have been altered,
To WDW:
Depart @8:00A Arrive 8:00P (10 Hours Earlier, and arriving same day instead of next day)
From WDW:
Depart @1:30P Arrive 7:30P (6 Hours Earlier)
Maybe I shouldn't be that frustrated, but to me it is a HUGE change. We now need to schedule off from work for our departure day, which we were originally not doing, we need a hotel room that night, and we are losing 6 park hours on our departure day. We aren't gaining any park hours on the front end to make up for this as the parks will be closed by the time we could get there on our arrival day, and due to our original arrival time we were already planning on a full day of vacationing.
What would you do? I am probably going to have to live with this, but I honestly want some kind of compensation. We didn't get cheap fares and the plane was over 1/2 full when we booked. The flight we were booked on appears to be GONE and there are no similar red eye flights in existence. I am just super stressed and miffed. In order to accommodate the additional night we are re-arranging our entire trip to hopefully make the most out of a bad situation, but we were already trying to do a lot and losing hours of our vacation is not making me happy. I don't want to yell at a poor customer service rep, but I'd feel better if I knew they understood that this was a very big change that is costing us over $1000 (there are four of us plus an infant) in taking time off and hotel and my time rescheduling and trying to accommodate the change.
If it had been 30 minutes, or an hour or two one way or the other, I'd have shrugged it off, but this is a lot more than that. Am I right in thinking I should call and get compensation? Or do I need to suck it up buttercup?
I am not one to sweat the small stuff, but this feels more like a big issue than a small one, anyone here have any experience getting compensated for major flight changes?
Original Flights:
To WDW:
Depart @6:00P Arrive 5:30A(Next Day)
From WDW:
Depart @7:30P Arrive 12:30A(Next Day)
Now both flights have been altered,
To WDW:
Depart @8:00A Arrive 8:00P (10 Hours Earlier, and arriving same day instead of next day)
From WDW:
Depart @1:30P Arrive 7:30P (6 Hours Earlier)
Maybe I shouldn't be that frustrated, but to me it is a HUGE change. We now need to schedule off from work for our departure day, which we were originally not doing, we need a hotel room that night, and we are losing 6 park hours on our departure day. We aren't gaining any park hours on the front end to make up for this as the parks will be closed by the time we could get there on our arrival day, and due to our original arrival time we were already planning on a full day of vacationing.
What would you do? I am probably going to have to live with this, but I honestly want some kind of compensation. We didn't get cheap fares and the plane was over 1/2 full when we booked. The flight we were booked on appears to be GONE and there are no similar red eye flights in existence. I am just super stressed and miffed. In order to accommodate the additional night we are re-arranging our entire trip to hopefully make the most out of a bad situation, but we were already trying to do a lot and losing hours of our vacation is not making me happy. I don't want to yell at a poor customer service rep, but I'd feel better if I knew they understood that this was a very big change that is costing us over $1000 (there are four of us plus an infant) in taking time off and hotel and my time rescheduling and trying to accommodate the change.
If it had been 30 minutes, or an hour or two one way or the other, I'd have shrugged it off, but this is a lot more than that. Am I right in thinking I should call and get compensation? Or do I need to suck it up buttercup?