Airline changed flight time, anyone have this happen?

[pete6032]

I booked a flight to leave on a Monday morning so I could get back home and get to work, but now the airline has changed the flight to an evening flight, taking off about 14 hours later so I will miss work and have to take an extra vacation day. I plan to call the airline and ask what's going on, but its a small discount airline and they only have a few flights to my home that day, and all of them have now been switched to evening hours. Has anyone had experience with this happening, and what has the airline told you? Thanks.

 

[xeemzor]

I take it you don't fly much? This happens ALL the time.

 

[pete6032]

I take it you don't fly much? This happens ALL the time.

I fly often but I've never had it happen where it gets pushed back over 12 hours. Usually its just an hour or two.

 

[DesiPower]

They probably didn't have enough passengers and combined the 2 flights. Heard of that happening often to connecting flights from small cities...

 

[xeemzor]

I fly often but I've never had it happen where it gets pushed back over 12 hours. Usually its just an hour or two.

It depends on how many flights out of your destination. For smaller airports that could be something like 2 flights a day. If you get bumped onto the second flight for whatever reason that will cause a huge delay.

 

[jlee]

I fly fairly often (generally every six to eight weeks) and have never had a flight rescheduled by a substantial amount of time (discounting delays).

 

[Printer Bandit]

you should be compensated for that kind of ass-hattery.

 

[xeemzor]

you should be compensated for that kind of ass-hattery.

Depending on the type and length of delay you usually get a pretty sweet deal out of it. Last time I flew I get a $400 voucher for free. That, in combination with my free hotel points, usually leads to some pretty sweet vacations.

 

[smackababy]

I fly fairly often (generally every six to eight weeks) and have never had a flight rescheduled by a substantial amount of time (discounting delays).

Most I've had was like 6 or so hours (plane had a nail in the tire, and since it was a small plane they didn't have a spare on hand and we had to wait on the flight and then a new pilot...), but I don't fly out of small airports nor do I fly to locations that don't have a large amount of flights though. And, even in my 6 hours wait, they were redirecting people to make connections so they wouldn't miss their destination. I just happened to be going one way and was in no rush, so I opted to not hop around a bunch.

 

[MetalMat]

I've flown quite a bit over the past decade and I have never had this happen. Of course I've had many delays but for an airline to just straight up switch the time by 14 hours seems strange to me. I guess this can happen on the discount airlines like Frontier?

 

[Newell Steamer]

Yes, this has happened. And, airlines do not give a flying fuck.

Jet Blue pulled this same thing once, I was going to fly out of Las Vegas 8AM Sunday and I was stranded at the airport until 7pm. I never went back, or will ever go back, to Jet Blue.

 

[Ns1]

its a small discount airline.

Good luck.

 

[nickbits]

Small flight changes you are usually SOL. With a big change like that one and they should at least refund you.

 

[Exterous]

Depending on the type and length of delay you usually get a pretty sweet deal out of it. Last time I flew I get a $400 voucher for free. That, in combination with my free hotel points, usually leads to some pretty sweet vacations.

I'm not sure the actual time line but if it happens far enough in advance (72 hours?) you aren't entitled to anything other than a free re-booking on another one of their flights or a refund even if none of those are convenient for you

but its a small discount airline

Probably your issue right there

 

[Carson Dyle]

You're at their mercy. Spirit Airlines flies into the small airport in my hometown. I think they have flights to/from just a few places, like Orlando, Las Vegas, Chicago. They've been known to just flat cancel flights with little notice. See ya. Come back tomorrow.

 

[Exterous]

Yes, this has happened. And, airlines do not give a flying fuck.

Jet Blue pulled this same thing once, I was going to fly out of Las Vegas 8AM Sunday and I was stranded at the airport until 7pm. I never went back, or will ever go back, to Jet Blue.

Not the best reason to avoid fly Jet Blue as they all do it. I've had Delta, Alaskan, AA and Southwest fuck with my booked schedule. Not 14 hours but I got a notice last week that Alaskan cancelled our connecting flight in Seattle so we got bumped to a much later flight and had to cancel our plans in Vancouver

 

[marvdmartian]

I take it you don't fly much? This happens ALL the time.

It was a real pain in the ass, last year, as American and USAir were combining their schedules. Had a family vacation to Orlando, the beginning of December, and the reservations I made 3 months in advance were changed both coming and going.