Trump administration is looking to cancel the Biden era consumer plan for airlines to compensate flyers ($300-$775) when they screw up your flight or cause you to miss your connection.
Europe has this and we got to use it a couple of years ago when we flew British Airways to Madrid to see our former exchange student.
British Airways was an hour and a half late arriving in London Heathrow for our connection to Madrid so they put us on a flight the next day. They had to put us up for the night and feed us.
The following day they boarded late, forced everyone to gate check the luggage and because they boarded late we missed our flight plan crossing French airspace. France was having air traffic controller strikes and delayed us to the point they had to cancel the flight.
They delivered half the luggage then told the rest of us they weren’t delivering anymore luggage that night and they would ship it to us at our final destination in 5 days. We would not be in Madrid in 5 days so this was kind of a problem. They also scheduled us on a flight the next day to Budapest and then Madrid.
We said fuck that and told our exchange student and her family to go home. See they didn’t live in Madrid and had driven 5 hours to pick us up. They had rented rooms at various historic spots so we could spend 2 days driving back to their place seeing the country. We missed all that.
Instead we spent $1000 on 5 tickets on another airline from Gatwick to the airport closest their home in Spain for 6:00 AM the following morning. Lucky for us while we were doing this they decided to deliver the last of our planes luggage.
The return flight from Madrid was also fucked as we again had a 1.5 hr layover in London and we left 45 minutes late from Madrid as they accidentally had two women with same exact name assigned to the same seat and they couldn’t figure out if they had actually passed customs.
Getting from one terminal to the other at Heathrow takes over an hour because it literally fucking requires planes trains and automobiles. We would have missed it if it hadn’t been delayed.
The one bright spot was we filed for the missed flights and British Airways payed us £600 X 5 people. Which basically payed for our flights.
Now we were supposed to get that kind of payment for airline fuckups but this administration is going to cancel it. And I’m fine with it. My family and I deserved the payout for the above cluster fuck but US conservatives do not so fuck em.
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