Originally Posted By magnet Take a look at this story from the Airfare Watchdog website. Has anything like this ever happened to you? Given the fact that Delta is a major carrier in the Southeast, with a major hub in Atlanta, you've likely flown on Delta at some point on a trip to Disney World. <a href="http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/AirfareWatchBlog/tabid/54/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/511/Default.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.airfarewatchdog.com /AirfareWatchBlog/tabid/54/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/511/Default.aspx</a> I recently was bumped by Delta too on a flight that I had scheduled months in advance. I wasn't inconvenienced as much as the person in the story I linked, but it seems this is becoming a more common occurrence.
Originally Posted By magnet I'll just add that after the person in question called and emailed Delta he was, in fact, reinstated to his original non-stop flight. Probably didn't hurt to post his complaints on an airline blog either....
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 They also over book their flights. How fair is that? When I've flown Delta, they tell me my tickets are non-refundable. But they can over book. Wrong way to satisfy customers.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey That's rotten. I can't believe it's legal for a company to do that in the United States.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 I had boughttickets through Delta last Christmas for my mom and sister. Well they changed dto non stop.. well ok... then when the went to check in for their flight, the crew never showed up! They had to find another airline that would take them in and get them to DFW to the nxt Delta flight. Running all theough the airport to get thier on time. It was such a big mess that they did not show up in WDW until 8:30 pm. That was 8 hours late.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder The comments were pretty interesting as well. As someone said, no wonder Delta went BK.
Originally Posted By sherrytodd This happened to me. I bought the tickets because they were super low, $129. A couple days before we were scheduled to leave I checked the flights. Without even notifying me they had switched my flight to another and here' the kicker. My connecting flight left 1/2 hour BEFORE my first flight was supposed to land. Plus I had originally booked an early morning flight so we could go to DL that day and they switched us to an evening flight which didn't get in till 9am. I called up Orbitz first which is who I booked the flight through. They said they would refund me my money and then I could repurchase the flight at a now much higher price. The lady at Orbitz had the nerve to tell me, "well what do you expect when you pay so little for the tickets." I got absolutely nowhere with Orbitz and will never use them again EVER. I called up Delta directly and raised holy hell. Fortunately I did get a very nice and helpfull reservationist and she found me a flight that landed in Ontario instead of LAX which I prefered and they booked us on that flight with no additional charges, even though the Ontario flight was now more expensive then the LAX flight. I don't know what kind of mess it would have been had I not checked my reservations the week before and showed up at the airport for my original flight.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<They also over book their flights. >> Airlines do that. Doing an online check in is a way to keep from getting bumped.
Originally Posted By magnet I've had to deal with overbooking on nearly every airline I've flown. However, Delta has been the only one so far to actually call me on their own to move me from one flight to another weeks in advance of the flight. I would never have known, apart from an email, that the flight would have changed except that the bump they initiated caused me to miss a connecting flight and they were having trouble rerouting me.
Originally Posted By Boardwalkbum I know MANY people who have had problems due to Delta overbooking flights. I highly reccomend JetBlue if they serve an airport near you. I have flown them exclusively all over the U.S. over the course of the last three years and have never even heard of anyone having any problems due to overbooking.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Doing an online check in is a way to keep from getting bumped. >>> For carriers that have seat assignments, just getting a seat assignment at the time of ticketing is usually enough, as long as you check in at the airport and are at the gate at least 15 minutes prior to departure. If you buy a ticket and cannot get a seat assignment, that's a pretty good sign that the flight is oversold, and that you need to get to the airport early to reduce your chances of being bumped.
