Is this something that happens often?!
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Anonymous
The others on the list were reasonable, this one is not. Major airlines do not cancel flights the day before (or even the week before) because of low bookings. It's too disruptive to operations. Cancellations/changes months in advance, yes that is very common. https://onemileatatime.com/insights/airlines-cancel-empty-flights/ |
Anonymous
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She is physically limited
She can't turn Wi-Fi on her own phone She doesn't speak English She is older Airplane travel is an unknown right now What could possibly go wrong? |
Anonymous
With airline alliances, you need to double check which plane will be flying. My cousin said she was flying to France on Delta. She had a Delta ticket but it was actually turned out to be an Air France plane. |
Anonymous
| I usually buy tickets many months in advance, especially if going to Europe, and I swear ... it is so frustrating ... I think about half the time they cancel the flight I purchased and switch me to a different flight. |
Anonymous
Maybe, but if one plane goes out of service, l wouldn't be surprised if the company cancels the flight with the fewest passengers who are the easiest to reroute versus a completely full flight to another destination. |
Anonymous
| I know of two London to Dulles flights on United that were cancelled two weeks ago. In one case, the person was put on a British Air flight leaving the same time. The other was bumped a day and had to spend the night at a hotel at Heathrow. |
Anonymous
She needs someone flying with her from now on. This is a disaster waiting to happen. |
Anonymous
My friend's BA flight to the US was delayed, then the plane was switched to another one. The flight the second plane was supposed to take to Asia was cancelled. |
Anonymous
It sounds like it's already happening. So hope OP is able to get in touch with good help over the phone at all the airports, including a translator. And that she can get in touch with her mom's cell phone to tell her what's happening and that she needs to tip the helpers. |
Anonymous
PP you replied to. Aha! Yes, I think that increased her risk of last-minute changes, the US airlines tend to do that a lot more than European ones (not even sure it's legal in the EU). |
Anonymous
Illegal to cancel flights? |
Anonymous
Airlines have to pay a lot of money for no good reason cancellations, up to 600 Euros per passenger. It's a pretty good incentive not to do that. |
Anonymous
Agreed, but that's quite different from illegal. |
Anonymous
| How do you fly to the US annually for 25 years, have an English speaking daughter, and still speak NO English?? Not even a little? I took 4 years of HS French 20 years ago and I can still bumble my way through France! |
Anonymous
Wow, you're nasty and stupid. First, this person might never have had formal training in English. Second, they might have, but with age comes significant learning loss, particularly in skills that are not practiced regularly. My parents lived in the UK for 4 years as adults, decades ago, and had a couple of years of formal English classes for foreigners... but now in their 70s have forgotten a lot of words and the correct way to accent them. They can barely make themselves understood in English when they come here to visit. Are you saying that if your children become fluent in a foreign language you've never studied, and you go visit them in that country, we should all excoriate you if you don't speak well? In your old age, no less? |