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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you travel often enough, you learn that when they are cancellations you need to pivot and pivot quickly before your best options disappear. People are wasting too much time Hoping for a convenient nonstop flight home. Move on from that dream.[/quote]

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Oh but dahling…that only leaves you exposed to more cancellations, over booked flights, time outs.

The best option is to get on the app and rebook as soon as you know you’re going to miss your connection.

I’m stuck in Dallas and I’m jumping from one flight to the next. You can only get on one standby at a time.

Did you know Einstein Bagels are not good when they’re stale?[/quote]

I would just rebook for several days into the future and go chill at a hotel. How long do you plan to torture yourself at the airport?[/quote]

How lovely that you can are willing to spend a few days in a filthy dump of an airport hotel.

Some people are not lazy and have a life. [/quote]

Some people are flexible under suboptimal conditions and are not spoiled princesses like you are.[/quote]

When I was 25 and single I could be “flexible.”

Now? With a toddler and pregnant wife who can’t stand for long periods of time, my life is different and a lot less flexible.

Older individuals and those with disabilities have limited “flexibility.” Lower income people who rarely fly to see beloved family members can’t afford to be “flexible” when they get stranded by an airline.

Southwest has a serious responsibility: to honor their promises and to do so safely. They failed and there should be consequences, the first of which should be the replacement of the executive team. [/quote]

Me too. So when i was no longer 25 and had babies I stopped traveling at the holidays. If people wanted to see is they came to is because they coild be flexible with the inevitable delays that happen. You learned the hard way.[/quote]

You really think what is happening with Southwest is inevitable and expected? Maybe insomuch as pilots and employees have seen this coming, but it is not normal AT ALL. The DoT is going to investigate, nompother airline has 5 days of delays.

Why on earth are people here blaming travelers for SW's systemic, internal failures?[/quote]

I’m only blaming the people who are acting like the extra cost of a hotel or rental car is going to send them into bankruptcy. Most people made alternate arrangements and will sort things out with SW later. It’s the ones who are crying and despairing like no one has ever been stuck at an airport before that are annoying. [/quote]

We got caught up in the travel mess last summer - thankfully didn’t fly anywhere this month - but with so many cancelled flights it cost us $1000 to get a rental car for 3 hours, and we had to lie and say we were bringing it back to the same rental place in order to even get it. We paid it because I had a D&C scheduled for the next morning for my miscarriage. It was absolutely awful and of course I was complaining. Give people a break, you have no idea what they’re trying to get home for and the high cost of “alternate arrangements” absolutely can put someone in despair. You sound like an insufferable human. [/quote]

You could have done a 3 hour uber for a lot less than 1k. [/quote]

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