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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS got out of Miami yesterday. On Monday, before anyone breathed a mention of "evacuate", he booked a flight out of MIA for Thursday, 3 days ahead of Irma's likely hit. Sounds reasonably prudent to me.

So American had 9 scheduled flights yesterday MIA to DCA. 
First 2 flights: cancelled. 
Next 2 flights on time. 
Next flight cancelled. 
Next 2 flights take of within 30 minutes of schedule (DS was on one of these). 
Last two flights were at least 2-3 hours delayed -- I assume they took off eventually.

I cannot blame anyone for planning and having their flight cancelled (still 3 days ahead of Irma). If DSs flight did not take off, his plan B would have been to wait out the storm with a family of a friend of a friend who was offering shelter to people stranded.

The cancelled flights were for insufficient crew. [/quote]

Half the flights cancelled 3 days before a hurricane?  That's a lot of missing crew. 
Oh and when I tried to change my flight from Thursday to Wednesday? American waived the change fee but the difference in ticket price was $2000 (for MIA to DCA one way). Thanks American. [/quote]

This was the computer - it raised the prices when everyone started searching for flights. American has since capped the prices.[/quote]
Blaming the computer? That didn't help anyone get out Wednesday. Or avert 50% cancellation on Thursday. The cap on fares came many hours and many many screaming complaints later. [/quote]

You can believe what you want, but I work in the industry. It gets exhausting trying to explain this to people who don't understand.[/quote]

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