tmr10001

I have five flights in January and February and today no seats or aircraft are listed for two of the flights. Does this mean the flights have cancelled?

dd1612

It's the result of an EVOLVING ie in process equipment change or schedule change.

These changes usually occur on a Saturday!

Wait a day till Sunday afternoon, things should be more visible.

RRDD

Try doing dummy bookings on the same flights.

JayTeaBee

Same here.... fearing I'll lose my EC selections.

davetravels

Yup. I have a bunch of flights booked on a January itinerary with the same thing. I'll check it again later this evening, and I expect that by tomorrow, something should appear more firm in the itinerary. If the change isn't to your liking, be prepared with alternatives to suggest to an agent that suit you.

kpfleming

Grrrr. Thanks, airlines, for helping to destroy our language.

Flights don't *cancel*, they *are cancelled*. There, I said it.

MSPeconomist

.....and gift isn't a verb.

davetravels

My January itinerary that I mentioned above in post #5 that had the same problems mentioned in the OP has been auto-fixed now, as far as now being back to confirmed flights with seats. Unfortunately, the EFFICIENT auto-rebook system has changed my LAX/MSP/ORD from a 1 hour connection to a 6 hour connection. I guess they're seriously cutting back on MSP/ORD flights!

Anyway, as we all know, this kind of thing allows us to make VERY liberal schedule changes to our liking. I'm trying to figure out what works best for me before I call.

JayTeaBee

Everything is back to normal this morning. The schedules did change a bit for everything but my seat selections were in tact. Nice work Delta, you had me nervous.

TTT

I had an award ticket booked in April for the 10:25am HNL-NRT on the 747. Unfortunatley, that is now the 767 departure and the 747 is going later in the day. I would like to switch to the later departure so I can ride on the upper deck but neither the paid nor the miles booking engine can find flights on that day. I think I will wait a bit more until revenue management wakes up and gets things squared away.

MSPeconomist

From MSP, DL operates almost as many flights to MDW as to ORD. For downtown Chicago, MDW is closer, although ORD is better if your destination is the northern suburbs or Wisconsin.

Try checking if there's a better flight inti MDW from MSP for you. Alternatively, can you reroute through DTW rather than MSP for a better schedule?

davetravels

I was only kidding about DL reducing the schedule from MSP to CHI. I fly that route once a month, or more. It was obviously a DL.com re-booking glitch.

Here's something I've NEVER seen before . . . .

As I mentioned a few posts back, my itin on DL.com showed that I was rebooked into a 6 hour layover LAX/MSP/ORD starting at LAX on the 12:50 AM redeye. I figured that, since I'm now arriving at ORD at 2:30 PM, instead of around 8:30 AM, the DM agents would allow me to change it to a 7:10 departure LAX/DTW/ORD, instead of the redeye.

When I called, I was told that their system DID NOT show me with a 6+ hour layover arriving at ORD at 2:30 PM - - I was rebooked onto a 55~ minute connection arriving at ORD around the same time as my original flight, so, they wouldn't let me change it. When I told the agent that it showed a 6 hour connection, she DIDN'T believe me! I HUACA, and same thing!

I logged out and refreshed a few times, and on DL.com, it STILL showed the 6 hour connection! Only after I clicked "ACCEPT" to accept the changes, did it show the "normal" 55 minute connection at MSP from the redeye.

So, I'll keep the redeye and hope for another schedule change between now and Jan.