Originally Posted by
vsop
have you ever gotten a text message from CO when your flight is delayed. It says nothing of having to arrive within X amount of time from Scheduled Departure. The fact was that they had plenty of time to get my luggage on the plane, but did not want to be bothered as they were going to put those that were on the 6:45am delayed flight in my spot and me in thiers.
Here's a tripAlert that I happened to have in my archived emails for some reason:
As of 6:48 pm/17AUG, CO22/17AUG from EWR gate C72 is expected to be delayed due to a change in aircraft. Since the flight may be cleared to depart on-time, you must be at the gate based on the scheduled departure time of 7:05 pm. The flight is now estimated to arrive into DUB at 8:54 am. This information is provided as a courtesy and must not affect the time you report to the airport. Info subject to change.
There's nothing here that says I can happily check my bag later than usual because of the "delay".
Re the $13.99 Avis charge - can be fixed after the event with a quick phone call to Avis First customer service - not ideal I know, and I've complained about the whole automatically-include-it-and-then-remove-it process but if I was in a real hurry I know what I'd do.