Ah I was searching the DIS boards hoping to way to get a decent rental car rate for MCO in August (everything is double or triple my normal rate!!!) and was hoping this "masterpiece" would find its way to Flyertalk.

I do find it interesting that she kept insisting on disboards that because of her great persuasive skills and unwillingess to accept unreasonable service that things would work out for her...and now she writes on her blog that she doesn't expect US Air to resolve things to her satisfaction.

I also found this part fascinating, "I do not feel it would be in anyone's best interest to put him through two airline flights in one day totaling OVER 7 hours. I think it might border on child abuse to be confined to one seat or one row for the better part of your day as a 19 month old. I think the passengers around us would probably tend to agree with this line of thinking."

Guess she won't be asking for advice on flying with a toddler to Europe then. I still can't believe she'd take an early AM nonstop over a latter connection flight. And if she's such a great planner, why didn't she regularly check for a month or so to get the best possible rate, why buy the first thing that popped up?

I agree that she should have booked directly with US Air rather than Orbitz. But on the other hand, unless things have changed since my last US Air experience in 2007 she likely would be speaking with an agent in Manilla or Mexico or somewhere that English is the second language and the person would have difficulty dealing with her and getting her moved to a better flight. I came here in desperation back in 2007 and luckily some kind folks gave me the elite phone numbers so I could talk to someone Stateside to resolve my issues with using US Air miles on LH. (thank you again!)

And who really believes this is a "frequent" flier who has never had a flight changed after booking months in advance? And she better hope she doesn't get nearly stuck in MCO due to November storms like I did in January 2005 when a noreaster slammed the northeast and brought ice/freezing rain to CLT. Thankfully US Air endorsed me over to AA even though they didn't have to (they originally tried AirTrain but the mickey mouse airline refused to accept us).