Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
The OP should remember too that if the flight is cancelled/suspended/terminated, DL will rebook his party on another DL flight to CDG at no cost, including award tickets where inventory will be opened if necessary on flights the OP wants. It might mean another connection if they are starting from CVG, but if they begin in HSV, they could end up with better routing and schedules.
Bingo. That's the grand scheme of things. I picked CVG for the original layover because I really like the Skyclub there, and it was available for 60K miles, and how I have the CVG SC to myself a lot of times, unlike ATL/DTW. It is an award ticket, and don't mind the connection in CVG, even though it's not a redone 767. Heck, I may have EC all to myself (and most of economy also). So that's only about 20 rows each to ourselves.
The system kept booting me out of our 16 F/G seats, so I called just a bit ago, and the agent manually put us back in the seats, and couldn't figure out why it kept booting us out of the seats. So it may be that other people got booted from their seats also, and just have called in to get manually put in their seats. If I get booted again tomorrow from my seats, I'm gonna bet something's going to happen, like an equip change or something. The downside is, no chance for an op-up.