Kathy -

I suggest you ignore the postings of yyz-den. This is not the first time this individual has disrupted a perfectly legitimate question such as yours with posts such as these. The best way to deal with people like this is to ignore them.

Regarding your original question, you are absolutely correct that airlines have schedules that cannot be met with available equipment. At the present time, DL is probably the worst offender, though it may not be entirely their fault. Apparently, they have about 15 757s with major engine problems that simply cannot fly. Several DL employees, including both pilots and CSRs have told me it is Russian roulette with 757 flights.

On a recent trip from PHL to SJC via ATL, DL first cancelled my PHL/ATL flight and then cancelled the ATL/SJC flight. The PHL/ATL was not a 757, but DL has scheduled hourly service as a competitive tool vs AirTran, and there is simply not enough traffic to support this (told to me by a DL pilot).

You are also correct about no compensation - when my PHL/ATL flight was cancelled, they just put me on the next one, and when the ATL/SJC flight was cancelled, I was put on am ATL/SFO flight with an offer to wait for about an hour at SFO until a shuttle bus would take me back to SJC.

[This message has been edited by JerryFF (edited 08-26-2001).]