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Old Oct 28, 2015 | 9:05 am
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Originally Posted by gooseman13
Enjoyed this report - I did talk to a sales rep when you shared info with me a while back, but the rep never followed up after our first call and its one of those things where it would have taken some "sales encouragement" to get me to do it.

Since you use the app fairly frequently, are you ever finding that you book something only to have it be cancelled because they now have use for the aircraft? That would be a concern I have, to book a trip around an empty leg only to have the leg cancelled.
Thank you gooseman13. Yes, I've had one cancellation out of 6 booked, an 800 from MKE-APA. Fortunately, I was in north suburban Chicago and was able to get an AA flight back home from ORD a couple hours later. I've also booked 4 or 5 others (not counting 2 butt bookings) but cancelled when the departure time didn't work. With the risk of cancellation, I am reluctant to book anything where I have to position and don't make any return reservations that can't be cancelled without penalty.

Originally Posted by abbymtl
I've been a member for 8 months now, I've only booked 6 legs and one of them (operated by XOJet) got cancelled. Going into NY area they were able to arrange a helicopter shuttle 2 out of 3 times.
I only took the plunge because my sales rep was pretty persuasive, I don't regret it one bit. Great value even if I don't take anymore flights until my membership expires.
Agree. I don't regret the membership and figure we've already got our money's worth. And since we are grandfathered at our original annual membership fee, pretty sure that we will re-up for another year.
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