Originally Posted by
jsguyrus
Sadly you can't rely on any QX schedule anywhere. Had a flight last week EWR-SEA-YKM. Three days out the SEA-YKM cancelled. I had to rebook with a wonderful five hour layover in Seattle, and ended up getting home nine hours after my original flight time. I followed up on "Alaska (used to) Listens" and got a note back "sorry" and that's about it.
Apparently cancellations are so common now they don't even bother with compensation.
Welcome to the Brad Tilden Screw Job going on. There's not a whole lot of love going on from Alaska; we're all just royally screwed. My next five flights are on Southwest. They'll get me there - and if something goes wrong I can connect through a half a dozen cities. I give up some stuff, but I know I can get to each of the five in a non-stop flight without a 9 hr delay as you note.