Originally Posted by
oreocookies
Just to follow up, no one answered the rest of my question and just talked about my incident at Midway. My question was how long Southwest needs to have a flight delayed for them to give me a hotel for a missed connection. If my layover is 1h:15m and I am only delayed 30 minutes but still miss my flight, would they accommodate me? What is the cutoff? Does the connection need to have boarded by the time I landed, etc? Usually I get food and go to the bathroom during the layover...
if weather is not the reason....
if you had had a long mechanical delay before leaving Portland either
1 thely kerp you on flight knowing you miss connection
2 they try to reroute you connecting elsewhere if you can make it back like sending you thru phx in a late arriving glight
3 you could stay in Portland and fly out the next day
this is true with other airlines
there is no rule on when they cancel. Nor is there a rule on when to hold for connecting pax. A factor in the hold is pilot clock time.
Not just how many connecting pax.
thus happened to me..I booked one of those no plane change but 2 stop flights from east to west coast. My last stop was denver. There was a delay in thus flight. WN replaced the final leg with a different plane and crew from den to west coast city. I had to be rebooked in a different flight.
i have bern on my fair share of Westto east flightswhere mechanical delay occurred resulting in missed connection and needing to stay in hotel. This was an American flight thru charlotte. They knew folks would miss connection so they rebooked connections and set hotels for that night and next day.
in October I had a flight leaving at noon from Central time to east time. Mechanical cancelation but there was no routes available that day so hotel that night and flight the next day.