Originally Posted by
Finkface
Because those are the rules you agreed to when you bought the tickets. You would seriously have flown with three kids with ear infections even if this happened last year? Regardless, that’s your choice. But why blame the airline and try to hurt them because you bought inflexible tickets and no insurance and then wanted the flexibility? Overbooking and reselling for no-shows or non refundable cancellations is what keeps prices down for all of us. Just own the decisions you made and move on. Don’t be petty and try to ‘punish’ the airline when they did nothing wrong.
That’s your opinion, my opinion is if more people do what I dothen the airlines will find some incentive to figure out how to get us to tell them far in advance that we are Not going to use the tickets and they will be able to resell them. I know the rules are the rules, but I’m a smart consumer and I have the right do use the tickets as I see them and maybe if enough people do this the airlines will find someway to meet us halfway. Having a uniform cancellation fee for all tickets including these relatively short West Coast routes makes no sense, I’m just doing my part to show Alaska and Delta that is the case. And I’m not alone, as I said there’s a few threads over on the Delta forum about other people who teach us this.