Originally Posted by
drvannostren
Not to make any assumptions or be flippant either, but the lesson also must be that travel right now should only be taking place for essential reasons. You never mentioned hers, I'll assume that it was. But these cancellations and such will continue until we're on the other side of this unfortunately.
I have to respectfully disagree in that we if do not travel, airlines will see no reason to restore service and these cancellations will sadly continue for much longer than necessary. The more demand they see, the sooner we get to the other side.
As someone mentioned earlier about smaller airports, I have seen that myself recently. Last week I travelled to TLH. During “normal” times DL usually had a minimum of 6 flights per day. Now, they have reduced the schedule to 2 (a morning and evening). On the day of my travel the morning flight cancelled (luckily I was on the evening so was not impacted). My return is next week and there is a morning and afternoon departure. I’m on the afternoon departure and hoping it does not cancel as it appears to be booked more heavily than the morning. But, I will be monitoring frequently in the chance it does, to switch to the morning. I think for those of us traveling right now we should check our flights a minimum of twice a day in the week leading up to travel just to be safe.