Originally Posted by
Chamor
The other day my wife had a WN flight cancelled. We called WN but there is nothing they could do -- there were no flights available to her destination for a couple of days from her departure airport. And of course, WN does not have interline agreements, so it could not put her on another carrier. So we had to refund her WN ticket and then buy a (more expensive) last minute ticket on another airline. I knew that WN did not have interline agreements but had not really focused in the past on what a disadvantage this can be in IRROPS.
I don't fly WN too often, at least for business travel, mostly because I don't like the absence of assigned seats, the boarding process, the absence of an F or J cabin, and the lack of airport clubs. And I generally do not find it less expensive than its competitors, though it sometimes is and certainly was years ago. But the lack of interline agreements is another reason that I had not really focused on in the past.
nowadays this is universal with all airlines. They don’t book you on non partner airlines because of cancelations or delays.
when booking a trip you need to ask, what happens if this get cancelled based on frequency of service and routing.
i had this happen during new yrs day time about a decade ago when Chicago, Minneapolis had the super cold weather thst shut down the airports.
i had a flight to return home inn southwest. It opened up fir folks to rebook based on availability. I had to move it to a couple days later. Wasn’t a big deal, I was at my parents house. Thrn when I was scheduled to fly out, it hpgot cancelled again. I had to buy a ticket on delta. That return on them was an additional adventure.
i was scheduled on BUF-DTW-SEA. BUF flight was delayed because of crew rest. They canvpcelled the flight, but still ran the flight by the crew after they were cleared to fly. Missed my connection in Detroit. Then I was put through SLC on certain flight then standby fir later flight with a certain seat the next am. They were able to put me on one of the last flights of the day out of SLC.