Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Normally if you request a return to your origin during IROPs, it's considered a trip in vain and you get a full refund. I suspect this is what happened to your botched rerouted ticket.
However, if you need to rent a car at LEX, I'd prefer the nonstop to CVG. It's a short and easy drive, with the airport being in Kentucky so that you avoid most of the traffic.
It's quite possible. The GA took over half an hour trying to accomplish this, and I am sure the fact that the computer said I was in DTW was a significant complicating factor. Could have been trip-in-vain, could have just deleted everything as a last resort. I normally get picked up at LEX and the extra hour to CVG is probably a bridge too far (destination is in rural KY entirely the wrong way), but given the hassle of connecting and the obscene price premium from inventory blocking I am definitely considering just driving myself from CVG (or SDF, which is also served nonstop) in the future. It grinds my gears that I have to suffer the fortress hub and I can't even get 650-mile nonstop service...
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Originally Posted by
lucycan
My point about not happening in 25 years is two different mechanical delays on two different flights leaving me to arrive 14+ hours late. Weather is a WHOLE other story. Those delays don't count!
Fair enough, but mechanical delays are somewhat like weather delays in that they just happen sometimes. I don't really think it's right to be significantly more upset about them. In my anecdotal experience, and generally backed up by the OTP data, Delta is a good bit better than its competitors in terms of avoiding delays. But sometimes you get unlucky.