Originally Posted by theroz

My gut tells me you are SOL. I know many people who did just what you did and in then end it was on their dime.

We were in Israel 10/23 when all hell broke loose we were on AA tkt stock but all BA metal and got lucky when BA decided to take over our tkts and we ended up leaving 1 day later on what turned out to be BAs last departing flight. However many friends simply purchase 1 way tkts for $1000s of $$$ and some even had a 1 or 2 night layover, all thought theyd get refunded by their Carrier NOT a single one of them was refunded.

The main thing is once you go out on your own and make your own arrangements that is exactly what it is unless your carrier tells you otherwise. In some cases travel ins will kick in but not when its due to war, terror etc etc

We are on our way back to NY from TLV we finally hit it with our 4th tkt that we purchased, UA wouldnt do anything except put us on a LH group carrier and said we can get a voucher it was only when we mentioned what do you mean by a voucher you have to refund us in full, which they did only after they kept trying to get us to take their voucher(a bunch of sleeze balls) 1 of the 3 CXed tkts was BA and at the time they didnt offer anything except to book for another date when they will be flying or a Refund, LY was not an option although weeks later it was

Im sorry for the bad news, we have been thru it as well but we knew that doing anything w/o consent of the Carrier meant its on our own dime.