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Old Oct 7, 2001 | 3:38 am
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Apostrophe
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Grantville, GA.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by rrz518:
In spite of continuing to resume "normal" operations, some greedy carriers have simply abandonded answering their telephones.

In the past week, I have needed to contact TWA, AA and DL, while on the road, from my cellphone.

All three have basically the same strategy: "If you want to check a flight, book a ticket, etc. visit our website. For all other calls, all agents are busy. Try back later". Click.

Am I being selfish by wanting to speak with these people? Particularly, when I was stuck at a connecting airport, and the agents were gone?

This seems to be the indication that customer service is simply an option.
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Had this problem with Delta just last week trying to get my kid down here AVL-FLL...took five trys - on hold for 30 min and longer to get a human. I almost humped the five miles to FLL to deal with it in person.

BTW - Howdy, neighbor...

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