Do you ever forget about bookings?
Jun 3, 2017, 5:50 pm
#1
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Do you ever forget about bookings?
Looking through the app (which, for the record, does a great job of pulling in all bookings with my Aeroplan number), I found a couple bookings I don't recall making.
One is a Latitude FP booking, so I can just cancel that.
The other is a non-refundable revenue booking. I called in about it, they resolved a schedule change, but I cannot, for the life of me, remember making it.
I'm probably going to make use of it, as the timing works out well, but it's unnerving to not remember these things.
Has anyone else come across bookings they forgot they had?
One is a Latitude FP booking, so I can just cancel that.
The other is a non-refundable revenue booking. I called in about it, they resolved a schedule change, but I cannot, for the life of me, remember making it.
I'm probably going to make use of it, as the timing works out well, but it's unnerving to not remember these things.
Has anyone else come across bookings they forgot they had?
Jun 3, 2017, 5:53 pm
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It's happened to me before but it's always been refundable booking or reward booking that I've made "just in case" and then all of a sudden i get an email that it's time to check in.
Jun 3, 2017, 5:54 pm
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Looking through the app (which, for the record, does a great job of pulling in all bookings with my Aeroplan number), I found a couple bookings I don't recall making.
One is a Latitude FP booking, so I can just cancel that.
The other is a non-refundable revenue booking. I called in about it, they resolved a schedule change, but I cannot, for the life of me, remember making it.
I'm probably going to make use of it, as the timing works out well, but it's unnerving to not remember these things.
Has anyone else come across bookings they forgot they had?
One is a Latitude FP booking, so I can just cancel that.
The other is a non-refundable revenue booking. I called in about it, they resolved a schedule change, but I cannot, for the life of me, remember making it.
I'm probably going to make use of it, as the timing works out well, but it's unnerving to not remember these things.
Has anyone else come across bookings they forgot they had?
Jun 3, 2017, 5:58 pm
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I think I'm getting old at just the right rate, thank you
Jun 3, 2017, 6:32 pm
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So your calendar reminder goes off and says "you have a flight".
But you don't remember booking the flight (or setting the reminder), or why you booked it.
The main flight in question for me is in 3 weeks. I didn't miss it. Any alert I set wouldn't have gone off for weeks. But I don't remember booking it.
Jun 3, 2017, 6:51 pm
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Yes.
Last month, I totally forgot about a schedule change, had the old times in my excel, and rushed to the airport for nothing. I ended up having to spend 2 hours in a not-so-nice airport.
Then another time, there was a major schedule change I had forgotten which had me overnight in a transit country instead of a 1 hour connection. That was a... surprise.
And then there was a booking I speculatively made, forgot to cancel, forgot about it completely, and then it showed up in a reminder email as a check-in reminder. Oh boy that was not good.
Last month, I totally forgot about a schedule change, had the old times in my excel, and rushed to the airport for nothing. I ended up having to spend 2 hours in a not-so-nice airport.
Then another time, there was a major schedule change I had forgotten which had me overnight in a transit country instead of a 1 hour connection. That was a... surprise.
And then there was a booking I speculatively made, forgot to cancel, forgot about it completely, and then it showed up in a reminder email as a check-in reminder. Oh boy that was not good.
Jun 3, 2017, 11:03 pm
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....thought there are a few times I did not become to realize the departure time until the night before; it was just that the tickets were booked at least over one month before the travel date, and I did not check the exact departure time. Two years ago, I also got wrong the departure date from DPS to PEK, only to discover two days ahead of time that I needed to leave on Dec 30, not Dec 31. This caused me to have to pay an extra hotel night (prepaid hotel nights and the IHG refused to refund for early check out, in Bali).