Which airlines have issued policies at this point?

Already being discussed in this thread.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...ane-sandy.html

None, why the collective delay?

I think US might have in the last hour.

i would go on a weekend trip....ret is on sun/mon?

if a delay on the ret is critical, cancel & get a voucher....

Return Monday evening, departing DCA at 5pm. Guaranteed to be canceled and I can't afford to be stuck for days which is very likely at this point. My point for starting the thread is that I am surprised AA, and the airlines appear to be sitting on their hands when it is clear a massive storm is going to shut the east coast down for days.

Get the waiver out and add/edit as necessary, why is that so complicated? :confused: They collectively appear complacent.

There was already a thread on this topic.... :confused:

Why not go and then change your return if weather ends up warranting a change?

It's inconvenient for me, but I'm not going to complain just because AA hasn't instituted the capacity for me to get a free, more convenient schedule change yet.

Monday evening is nowhere near guaranteed to be cancelled.

Simple: I need to be back on the west coast on Tuesday. It is very possible this will be a drawn out event and we all know how even once flight ops start to resume, flights will be sold out for days since there isn't excess capacity in the system anymore.

For me the entire question is around why the delay in issuing the policy - I am not debating whether to go, just baffled as to why they don't try and get ahead of this thing sooner than later.

Why the delay - the storm could track further north or east than expected. Then the Airline has absorbed the costs for all changes that are not necessary in the end.

I just don't see why this is already considered too late in your eyes. Nobody is being affected on any flight ops right now in the areas you are referencing. When it becomes abundantly clear that flight ops will need to be modified (as you could possibly argue now, or as many who have seen the "devastating storm inbound" claim before, later) then a policy should be issued. Until then, I am thankful that AA isn't turning away change free revenue.

The point is that by issuing a policy when they know an area will be impacted significantly, you get people out of the 'system' who don't absolutely HAVE to fly - I.E. short business or personal trips. You do this because you know flights will be sold out for days after the storm as you try to return operations to normal. The fewer people you have to reaccomodate, the better - both from an available-seats perspective and a customer-optics perspective - "this airline is proactively trying to avoid problems" vs. "this airline will let the s*it hit the fan then hope the clean up team does a good job"

I fixed it for ya.

lol. Well, the dominoes should hopefully start to fall - US Airways has a waiver up thru 10/31 RDU to BOS.

Well done!^