dickinson

+1.
Is there some sort of steath disinformation campaign going on? Have been on FT for awhile, that sure didn't look like a first post. More like a post from a new screen name for a poster who has been here for awhile.

rjw242

These pop up from time to time. The best in recent memory was this one from a (then) new poster, who was totally busted in post #27:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...s-cleared.html

CObigtimefan

I've never had more fun reading a thread from start to finish!!

rbg428

I think this post deserves to put to bed.

serfty

Interestingly there are situations where the failure to arrive at a destination in time as booked can cost a traveller far more than $1.2K. (Of course, in such situations it is prudent to book to arrive a day or more ealrlier if possibe.)

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This forum seems to have (again) been getting far more agressive of late.
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Mark_T

Seems to go along with an increasing tendency for people to refuse to take responsibility for their own lack of planning.

If you make travel plans that will only avoid large costs or significant inconvenience if everything goes exactly to plan then you are taking a risk before you start.

gemac

Of course there are situations where the failure to arrive at a destination in time can cost a traveller far more than $1.2K. This does not appear to be one of those situations.

There has been a rash of members treating this forum as the airline equivalent of Penthouse Forum lately, posting their fantasies as fact. Another one of those was linked upthread. I understand members here being upset when somebody posts their fantasy of how they might have been mistreated, and we learn subsequently that they were not mistreated at all. I don't know about you, but I don't think I have ever forgotten that somebody gave me in excess of $1,000 yesterday, and if I do it's time for me to seek medical attention. For the OP to have posted his adventures without mentioning the voucher was aggressive on his part, it is reasonable to respond to aggression with aggression.

videomaker

A little "detail" like that would be difficult for me to forget, too.

mvoight

He forgot the $1212, but remembered the $5 breaksfast voucher, the $10 lunch voucher, and the $50 fee from CX (does CX really charge FC pax a fee to change flights?). What is important is the OP has informed us about Executive's policy regarding who loses their seat in the event of a weight/balance issue. The way to avoid this is to not be the last one to check-in. I suspect this can be accomplished by following recommendations for airport arrival times.

gemac

The OP did ignore AA's suggested airport arrival time (2 hours before departure on international flights not listed) and arrived at 6:48 for an 8:15 flight. He does appear to be the only one cutting it that close.

IMO, the OP was overcompensated. He arrived at JFK less than 8 hours past his scheduled arrival. Typical comp for an 8-hour delay would be miles, perhaps 10,000 miles.

mvoight

If it had been me, I would have had AA comp the hotel at the departure point, and would have stayed another day I have learned a valuable lesson from this thread, and that is to not be the last one to check-in. This seems to have been the only real problem, except for maybe an agent at a remote location either not know what services would be available to the pax when he arrived at JFK or a failure in communication to the employees at JFK. Waiting 15 minutes for an agent to show up, after the ticket counter has been closed, seems like a very minor part in all of this. AA doesn't control Executive's denied boarding policy, and the policy makes sense to me, because there is no first class on their planes AFAIK.

aktchi

OP: I am sure the experience was inconvenient when it happened, but nothing out of the world. Your leaving out the compensation voucher and adding it only later has created needless confusion. In retrospect, AA appears to have treated you about as well as we could ask, especially considering they weren't the operating carrier and not in control of the events.

brp

Definitely seems so. Let's hope the change persists and the information content increases. It's good that people are noticing ^

Cheers.

Dallas49er

+1 It starts here. If not me, who?

Ok. I'll go back on my meds.

(OBTW-As a pre-Alzheimers candidate, I would be in deep tapioca if I couldn't remember a $1000 airline compensation. Just sayin')

JDiver

That's why we get a little OCD here - equipment changes, etc. can happen and when we accept the upgrade, we lose our preferred seat (we do at other times as well, and AA specifically states we are not guaranteed a seat - or much else, actually - in Conditions of Carriage. Sorry for your loss, but it does indeed happen.