VDB compensation question
Mar 29, 2010 | 1:08 pm
#31
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Usually had no problem doing this as well. Only once was the hotel a stickler about it (called some 30 minutes after the cutoff due to a VDB, and they insisted that they wanted to charge me). It was DC of course (you know how people can be there with rules).
Anyhow, got to the hotel the next day at 8:30 a.m. on my rebooked flight, and they try to tell me it's too early to check in. I said absolutely not, I'm paying for last night, so either produce a room, or produce a refund.
They scrambled for a few minutes and were able to produce a room.
Anyhow, got to the hotel the next day at 8:30 a.m. on my rebooked flight, and they try to tell me it's too early to check in. I said absolutely not, I'm paying for last night, so either produce a room, or produce a refund.
They scrambled for a few minutes and were able to produce a room.
Mar 29, 2010 | 6:53 pm
#32
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CO should have gotten you a hotel for the night...Unless they formally made an announcement that they would only take "local" volunteers, the airlines always provide a hotel voucher for passengers being rebooked on morning flights...Well at least in the 10 or so times that I have been bumped overnight, I have always had my hotel comp'd.
Mar 29, 2010 | 6:56 pm
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In an attempt to clarify...the sum total of this thread so far:
1. colpuck was wrong, channa was working under outdated info, and US bump certs are indeed mileage-earning and do work for US codeshares.
2. It would seem that if the amount is computer-generated that on US negotiating with the gate agent is likely to be a fruitless endeavor.
1. colpuck was wrong, channa was working under outdated info, and US bump certs are indeed mileage-earning and do work for US codeshares.
2. It would seem that if the amount is computer-generated that on US negotiating with the gate agent is likely to be a fruitless endeavor.