Delay reaccomodation
Oct 6, 2011 | 1:30 pm
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Delay reaccomodation
If my flight arrives in ATL under the MCT and I miss the connection is DL obligated to put me on another carrier if I'm going internationally, like LH or only DL or SkyTeam? They don't serve my airport other than the one flight per day I'd miss. I'm silver medallion if that helps.
Oct 6, 2011 | 1:37 pm
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If my flight arrives in ATL under the MCT and I miss the connection is DL obligated to put me on another carrier if I'm going internationally, like LH or only DL or SkyTeam? They don't serve my airport other than the one flight per day I'd miss. I'm silver medallion if that helps.
Oct 6, 2011 | 2:04 pm
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Oct 6, 2011 | 2:12 pm
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No obligation for them to do this, though your chances are higher if it was due to MX. WX or ATC, not likely.
Oct 7, 2011 | 1:51 am
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Destination is MUC. Flight departed 7 mins early but arrived late in ATL despite no weather in either location (headwinds perhaps). I assumed they wouldn't offline, but I figured I'd check.
Oct 7, 2011 | 3:22 am
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So what was the end result? Hopefully you didn't have to overnight in ATL, as there should have been five or six DL/AF/KL flights to AMS/CDG from ATL and then tons of options on AF/KL onward to MUC. With the joint venture, it wouldn't matter whose metal you're on. Definitely no chance that they'd send you over to LH in such a case, especially since LH would have to route you via FRA.
Oct 7, 2011 | 11:54 am
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I know this doesn't answer your question, but whenever I have a domestic flight connecting to an international flight, I ALWAYS make sure that I have a minimum of 2 hours connection time to allow for delays. This is particularly important to protect my upgraded BE seat.