Our Hell with Delta. Advice needed
Jul 15, 2018, 1:04 pm
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I would bet at 50-50 odds that he speaks with either a NJ/NY or UK accent.
Ben, if you care to reply again. Could you clarify if wife was denied a ticket at the initial airport, or at the a transfer at CDG. And did she BPs issues at the initial airport?
Jul 15, 2018, 1:38 pm
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Why keep speculating?
Either OP returns with the facts or not. If he does, then it is possible to provide useful advice. If he does not, little of what he says makes sense and there are close to unlimited possibilities.
Either OP returns with the facts or not. If he does, then it is possible to provide useful advice. If he does not, little of what he says makes sense and there are close to unlimited possibilities.
Jul 15, 2018, 3:57 pm
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The original flight was, according to OP, XXX-JFK-PHL. Since he mentioned the ticket being priced in pounds, it could potentially be LHR, MAN, EDI, or GLA (or maybe even LGW if he was on a VS codeshare, though I don't think AF serves LGW).
Jul 15, 2018, 4:45 pm
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How so? Delta.com's U.S. site? An Air France European site? Delta.com doesn't have the functionality to buy an international infant lap ticket.
Lily (the infant?) needed to have her flight record attached to a traveling adult. That still doesn't give her a ticket.
Infant tickets are 10% of the available adult fare at time of infant ticket purchase, plus applicable taxes and fees. It's best to buy infant fares immediately after buying adult fares. Calling and asking 'Are we good to go?' isn't buying a ticket.
My wife then called Air France last month to ask about luggage allowances for our lap infant and she said that she doesn’t have a ticket and in fact implied we were trying to get our infant to USA for free and was very rude about it.
We then called Delta about this. The assistant answered and we gave our confirmation number to which he replied ‘booking for Ben, Jen & Lily’.
We then called Delta about this. The assistant answered and we gave our confirmation number to which he replied ‘booking for Ben, Jen & Lily’.
Infant tickets are 10% of the available adult fare at time of infant ticket purchase, plus applicable taxes and fees. It's best to buy infant fares immediately after buying adult fares. Calling and asking 'Are we good to go?' isn't buying a ticket.
Jul 15, 2018, 6:51 pm
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How so? Delta.com's U.S. site? An Air France European site? Delta.com doesn't have the functionality to buy an international infant lap ticket.
Lily (the infant?) needed to have her flight record attached to a traveling adult. That still doesn't give her a ticket.
Infant tickets are 10% of the available adult fare at time of infant ticket purchase, plus applicable taxes and fees. It's best to buy infant fares immediately after buying adult fares. Calling and asking 'Are we good to go?' isn't buying a ticket.
Lily (the infant?) needed to have her flight record attached to a traveling adult. That still doesn't give her a ticket.
Infant tickets are 10% of the available adult fare at time of infant ticket purchase, plus applicable taxes and fees. It's best to buy infant fares immediately after buying adult fares. Calling and asking 'Are we good to go?' isn't buying a ticket.
Jul 15, 2018, 6:59 pm
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If the OP could go backward in time to change his flight selection to a nonstop, wouldn't it be simpler to go WAY back in time to where the continents were all smushed together, travel overland to the destination, and then go forward in time to the present?
Jul 15, 2018, 7:05 pm
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Jul 15, 2018, 8:38 pm
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Jul 15, 2018, 8:51 pm
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When one’s final destination was in PA/NJ and coming from Europe, I think it’s reasonable to not want to fly directly over PHL/NYC from Europe and fly nearly 700 miles further south, only to have to fly another 700 miles back north, particularly with a lap infant. I doubt OP’s reasoning to avoid ATL has anything to do with trying to avoid a Deliverance-like experience.
Jul 15, 2018, 10:38 pm
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When one’s final destination was in PA/NJ and coming from Europe, I think it’s reasonable to not want to fly directly over PHL/NYC from Europe and fly nearly 700 miles further south, only to have to fly another 700 miles back north, particularly with a lap infant. I doubt OP’s reasoning to avoid ATL has anything to do with trying to avoid a Deliverance-like experience.
What I would like to know is why Delta was changed their reservation seven times? But of course, OP is long gone and will probably never return to this thread to enlighten us.