Help with cancelled segments on OWE
 

I have just found that some of my segments on my current OWE have been cancelled. These were direct flights and now with the new AA timetable, no longer exist. I think I remember reading here that I shouldn't be penalised for this. Is this still the case?

A second question I have is that the direct flights were IAD-DEN and DEN-BWI. If they were being changed to non direct flights could I get the airport changed to DCA (instead of IAD and BWI)? Is it all considered to be the one city, i.e. Washington area (WAS) so that I don't have to pay a fee?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Ticketed on AA. We recently had this happen: Booked non-stop BGI-JFK, then that flight was cancelled. AA rebooked us thru SJU, and it threw our segments over the top, but was not an issue, and did not cost us extra segments, or a re-ticketing fee. But once the BGI-JFK route was cancelled, they added a direct BGI-EWR flt, and two of us decided to change to this route. Since it was still considered one segment, there was NO extra seg fee, but we did have to pay re-ticketing for the new airport. Hope this helps!

Robin

The moral of this story is to get your tickets issued to the city code rather than a specific airport. Hence if you had got it ticketed to NYC (New York generically) you would not have had to pay the reroute fee. The same can apply to Chicago, San Francisco (which includes SFO, OAK, SJC if booked as the city), and so on...

(And remember to do it all open-dated!)

Just curious, does anyone know if AA considers EWR in their NYC category? I know that CO does NOT consider EWR an NYC co-terminal. Whats the deal with AA?

Also, just about to re-issue my tickets (AA screwed them up, so its their dime). They were all done open dated, except that the agent says I have to date the last segment. I think it was more of a way to keep the res open (she said without any flt numbers and dates, the res would cancel). Is this true?

Robin



[This message has been edited by Fishbait (edited 03-07-2003).]

This is rubbish. I am currently holding a DONE3 with about 12 segments remaining, with all of them open-dated. I don't have any reservations corresponding to any of them. Tickets and reservations are independent. The only restriction on the ticket is that all of the coupons will be endorsed "Not valid after" one year from the date of the first flight/purchase.