ORD-YVR cancelled -- options?
Apr 30, 2005 | 11:45 am
#1
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ORD-YVR cancelled -- options?
My next leg on my ex-IST DONE4 is ORD-YVR on 3rd Sep, returning on 5th, but AA have curtailed the route early, so they've rebooked me ORD-DFW-YVR both ways. This is not particularly convenient + means most of the holiday weekend spent in the air, rather than in Vancouver. I figured instead that I'd go somewhere else (SAN springs to mind) but I'm wondering what my best option to avoid the $75 change fee is? Start at RTW desk? Exec Plat desk? Anyone got experience with negotiating this sort of thing?
Thanks for any advice,
Chris
Thanks for any advice,
Chris
Apr 30, 2005 | 12:28 pm
#2
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Madrid, Spain & Santiago, Chile
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Originally Posted by ctuckercva
...Anyone got experience with negotiating this sort of thing?...
If you have the status I think the EXP Desk is as good a place to start as any.
Apr 30, 2005 | 1:52 pm
#3
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Originally Posted by ctuckercva
My next leg on my ex-IST DONE4 is ORD-YVR on 3rd Sep, returning on 5th, but AA have curtailed the route early, so they've rebooked me ORD-DFW-YVR both ways. This is not particularly convenient + means most of the holiday weekend spent in the air, rather than in Vancouver. I figured instead that I'd go somewhere else (SAN springs to mind) but I'm wondering what my best option to avoid the $75 change fee is? Start at RTW desk? Exec Plat desk? Anyone got experience with negotiating this sort of thing?
Thanks for any advice,
Chris
Thanks for any advice,
Chris
Otherwise you might go ORD-SEA and drive up; 3 hours from SEA to Vancouver, or else ride on the Alaska/Horizon hop. Or visit our fair city instead; see www.bumbershoot.org for happenings that weekend.
Apr 30, 2005 | 5:31 pm
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Originally Posted by Gardyloo
Definitely start with the AA RTW desk. If it's a confirmed segment I would certainly argue they shouldn't charge you a reissue fee for the change the carrier initiated.
Otherwise you might go ORD-SEA and drive up; 3 hours from SEA to Vancouver, or else ride on the Alaska/Horizon hop. Or visit our fair city instead; see www.bumbershoot.org for happenings that weekend.
Otherwise you might go ORD-SEA and drive up; 3 hours from SEA to Vancouver, or else ride on the Alaska/Horizon hop. Or visit our fair city instead; see www.bumbershoot.org for happenings that weekend.
May 1, 2005 | 5:58 pm
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You could ask to be rerouted ORD-JFK-YVR with CX flying JFK-YVR. Arrives at 2 am though, however you get the full CX dinner on this leg (the flight goes on to HKG). Doubt there is any way to waive the change fee if you want a different city instead; this is one of the dangers of seasonal routes (I've been burned several times by changes in seasonal service). You could also try asking for ORD-LAX-YVR (the latter is on AS but codeshares as AA) and I think you could get that (not sure it is any better timewise than via DFW).
May 2, 2005 | 11:19 am
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Originally Posted by Darren
AA doesn't fly ORD-JFK
May 7, 2005 | 8:37 am
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Well I spoke with the RTW desk first, and they gave me short shrift, saying it was at the discretion of the airport ticket desk where I get the ticket reissued. So I called the EXP desk, and they put me through to the RTW desk...
I'm guessing that I'm in for a $75 fee then
unless I find a sympathetic ticket agent who'll be happy to spend an hour in my company to reissue the ticket and not generate revenue for it. Sigh.
Cheers
CT
I'm guessing that I'm in for a $75 fee then
unless I find a sympathetic ticket agent who'll be happy to spend an hour in my company to reissue the ticket and not generate revenue for it. Sigh.Cheers
CT