I’ve had crazy flight issues.  I’ve been diverted many times, I’ve had flights get cancelled while I was on board, I’ve had airports close while we were in the air, and I’ve been in an airplane that was hit by a truck.  (on the ground) In every situation, I’ve never doubted that …
Read More »This Service Will Proactively Notify You When You Qualify for Flight Compensation
I’ve written about an app that will help you figure out if you can get compensation for a flight delay/cancellation. However, with this app, you need to proactively ask about your flights (and remember to do it). There’s a new app in town that will automatically check whether or not …
Read More »Will a Flight Ever Turn Back When It’s Already Thousands of Miles into Flight Path?
The answer, sadly, is yes. We just had a case of this with British Airways on a Heathrow to Tokyo flight. From the Daily Mail: Passengers on a British Airways flight to Tokyo were forced to suffer a 6,000-mile ‘flight to nowhere’ after the plane they were on returned to Heathrow …
Read More »Delta Cancelling Smaller Percentage of Flights than American, Spirit
American Airlines cancelled 3.1% of its flights so far in 2015, over twice the percentage of Spirit Airlines. Delta only cancelled 0.7% of its flights, and Alaska only 0.3%. Dallas News dissected the details, based on this data from the Department of Transportation. Spirit also lost way less bags per …
Read More »When Mileage Run Flights are Delayed or Cancelled
So us frequent travelers do something that can be seen as a bit crazy to other people–we fly somewhere for the sole purpose of getting miles. Well, not always sole. Keri and I both do short mileage runs to fun places. But we’re going to be in those fun places …
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