Thursday, May 8, 2008
Don't fly AA
Well you can do what you want (I guess) but American Airlines is banned from our house. Well, today it is anyway. I've never had any problems as far as actually flying with them but if you want to make any changes to your itinerary they charge outrages fees. So I wanted to move my flight up from this coming Monday to Saturday (or Friday or Sunday) and keep my return flight the same. Buuutttt, they charge you a $100 changing fee. So you have to pay the difference of what the price would be today (for both departure and return flight even if you are not changing both. So that would be $900, yes $900, plus the $100 changing fee. So if I want to come to St. Louis a few days early it would cost me over $700 (because they do subtract what I originally paid - they're so gracious). No thank you. I'm not sure why I am being charged the full price of the return flight when I'm not changing that flight. So the only thing that makes sense to me is being charged the difference of the departure flight. Right? You're charging me because I'm filling one of your seats you haven't filled yet? It's not like I'm canceling. Southwest has NO changing fees. Only the difference of the price and if the price is less than what you paid they refund your money. I don't know if AA does that but who cares. I'm mad at them. Well that's it for now. Thanks for listening.
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I had no idea that AA was that expensive in changing your flight. I know that we will never fly UNITED due to our experience a few years ago when they delayed our flight so that we missed our connecting flight in Chicago. Long story short, AA was the flight we took to get home that night since that was the last flight to St Louis. You will be on Southwest in August thanks to your dad's reward with them. So change it if you need to but I think the days and times were ok with you. We always want to visit with you as long as possible! Can't wait to see all of you!
Love,
Papa and Memaw
I can relate - Delta wanted to charge me $125 per ticket for a change fee! I think all the "big airlines" do things that way. Southwest is the only airline I've discovered that actually refunds your money.
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