Saturday, February 18, 2006
Family Vacation to Snowmass, CO
Takeoff Clearance Cancelled: Expect another flight tomorrow
On Friday the 17th, we were preparing for our 10am departure on Saturday to Denver via Dallas, of course on American. I went to check in online, and the only resulting message was “Your request cannot be processed at this time, for further assistance contact a reservation agent.”
Uh oh. So at 1230 am, I called American. Our flight from Dulles to Dallas was cancelled. Lucky I checked I guess. “You’re confirmed on the 0740 flight on Sunday.”
WHAT!?!
Is there nothing else on Saturday? An hour later, the reservation agent came back and said that everything was set if we wanted to fly from National to Denver leaving at 0650 on Saturday. We would connect through O’Hare and St. Louis, but at least we would get there on Saturday. There was also a good chance that we could find standby seats to Denver in Chicago. After some discussion, we accepted. Being now 2am, we continued to make preparations to leave and forgo any kind of sleep.
The next thing to do was request a change in the rental car that we had to get to Dulles. I had obtained the rental car for a number of reasons. Anyway, I contacted the rental car company and asked to move the dropoff location to DCA. That went through with no extra fee. We would later find out that this was amazing. We awoke the kids at 0430 and headed to National Airport instead. We arrived at about -0520.
On Friday the 17th, we were preparing for our 10am departure on Saturday to Denver via Dallas, of course on American. I went to check in online, and the only resulting message was “Your request cannot be processed at this time, for further assistance contact a reservation agent.”
Uh oh. So at 1230 am, I called American. Our flight from Dulles to Dallas was cancelled. Lucky I checked I guess. “You’re confirmed on the 0740 flight on Sunday.”
WHAT!?!
Is there nothing else on Saturday? An hour later, the reservation agent came back and said that everything was set if we wanted to fly from National to Denver leaving at 0650 on Saturday. We would connect through O’Hare and St. Louis, but at least we would get there on Saturday. There was also a good chance that we could find standby seats to Denver in Chicago. After some discussion, we accepted. Being now 2am, we continued to make preparations to leave and forgo any kind of sleep.
The next thing to do was request a change in the rental car that we had to get to Dulles. I had obtained the rental car for a number of reasons. Anyway, I contacted the rental car company and asked to move the dropoff location to DCA. That went through with no extra fee. We would later find out that this was amazing. We awoke the kids at 0430 and headed to National Airport instead. We arrived at about -0520.
# posted by Bob @ 1:02 PM 
