imktdqt810
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jan 27, 2011
Our flights from May 2020 were rebooked in Oct 2020 for June 2021 flights! Everything has been quiet and I have been randomly going in AA to look if any seats have opened up to move closer to the front of the plane. Sunday night I got an "Alert" that our flights from Home to Charlotte and Charlotte to Orlando have been changed. From leaving at 10:30am and arriving into Orlando at 3:15 pm (with layover) AA changed us to leaving at 5:05AM and arriving in Orlando at 7:40 PM with a 10 hour lay over in Charlotte. I was like..NOPE! I researched a better flight and found something close to our original (leaving at 11 and in at 3:00pm with a shorter layover). I called AA Sunday night when the email came in and my "researcher hat went on" to have the automation tell me the call back would be 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours. I said NOPE again and called at 6:30 am the next morning and talked to someone. She got us on the better flight and was still able to keep the 3 of us together on both flights. Today (this morning at 10:30) I get ANOTHER flight change alert, this time it was for our return flight home. Same saga.....huge 11 hour lay over that time. I was put into the call back queue and got the call back 4 hours later. We got on better flights but not as great as our original and we get home in the evening and not afternoon. But here is the kicker, they couldn't assign us seats on our 2nd leg because the ONLY thing open was all preferred seating and I had to go online to book those preferred seats (and pay more money). But there was no other flight option home that day less then a 3 hour lay over. The agent ALSO told me that since we are about 6 weeks out from our flight she "suggested I get back to keeping an eye daily on my flight and don't rely on the email alerts since those are auto populated to go out to everyone on the flight when there is a change in flights". So now I am a nervous-nilly getting stressed out over the flights and HOPING we can stay on the ones we have and not get any more flight changes. Thank you, thank you all for letting me type down my thoughts and rant a bit. If I so much as mention this to DH his knee jerk response is "Cancel the whole dang trip, Disney is TOO expensive anyways". So I'm zip-lipped!