Flying Delta in Sept to Italy from US.....I vowed to not look at fares once I booked....which I haven't. However, some great advice I received here to check itinerary periodically was a great bit of wisdom! I received an email from Delta a few weeks after booking to let me know the final connection on our return flights had changed-and it was actually a good change, giving us an hour longer in JFK to catch our final flight-which was a bit tight when I booked. So......I happened to check our itinerary this week, only to find a red alert telling me there was a change that " might affect a connection"....they rerouted us through Atlanta, and that flight landed an hour AFTER the connecting flight they put us on to JFK, where we connected to transatlantic flight to Milan. Umm.....that's a problem! I called, and everything is rerouted-straight to JFK, then off to Milan....so I will keep a close eye out for changes...while I expected a few time changes, I never expected such a drastic change with no notification! thanks for the heads up!
Posted by
Idaho, USA
7803 posts
Don't you love when they reschedule you for a route that's impossible, i.e. take off at a location before the arrival time? Ugh!
Our flight from Seattle to Venice has already been rescheduled by Delta twice. And, if you've paid for Economy Plus, make sure they rebook you in that same area. A couple of times they've wanted to recharge us for the Economy Plus when we already paid on the original ticket.
Posted by
Orange Park, Fl
985 posts
We had five changes to our flights last fall - five! Each time I researched and found another best fit and called to rearrange our flights. The last change was very late in the game and I was really distressed that our return now left CDG at 8:00 a.m. instead of 1:00 pm and that there were no other options. Although we had to mostly pack the night before and be up extremely early it worked out great: very little traffic on the roads and the airport was quiet with very few people. I may purposely plan for early departures in the future.
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19274 posts
The same thing happened to me a few years ago when I was flying with miles from Germany to Denver with a change in planes in Canada. A few weeks before the flight I looked at the schedule and found the Canada to Denver flight was now scheduled to leave before the Munich to Canada flight was supposed to arrive. I called United and they rerouted me through IAD, which I had worked hard to avoid.
Posted by
St. Louis, MO USA
1976 posts
Jill, good for you for checking! I usually check every two weeks until a month out, then once a week until I leave. My sister and I are going to Paris next month and when I checked our itinerary in February, I saw that United apparently canceled our STL-EWR-CDG leg and changed it to STL-ORD-CDG with only a 56-minute layover. My sister called United and they got us on a flight that leaves STL earlier, so now we have a 3-hour layover at ORD. We didn't get an email notification or anything; if I hadn't checked regularly, we might not have known about the change until we went to check in 24 hours befor our trip!