Posted on 08/07/2022 10:40:29 AM PDT by grundle
A mother of two boys, ages seven and eight, woke up Saturday morning thinking she'd be heading home.
But then an email from American Airlines changed everything.
Sarah Ripmaster was supposed to fly back home from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Chicago O'Hare International Airport Saturday, until she realized that American had rebooked her, but not her kids.
Ripmaster said the first thing she felt when she realized what had happened was fear.
"I woke up in New York City yesterday to a notice that our flight to ORD had been cancelled due to lack of crew. I had a different record locator than my boys, but they were linked together in the system," Ripmaster, who works for a social media technology platform, told Insider.
She said she was rebooked to leave later Saturday, but "the system had unlinked my boys' reservation (from mine) and said the next flight they could get them on was Tuesday out of LGA."
Ripmaster then spent hours on the phone with customer service trying to fix the frustrating situation. "When I did reach someone, the American Airlines woman I spoke to was amazing and helpful – but the process is broken," she said.
Ripmaster and her boys finally were rebooked to fly together through Nashville, where they were Sunday at the time of her discussion with Insider. She said they were flying back home, to Chicago, later in the day, although that flight was delayed.
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There was always the train or a greyhound Bus. Problem solved, the kids would have loved the train ride.
A simple phone call to American Airlines would have cleared up the matter.
My daughter’s flight got cancelled and the airline rebooked it to Dayton instead of her original destination Daytona Beach. She fixed it with one phone call. But daughter is a lawyer who passed her Bar exam on first attempt.
If your flight is cancelled, or delayed past a time you can accept, your best bet to get what you want is to rebook it yourself. Most airlines have an app that will let you rebook, or at least find the flights you want that will get you home and you can call in. I don’t understand people waiting days to get home. It’s inconvenient, but most times you can find an alternate route home.
All part of the plan to make sure the Serfs lose their mobility.
"Retirement" is simply a euphemism for "refusing the jab".
Please forgive me master!!!! Arghhhhhh!!!
In order to fly they have to have a parent/guardian take them to the ticket counter and there must be a verifiable address and a named person with a phone number to pick them up. If the kids were with the mother, and she left 2 days previous she could not do that, Children that young could not board.
The airline industry was already struggling with a critical shortage of pilots before COVID came along. It was so bad, that they were hiring anyone who had a multi engine rating and a fairly low number of hours (the airlines paid for them to get their Airline Transport Pilot rating and of course they received extensive training necessary to fly jets). I personally know of them even hiring pilots in their early 60s, which meant that those pilots could only fly for at most a very few short years before hitting the mandated retirement age of 65. Even so, the shortage was so bad that the airlines were willing to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in training costs in such older pilots just to get them for a short time.
So when COVID hit and the incredibly foolish “vaccine” mandates were foisted upon pilots, the resulting firings, retirements, and resignations of pilots caused this fragile system to break. All to force pilots to take an experimental drug that was never a true vaccine in the first place. It doesn’t prevent infection nor stop transmission, therefore it’s not a vaccine at all. In fact, it is now becoming crystal clear that it actually makes the “vaccinated” MORE likely to contract COVID and MORE likely to be hospitalized or die, something that was predicted by Robert Malone, Geert Vanden Bossche, and others in the field.
We have wrecked our air transportation industry, along with the general economy, for absolutely nothing. Unfortunately many, including even some on FR, still hold fast to the lies because they’re deeply affected by the “normalcy bias”, and to admit the truth is too difficult. I retired somewhat early at the end of 2021 because of the absurd vaccine mandate, and am now working remotely for a consulting firm. It is incredible how many of my “vaccinated” coworkers, as well as “vaccinated” friends are now getting COVID over and over again, while those of us who declined it have been completely fine. That is resulting from the “vaccines” causing Antibody Dependent Enhancement, the same effect that has doomed every previous attempt to create a vaccine against a coronavirus.
Many highly credentialed and knowledgeable vaccinologists and microbiologists warned about this, but few listened.
“When I did reach someone, the American Airlines woman I spoke to was amazing and helpful”
Candidate for non-story of the year.
The airline industry was in trouble long before the vaccine mandates which I did not support. The vaccine mandate may have contributed to some worker shortage but is far from the only cause.
At the height of the pandemic when covid was much deadlier than it is now the vaccine protected against fatal illness - there were relatively few ICU admissions and deaths among the vaccinated - I was working in those ICUs as were multiple family members across the country. It was not perfect but better than nothing for the at risk population. It did not cause you to become magnetic or any of the other crazy things attributed to it. Those vaccinated are not more likely to be hospitalized or die there are just a lot more of them than the unvaccinated and covid has morphed into a very different disease than it once was.
Congratulations on remaining unvaccinated as you appear to take it as a point of pride. My family and colleagues made different choices and not one of us regrets it, but our vaccination status is not a point of pride either way. I also have not lost one family member or colleague to covid and I know hundreds of providers who spent every day in the belly of the beast and chose to be vaccinated
What is tiresome is those who would blame every death or societal problem on the vaccine. It is a tool like any other that some chose to get others did not. Now if you want to blame the government for insane policies including mask mandates and lockdowns that did far more harm than the vaccine mandates I already said I was against I’m with you.
Don’t know where you got that idea. I used to send my daughter to visit her auntie. I would get her checked in and we would sit at the gate together until boarding time at which point I would hand her off to a stew and tell her to behave herself. Told the stew she’d do almost anything for a glass of chocolate milk
The phone call isn’t so simple nowadays. These days, a phone call is a big commitment.
Nowadays, if you call AA’s reservation number, you might have to wait hours to speak with an agent.
That person is confused
Remember that commercial where all the guys on the army base were calling the agent to make their reservations, and then they ask the agent afterwards, “How many calls did you take today?”, and she says, “One!”
I had the same experience. I flew multiple times as a minor. The stewardesses were always great about it.
Yes, if you ever get passed the computerized responses.
I dread calling Xfinity. It is easier to find a hot mistress than getting someone live on the phone at Xfinity.
“”Retirement” is simply a euphemism for “refusing the jab”.”
Golden Parachutes.
Your opinion is valued if you really are a MD. Most anti-vaxxers are medically unqualified to judge anything medical.
Yep. That’s the one.
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