Progress ... not! For more years than we can count, we have relied on US Air to get our bodies down to SXM without issue. Since the merger we have been pushed into using the AA routes more which includes going through Miami (we do not need to rehash this issue as it was reported a few weeks ago) and basically scheduling our flights with them. Last spring after checking in on my itinerary a few weeks before departure, we learned that the routes and time had been drastically changed (overnight stay in Miami on way home). Now as I had said, if any changes were ever made even if it changed the times by 10 minutes, we were always notified by US Air. There was no notification sent to us by AA. However, knowing the routes by heart (as I am sure that many of you TTOLer's do as well), I was able to fix our schedule snafu to accommodate us better without any additional charges since it was AA's doing. So fast forward to the present day and lo and behold AA has changed the routes and times again without notifying us. This one was better though as they had me arriving in Miami at 11:16 a.m and on an 11:00 a.m connecting time from MIA to SXM. Guess they just make a passenger transfer while the two planes are in the air at the same time. Flying home I would have arrived in MIA from SXM at 6:27 p.m except that the connecting flight they had listed for me left MIA at 9:31 a.m and arrived in DTW at 12:40 p.m ...hmmm not sure how that one is possible ... and no it was not for the next day it had the same date and day.

So to make a long gripe end, instead of flying down on a Tuesday I am now going to have to fly down on the Thursday and return home two days later as well. I go for one month so it is not as bad as some folks have with only a week off. Flexibility works for me.

I figure the next casualty will be our dividend miles that we have accumulated from US Air being wiped out instead of being transferred to AA. Ah mergers, aren't they great! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/circle.gif" alt="" />