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AA Just Cancelled Our Flights in December
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03/19/2018 03:30 PM
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Heads up to anyone who took advantage of those great fares to SXM back in February, outbound through CLT, and home through MIA for December 2018...just checked on our flights as I do every few weeks, and found that all our flights had been cancelled. We're now outbound out of DTW, to SXM thru MIA, arriving at 4:13pm, CLT flights are gone. Coming home, they dropped the 9am flight, and had us overnighting in MIA, with a flight getting into DTW at 4:30pm the next day. I called AA, and was able to get home the same day, but with 2 connections now. Might want to check, as they didn't send any type of notice about the changes.
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Re: AA Just Cancelled Our Flights in December
[Re: gomer36]
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03/19/2018 03:54 PM
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Becomming common for AA ...Bait & Switch....(my opinion)
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Re: AA Just Cancelled Our Flights in December
[Re: boucharda]
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03/19/2018 04:21 PM
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Becomming common for AA ...Bait & Switch....(my opinion) I don't think it's a bait and switch. They are working around flight demands and what inbound and outbound flights SXM can handle in it's present state.
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Re: AA Just Cancelled Our Flights in December
[Re: gomer36]
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03/19/2018 04:40 PM
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I don’t think it’s a bait and switch situation either but as another who is sort of caught up in it, it really irritates me. We thought we had great flights and times and into our regional airport less than a half hour from home, no less. Now they’ve got us doing three legs over a 27 hour travel span. I’m just cooling my jets until the dust settles and hoping they may reinstate some additional flights to make things a little more palatable but if not, I’ll cancel and take my refund to use on another carrier, if there is one........
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Re: AA Just Cancelled Our Flights in December
[Re: gomer36]
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03/19/2018 05:03 PM
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AA has been changing its schedule twice a year for at least the past ten years but the Irma situation exacerbates the problem because there are so few slots available. We had our Easter flights changed a couple of times because of these change issues. I’ve just come to accept the changes as the norm when booking way in advance on AA. And it does happen on other carriers although seemingly not with the frequency of AA.
But on another note, we just flew AA to ANU without a hitch and on flights that were booked last September in response to SXM cancellations.
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Re: AA Just Cancelled Our Flights in December
[Re: gomer36]
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03/20/2018 09:00 AM
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I too have had my AA flights from Washington (DCA) rerouted through MIA instead of CLT. I am willing to put up with the changes because I got my R/T tix for 27,000 AA miles when I bought in January. By the way, United is selling its Saturday to Saturday IAD-SXM-IAD non-stop for <$500.
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Re: AA Just Cancelled Our Flights in December
[Re: JimandBeth]
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03/20/2018 09:43 AM
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AA did the same thing to us also in Dec. Our MIA. flight landed 5 hours after our connection to PHL. It was the final straw that made us change our plans all together. Its has since straightened out, but still went from a 6-7 hour trip to a 21 hour trip.
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Re: AA Just Cancelled Our Flights in December
[Re: JimandBeth]
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03/20/2018 10:09 AM
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AA has us participating in some type of time travel experiment on our connections. Our connecting flights in both directions are all leaving several hours before the incoming flights land! OMG! The way you describe that is too funny. I spit coffee. lol Time travel experiment. Good one.
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Re: AA Just Cancelled Our Flights in December
[Re: gomer36]
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03/20/2018 11:44 AM
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Heads up to anyone who took advantage of those great fares to SXM back in February, outbound through CLT, and home through MIA for December 2018...just checked on our flights as I do every few weeks, and found that all our flights had been cancelled. We're now outbound out of DTW, to SXM thru MIA, arriving at 4:13pm, CLT flights are gone. Coming home, they dropped the 9am flight, and had us overnighting in MIA, with a flight getting into DTW at 4:30pm the next day. I called AA, and was able to get home the same day, but with 2 connections now. Might want to check, as they didn't send any type of notice about the changes. Thanks for the heads up. We had confirmed tickets from Wilmington to Charlotte to SXM, leaving November 24th and returning the same way on December 13th, and we had never received any notice that the flights have been changed. When we looked on line, it says the flight exist, but our online reservation says there are schedule changes. When we looked at the changes, it has us leaving the 25th but now through Miami and we would have to overnight in Miami for the flight on the 26th. Again, thanks for the heads up so we could adjust our flights to get there on the 25th. Our flight back now requires an overnight in Charlotte. And I understand that this is all the result of the damages caused by Irma, but I still hate the fact that AA doesn't send you adequate notification that there are significant schedule changes. They did say that there is a chance that direct flights from Charlotte may start latter in the year. I am not holding my breath.
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Re: AA Just Cancelled Our Flights in December
[Re: SXMScubaman]
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03/20/2018 12:45 PM
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I have that checked in my profile with AA but I don't actually remember getting any such alerts. Although we almost always do the nonstop from Miami and there are very few changes on that route.
In a somewhat related note, people talk badly about Frontier all the time, but they changed my flight to Indiana in May by half an hour and I got THREE email notifications from them that the schedule had changed. One would think that AA could send at least one email with any schedule change, especially ones like are being described here, regardless of whether you put it in your profile or not. Just sayin'...
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Re: AA Just Cancelled Our Flights in December
[Re: SXMScubaman]
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03/20/2018 12:49 PM
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Do you have email notification checked in your profile? If not, do so. We had that set up and we still didn't get notified. Under the be notified section , on the AA web site, and we did not get notified.
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