Some of you may know about the 'severe' weather in England, most importantly the south of England. Heathrow (England's main airport) has basically shutdown all of it's runways today and has cancelled nearly all flights both in and out. I was due to fly today but obviously, it was cancelled. This is fine, I can't help what mother nature does but it's how Virgin Atlantic handled my situation. Here were my three (really two) options: Reschedule my flight for a later day. Total refund of my ticket including taxes. Long-term reschedule. ie: Go in February, summer, etc Now these all seem like fair answers to the problem, right? Wrong. Guess when the next 'open' flight to Heathrow is? The 29th! I didn't think I heard the woman right at first. Also, guess how long it will take for me to get my money back! Eight weeks! Even if I wanted to book another flight to Paris and take the train I really don't have luxury anymore seeing as I don't have an extra grand lying about. The third is just absurd. No comment. On top of this, they won't even put me on a standy-by list. I have found a flight to Heathrow with United on the 26th and that's the best I can do with the money situation in-mind. Just thought I'd vent somewhere.
So this means I won't be celebrating with my family and I'll only be able to visit England for 10 days instead of 17. At least I'm getting paid for all this, I guess.
I used to take the Dulles to Heathrow all the time. It's an easy flight. There's nothing out of Shannon? I bet Ryan Air has a cheap flight to Ireland. But if the problem is paying for two tickets, I retract my suggestion. Eight weeks? That's criminal. I always thought Branson made his billions by putting the customer first.
http://www.flightline.co.uk/traveln...sruptions-update-130pm-on-21st-december-2010/ Gatwick is all open? see if you can get booked there instead, maybe get an extra 2-3 days earlier? dunno if they fly international though.
Anything from now to 24th is just way too expensive. Actually, Dulles to Ireland and then a flight from there to Manchester is a good idea -- I'll check Kayak. I've always had great experiences with Virgin so I was shocked when I heard all this bullshit.
I'm looking to fly to before Xmas for around the price I paid for my original tickets ($1K), that way Virgin can rebook me with another airline. I guess that's the only good move they have done since this shit went down.
I take it you missed the picture of the folks in the UK standing is a line for the train. The line of people was said to be 1 and 1/5 miles long. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ven-hours-3C-conditions-trains-cancelled.html One and a fifth miles of people! I live in the mountains. When storms come through, the major Interstate highway can be Closed for many hours, open briefly, then closed again for many hours, with little indication when it might re-open or what a traveler should do. When Mother Nature strikes with full forces, there is not much transportation companies, governments or individuals can do. Planes, trains and automobiles. Either way when nature strikes you got problems.
It's Jesus' fault. If he'd been born in July like a normal person you'd never have this problem. barfo
Not when it's snowing man! Not when it's snowing. (snowflakes might short out the computers and then everything would grind to a halt...... oh wait.)
