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It Finally Happened: Booking a connecting flight on the wrong DAY
I considered myself a season FLYER who booked his own flights the
last million miles without a hitch until this year. :-) Did it twice! Booking a connecting flight on the wrong DATE is understandable if it involved crossing the International Date Line. As it happened when I flew to Singapore via LAX-Tokyo. I just got to my hotel a day late. :-) That's sort of like the experienced diver who, one the 15th dive of a one-week liveaboard trip, jumped into the water without weight or fins -- that happened to me once too. :-) But this time there was NO international date-line date change, and the originating city Papeete was only time zones (2 HOURS) different from LAX. It wasn't until checked onto the PPT to LAX flight on Tahiti Hui that my connecting flight (to check through my luggaged) was a date early and had already departed. But I didn't panic, though horrible thoughts of having to pay $1000 for a $200 ticket (booking on the same day of the flight) and having to pay a change-of-itinerary $100 penalty. I didn't even bother to make a long distance call to Continental Airlines about the missed connecting flights because I figure it is much more expeditious to go to the ticket counter and wing it from there. The GOOD news is that I got the SAME flights (a day later) without having to pay ANY penalty -- not sure if that was because I am a CO Platinum member or that's standard practice for anyone missing a connecting flight, for whatever reason. The other GOOD news is that I have entire day at the President's Club catching up on my emails in the account that was not accessible on the cruise-internet. I figured out the CAUSE of my booking error -- the 10 day cruise was actually 11 days!! (The first DAY didn't count! -- it was stated in the itinerary as the "embarkation day", and Day 1 started at Day 2). From now on, I would note the DATE, and count the DAYS much more carefully. -- Bob. |
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