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Is A $100 Voucher Fair Compensation For A 2.5 Hour Flight Delay?

Flight Delay
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A few months back, I was flying home from Florida with my kids with Southwest Airlines.

I got a notification that there was a flight delay on our connecting flight which would now get us home around 2.5 hours later than expected.

When our first flight landed, I called Southwest to get some info regarding the situation with our connecting flight. Continue reading Is A $100 Voucher Fair Compensation For A 2.5 Hour Flight Delay?

Did JetBlue Compensate Me For A Broken IFE?

JetBlue

There are a bunch of reasons why we like flying with JetBlue.

The airline offers a good amount of legroom, free snacks, free Wifi (with their FlyFi service) and entertainment options like DirecTV and movies.

While I rarely watch movies anymore, I do like to pass the timeย during a flight watching (a movie) unless I’m busy tending to one of the kids. (Lucas is good on his own during flights unless he needs to take a trip to the restroom.) Continue reading Did JetBlue Compensate Me For A Broken IFE?

Family Gets $11,000 From Delta Airlines For Giving Up Seats

Delta Airlines
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Some of us might not want to volunteer to give up our seats on a flight but one family made a small fortune doing so.

The family was supposed to fly from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Florida with Delta Airlines last week when storm delays caused the airline to offer money to those volunteering to be bumped.ย  Continue reading Family Gets $11,000 From Delta Airlines For Giving Up Seats

Cancelled Flight in Biz, Flew Coach. Am I Owed Compensation?

cancelled flight

A couple of days back I wrote about how British Airways owed me 40,500 Avios + $143.79 due to a mistake they made with a recent booking.

Because of a BA error, I ended up with a cancelled flight from New York to Toronto. After a lengthy call, Kim, Lucas and I were booked for the following week in business class.

More bad luck hit us on flight day and our flight was cancelled. Continue reading Cancelled Flight in Biz, Flew Coach. Am I Owed Compensation?