With the new year upon us, many are returning home this weekend from their family/school/ winter break holidays. Fortunately at the moment the only severe weather/travel issues seem to be flight delays and some road flooding in the SE.
So, perhaps this year instead of restarting multiple weather threads with each travel challenge, we can consider having one consolidated “travel issues/weather challenges” thread, and include priority phone numbers for the airlines that might help get through to them faster and more efficiently.
I found the priority phone # that was handed to me by an agent during a horrible snowstorm causing massive cancellations, but it turned it to be from US Airways, which is now American airlines, so that phone # is unhelpful. That said, the following might be helpful if you encounter problems on Delta:
Delta priority phone #s: 800-221-1212 or 800-325-1551
Please add phone #s you have found helpful to reach airlines, and add weather/travel issues as they occur (perhaps please label the weather/travel posts with location so they are easy to identify in case there are several issues occurring at one time). Thanks in advance.
You my wish to look up the phone numbers for the airlines you are flying on and have those numbers in your phone so they are handy just in case. If you have status with hotels, you may want those in your phone as well.
Severe thunderstorm warnings are predicted here. Coming across Louisiana at the moment with a “level 3” weather alert, possible tornadoes and lots of flooding. Lovely. And there is also a “Winter Storm Isaiah”. Is that in the midwest?
** Update- many flights cancelled in/out of O’Hare .
Why is snow always forecast for holiday weekends? Weather forecasters here are saying significant snow for this Saturday, starting in the afternoon. Hoping my kid’s flight that arrived at 11:15 gets here!
It’s MLK weekend, and some schools still have a winter break that’s up to a week long.
Could be a rescheduling mess if the forecast is accurate!
Yeah, we learned a hard lesson this year for my freshman heading back after winter break. We booked her on a Sunday morning flight. On Friday her flight was cancelled due to the weather forecast (which incidentally turned out to be wrong and the other flights that did not cancel 2 days ahead of time took off no problem). All flights from our airport to her school airport quickly filled up and we had no options but to book a fight out of another airport about 2 hours away. Not a big deal but while the airline would pay if we flew out of our original airport, they would not cover the cost difference between the flight we booked many months ago on sale and the current cost because it was a different airport. SO, we had to cough up over $400. Next year we will plan on her heading back a day earlier so if there are weather issues we will have a little time buffer to get her back before classes start.
We too always padded kids’ return date(s). They continue to do the same and it saves a lot of stress.
Husband was scheduled to attend a conference this Saturday (northern New England). Yesterday – Monday – they already rescheduled it to end of March based on forecast. Snow predictions for Saturday have veered between 11"+ and flurries. I’m staying home with a book.