<p>Problem all resolved - booked our flights this morning on the exact flight there and back I wanted, non-stop both ways for the original price I wanted, $250 taxes and all each.</p>
<p>After the fiasco over the weekend, I didn’t want to hold out for a few $$$ cheaper by waiting for a better mid-week rate or whatever. I’m satisfied. :)</p>
<p>I have a question: if you book using travelocity, orbitz, etc. rather than directly through the airline and your flight is cancelled due to weather or something outside your control, will the airline allow you to re-book? I saw on the American Airlines website that only those flights booked directly through them will be re-booked.</p>
<p>Glad you got the flights you wanted at a good price.</p>
<p>Sometimes the online travel agent may want you to go through them first to make changes, but you do have the same contract with the airline that any other passenger does (contract of carriage, not fare rules). You have a ticket and the airline has a responsibility to get you to your eventually get you to your destination. For awhile, some online travel agencies were charging extra cancellation charges if you made the decision to cancel your ticket, but that has probably changed. In short, when you buy a ticket, you have a sort of manufacturer’s warranty regardless of where you purchased the ticket.</p>
<p>abasket- If you have a chance-order the puffy tacos in San Antonio.</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if they do.</p>
<p>My husband and I were booking travel on USAir. He checked the cost one day, the next day it was up $50/ticket. He then discovered it was cheaper to book our tickets separately than together (which is also bizarre – together cost another $50/ticket).</p>
<p>While he is looking at the price on the computer, he calls me, and I log in to buy my ticket – and it comes up the original price he had seen the day before. I started buying it, and he said – “wait! look and see what it is for two tickets.” So I restart the process, and now the price is totally different from all the others, but still cheaper than what he was looking at.</p>
<p>So yes, the price seemed higher once they knew you were interested. And we ended up seeing four different prices for the same flight within five minutes. (And that was one crazy phone call.)</p>
<p>Puffy tacos? Yum. A certain place?</p>
<p>Just thought of another good thing about Southwest airlines-2 free check ins
abasket- Puffies at Los Barrios (did battle with Bobby Flay), Henry’s, Patty’s, many others- ask your concierge</p>
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<p>No. You hold a ticket with AA; your “importance” in re-booking will be calculated based on your frequent flyer miles to the airline. Whether you booked it through AA or someone else shouldn’t matter.</p>