What to do when bumped from a flight
From last week’s New York Times (via TheLobby.com): Tips and strategy on what to do when you don’t make your flight.
- Choose your airline wisely. Continental, JetBlue and Southwest are among airlines that re-book you manually, which puts your flight destiny in your hands (as in, whoever gets re-booked first, wins).
- Call your airline or travel agency as soon as you know you got bumped.
- Use the “Rule 240 transfer.” This is a remnant from the pre-1978 world of air travel, when things were more regulated, and airlines sort of had to book you with another airline if you were bumped and the other airline could get you where you were going faster.
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