Thread: Which senerio would you take to get home

What city is that jethawk?

Speaking of rerouting, whenever someone travels on my benefits without me, I act as their reservationist. I am sure that you guys probably do the same for friends and family. Two years ago my wife and mother went to Europe. They traveled SLC-CDG-ZRH-by car to MXP-TXL. On their way home they went TXL-CDG-EWR were the were supposed to travel from EWR-IAH-SLC. One of the afternoon flights from EWR-IAH never made it to EWR. There was weather somewhere and 200 passengers were left without a plane. So EWR-IAH went from multiple open flights to every flight being oversold. It was in the afternoon so I had about an hour window to get them on a flight so that they could make the connecting flight to SLC. In that hour I sent them to 4 different gates, in two different terminals, plus they came in a different terminal. I finally got them through IND so they went EWR-IND-IAH-SLC. The funny thing was they were running as fast as they could through the airport. In that hour they went through security 3 times, and made the flight within seconds of closing the door.

By the way when choosing the routing to the OP, it would depend on the time of day for me. If it is the first flight from MSP-SLC I would be on the nonstop for sure. Lots of rev passengers miss the first flight and fly standby later. It is usually my favorite option. Last flight of the night, I am going on the sure flight through the connecting city.