As you make travel plans between now and the end of hurricane season, which is November 1st, be sure to remember that hurricanes can affect your travel plans by causing
airline delays even in areas that are far from the hurricane.
Not exact matches
Not only does an
airline with a monopoly on a route experience greater
delays, but it will also pad its schedule to make customers feel like they arrived promptly
even if they could have arrived sooner, according to a Kellogg School of Management study.
Even with four4 hours of
airline delays, including a couple of hours sitting on the runway in Dallas waiting out a thunderstorm, I didn't get discouraged.
When it was time to finally depart Chicago, we had so many
delays taking off and
even when landing in L.A. My parents and I ended up missing our connection flight to Melbourne, but the
airline had already set us up at a hotel room for the night.
However
even then the CAA says it doesn't separately collect reasons for a flight
delay and it will rely on
airlines to explain what caused a
delay.
Google's little personal travel planner will
even tell you if a certain flight tends to be
delayed a lot, if there are cheaper or more convenient options at a nearby airport, or if there is a specific
airline the search engine hasn't been able to cover.
It protects you from
delayed flights, cancelled
airline tickets, loss of money or credit cards, and can
even cover medical related expenses.
Even domestically, the hectic nature of business travel can make it painful to cancel a trip (and sometimes, especially given recent
airline delays, the trip is canceled without warning whether you like it or not.)
Most
delays are due to bad weather, which is beyond an
airline's control, and the bad weather causing your flight
delay could
even be in a city not on your itinerary.
Baggage
delay and loss —
Even if an
airline loses your baggage, the
airline typically won't cover the cash value of the lost items.
Airline delays caused by weather, mechanical breakdown and
even labor strikes are normally covered by travel insurance.
The money reaches your bank account in a few minutes of the
airline operator informing you of a
delay or cancellation, without
even lodging a claim.
Google is now using artificial intelligence to tell people using its Flights service when a flight is
delayed before the
airlines disclose — or
even know — this.