AHHH Airtran keeps changing my return flight

[helenk]

The flight home was 8:05 pm, then 7:15 pm, then 6:15 and now it is 5:55pm. This is really getting to me. By the time our trip comes around, we will be leaving in the early afternoon.
Changing airlines is not an option because the cost has gone up so high for the good times. The 5:55 flight is now the last flight out except for one that leaves at 8:00pm but does not get into phl until after midnight.
I know that there could be worse things, and this is kind of petty, but I have never had an airline change the flight so many times.

 

[safetymom]

I think this is the new way of the airlines. Since 9/11 airlines have been trying all sorts of things. Cutting flights, changing flight times, putting more seats in, packing more people in the planes. Don't look for it to improve in the near future.

That is one of the reasons that business travel is down. You can't count on flight times any more. The airlines have to find their way to stay profitable and they haven't found it yet!