Flights booked thru Alaska....call to confirm your flights!

[ADisneyPrincess]

The one good thing about all this is that most airlines are very flexible if they change your flight with letting you choose how you want it to be. Does that make sense? Say they cancel your flight, you have a lot of say in what flight they put you on in its place. It can often work to your advantage. Just keep checking!

 

[cruise cruise cruise]

The one good thing about all this is that most airlines are very flexible if they change your flight with letting you choose how you want it to be. Does that make sense? Say they cancel your flight, you have a lot of say in what flight they put you on in its place. It can often work to your advantage. Just keep checking!

Yes, flexibility as long as you know in advance and there is still availability on the flight you are wanting to choose

I worry with my party of 4, one being a companion certificate and the others being really good pricing bookings that space will be limited.

Or does Alaska operate under the "once you have a ressie, all ressies are the same catagory??"

 

[ADisneyPrincess]

Yes, flexibility as long as you know in advance and there is still availability on the flight you are wanting to choose

I worry with my party of 4, one being a companion certificate and the others being really good pricing bookings that space will be limited.

Or does Alaska operate under the "once you have a ressie, all ressies are the same catagory??"

In my past experience Alaska has operated under the "once you have a ressie" category. As you say, as long as you know in advance (keep a close eye on things) and if there is availability, they will let you change to the flights that work best for you. If you get resistance you need to point out to them that they made the initial change and it doesn't work for you. The problems come if you don't check and suddenly it's time for your trip and things have changed and the flights are full.

 

[auntyjenn]

My Delta flights have changed about 20 times since February. I was getting e-mail notices, but I can also look them up online with my conf. numbers, so that's nice.

 

[Rainforest_Elf]

So I set up an alert on Alaskaair.com to have them notify me of any changes. As of right now, my flight in 8 days is still a purchaseable flight and is listed on the website. Should I still call and confirm that there's been no changes? It seems like they would email me if they had been altered in some way, right?

 

[JadeDarkstar]

when im taking flights i call about every two weeks and then a week before i go and 2days just to make sure nothing changes.

 

[toocherie]

Delta just changed my nonstop from LAX to Orlando to a "one-stop" through Atlanta--won't work with my Mom, who's disabled.

So we're back on a non-stop but leaving at 10 a.m. instead of 10 p.m. (we were originally on a red-eye). They never notified me--I checked and saw that it had changed. Because of the change I had to book another night with DVC.

 

[disneymom8589]

We have a flight booked to Long Beach in December and when I found out they were cancelling and changing Alaska flights, I called Alaska. There were some minor changes, but thankfully, no cancellation!

 

[toocherie]

We have a flight booked to Long Beach in December and when I found out they were cancelling and changing Alaska flights, I called Alaska. There were some minor changes, but thankfully, no cancellation!

I'm glad for you=but I would still periodically check. I just checked three weeks ago on my Oct. 31 flight and there were minor changes; before they completely cancelled my flight on Delta in the past week!

 

[Rainforest_Elf]

when im taking flights i call about every two weeks and then a week before i go and 2days just to make sure nothing changes.

jade, is there a rule of thumb as far as what to do when you call to confirm a flight? Do you just call and say "hi I'm so and so, I'm flying this day, I'd like to confirm it?" or what? I've never called to confirm before so I'm kinda at a loss as to what to do

 

[TripHHH]

In response to cruise cruise cruise... Once you have a reservation, it is good...no matter whether companion tickets, super cheap price, etc. I am flying with a companion ticket in two weeks. Our flight was cancelled and we were switched toa flight at a later time. I called Alaska to get it changed to an earlier time than originally scheduled and they were very accommodating...even with the companion ticket. It doesn't have to be the same class or have certain seat types open. She put us on a flight that was almost full...no problems.

 

[northshoremama]

we leave SEA for SNA in about 11 days...and i called about a week ago, and so far nothing has change (both going to SNA and coming back to SEA)...but to be safe, i'll be calling again next week!