Horace Horsecollar
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 10, 2002
That's an excellent suggestion.You can call them and see if they will change you to something more accomodating (if you wish). They should do it at no charge. We had a "schedule change" for our trip tomorrow and I called and they got us on an earlier flight at no charge. Now whether that flight leaves or not is a different story, but at least they were good about it (I made the change about 2 weeks ago).
Getting on an earlier flight has three advantages:
1. Being able to use DME luggage transfers
2. Arriving at the resort at a more reasonable time
3. Not being on the last flight of the day if there are operational issues that day
American is very good about accommodating passengers' needs when there's a substantial change in flight times. Even if someone originally picked an evening flight because it was much less expensive than a more convenient daytime flight, American agents will, on request, put passengers affected by a schedule change onto a more expensive flight with no change fee or fare difference, as long as there's room.