miss conecting flight ?

[celtic bhoy]

:jumping4: we fly out from aberdeen to heathrow then washington to orlando
on wed 15 12 04 for 3 weeks.
the flight yesterday from aberdeen to heathrow was delayed by 3 hours thus meant if we were going yesterday we would have missed the washington flight.
has anyone came accross this problem before, or do they no what happens

 

[Penny12]

Are both legs with the same airline? Usually when you check in at your home airport you're checking in for all legs of your flight at once so it's obvious to the airlines when you are stuck in transit because they can see exactly where you are. I believe when you finally arrive they'll have already arranged or will then try and just get you seats on the next available flight (I don't know what would happen if that flight wasn't until the next day, I imagine you'd be responsible for your own accomodation and could later claim on insurance)...but it's never actually happened to me so I'm just going by what snippets I've heard.

 

[Merylj]

Don`t know if this helps.
We booked our flights with Delta through Expedia, with the tighter security and immigration checks I contacted Expedia about what would happen if we missed our connecting flight. Expedia got in touch with Delta who have accepted responsibility should we be delayed. They would put us on the next flight.
Good luck.

Merylj

 

[jns]

if you have not booked your flights with the same airline it is your hard luck which happened us last year .flight was delayed on the way home 5 hours BTW we gave ourselves 4 hours between flights just in case. we were flying the last leg of our journey on the cheap airline we had to paid £60 each x4 just to get on standby 3 flights later we got on. there is a lot to say about direct flights
hopefully you will have no delays

 

[CarolynU]

I may be wrong, but if you are booked all the way with one airline, and the delay was connected to one of their inbound flights they will transfer you, and if that is not until the next day they will also pay for a hotel room. Just don't quote me on this though,because I'm not 100% certain.
Carolyn

 

[steve_rob]

This is true. If it's all one airline, then they take responsibility for either delaying the plane, or getting you on the next flight plus will put you up for the night and pay for your meals if neccesary. In fact, they may do this even if it's not all with one airline - as long as it's one they've got a partnership, code share or special agreement with.

I was set to fly once from San Francisco to Honolulu with United Airlines, then on to Hilo on the Big Island. But when we boarded at SFO, the pilot noticed something wrong with the plane (the infamous "light" in the cockpit) and we all had to disembark again. The problem was though that as the crew could only fly on a 747, we had to wait for a new one to fly in from elsewhere in the States (they only had a DC-10 spare at the airport I believe) and this wouldn't arrive until 6pm - seven hours after we were meant to take off. It also meant that I would miss my connecting flight as Hilo airport closes at 8pm.

They gave me two meal vouchers (lunch and dinner) that I could use at SF airport, booked me on the first flight the next morning to Hilo (5:30am!!!) and arranged for me to stay the night at one of the Honolulu airport hotels, plus paid for the shuttle bus to and from the hotel (admittedly there were about fifty people in the same boat). They would also have paid for breakfast, but as no restaurants at Honolulu airport opened until 6am, that wouldn't have been much use!

And the connecting flight I'd missed wasn't even with United, but with Aloha Airlines.

 

[MalcolmC]

I may be wrong, but if you are booked all the way with one airline, and the delay was connected to one of their inbound flights they will transfer you, and if that is not until the next day they will also pay for a hotel room. Just don't quote me on this though,because I'm not 100% certain.
Carolyn

We were stranded by Continental at Newark two years ago, on our return flight.

It wasn't their fault - a storm and we diverted to Washington. When we arrived in Newark the Manchester flight had just left leaving about 20 passengers behind.

Eventually they booked us on flights the following day (via Gatwick), gave us meal vouchers and finally gave us hotel vouchers - at 3:00 in the morning! This all took about five hours to arrange - fast they were not.

I think I got about two hours sleep that night.

 

[elisebutt]

We did the LHR/IAD/MCO route a couple of years ago and due to a late take off from LHR, we missed our Washington connections.
We were booked with United and they sorted us out some meal vouchers and put us onto the next flight to MCO, which was about another hour's wait.

 

[paulh]

when we whent in august when charley hit we we told at manchester that the last leg to tampa was canceled due to storm we were given 2 options 1 go home and come back next day 2 fly to chcargo and wait there (as we had not checked in befor tampa was shut we would have to look after our selfs rgarding food and any accomadion) we chose to fly to chicargo as the forcast was that charley wa a fast storm and that tampa would open when we got chicargo tampa was still closed but we were offered mimami which we took by the time we got to disney it was about the sametime as it would have been if we flew into tampa AA arline was great at sorting us out
Paulh