OK travel experts . . . question

[Tinkim]

A couple of months ago, I planned a somewhat impromptu trip to WDW. I knew that United was in chapter 11 and I was pretty sure Delta was also. I usually fly Southwest out of Manchester, NH but after patiently waiting for the Feb/March schedule to open up I was sadly disappointed to see that the fares were very high. So, I turned to Travelocity and found a good fare on US Air. You can see where this is going. Shortly after I bought the tickets I realized that in fact US Air was also in Chapter 11. Now I see that a flight attendant strike for US Air is also a possibility. Is there any chance in ***** that we will be flying on US Air come late Feb/early March or am I going to have four worthless tickets? Worst case scenario would be US Air cannot reorganize and they liquidate right? But now I am concerned that even if they are able to emerge from Chapter 11 there may very well be a flight attendant strike. Needless to say I am very worried that I am now the proud owner of an $800 piece of paper. I would love to cancel and re-book on another airline but the tickets are nonrefundable so I am stuck with them. I did pay with a credit card though if that makes any difference (but it was a few months back). Anyone else worried about their US Air tix? Do you have a back-up plan? Do I just show up at the airport and hope for the best and bring a credit card? **edited for bad spelling**

 

[safetymom]

There are 4 airlines that are planning on striking. I would suggest you visit www.flyertalk.com There is a USAirways forum there with lots of frequent flyers that can answer your question.

 

[CarolA]

There is nothing you can do right now.

If USAir goes under then you can ask your CC company for a refund, but not until them

If they go on strike it sounds like they will do thier wonderful random strike pattern so your flight could be fine or could be cancelled and you won't know until about 10 minutes before!

Personally I think the Union is being just plain stupid here, but....I guess they figure unemployment for thier members looks good!

(By the way Delta has not filed Chap 11)

 

[Kitty-chan]

I'd bet that you'll be fine here. It's true that there's nothing you could really do about it anyway. US Air and United have both been in Chapter 11 for a good while now (I'm a loyal United Mileage Plus member), and I've been watching them for a while, and my hunch is that the federal government has too much invested here to let the big airlines go belly-up without tons of warning and ramp-down time. (One could argue that this is not a good thing, and in fact it's probably bad for the industry, but nonetheless so far the government's behavior seems to suggest I'm right on this.)