{"id":209,"date":"2013-05-08T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2013-05-19T10:52:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T15:52:23","slug":"internet-plane-ticket-lesson-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/08\/internet-plane-ticket-lesson-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Plane Ticket Lesson #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The saga of buying airline tickets over the Internet did not end with the <a href=\"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/sometimes-i-feel-like-im-losing-my-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\">$200-dollar lesson<\/a> that I was previously given. \u00a0Because we didn&#8217;t show up for our original flight from Little Rock to Washington, we became a \u201cno-show\u201d. \u00a0As I learned, that meant that our entire trip had been canceled by American.\u00a0If you don&#8217;t show up for one leg of you flight, your entire itinerary will be canceled.\u00a0So, when I logged on to try to check in for our flight tomorrow, that&#8217;s the message I received\u2014trip canceled. \u00a0That news caused me to tighten up quite a lot.<\/p>\n<p>I called the American reservation desk to learn more about the rules. If you are a \u201cno-show\u201d, from that point forward, your tickets have no value. Ouch! I whined and whined and bitched. After the reservation clerk checked a few times with someone higher up (at my insistence), our tickets were reinstated. However, because we went from having a round trip ticket to a one-way ticket, we were charged a change fee. At first, the change fee was $54 for each ticket. But, I kept whining until I got that number down to $29.<\/p>\n<p>On reflection, I concluded that there was no way to avoid a change fee if any change is made to an itinerary. And, of course, we technically changed our trip by not showing up for the first flight.<\/p>\n<p>Another lesson learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saga of buying airline tickets over the Internet did not end with the $200-dollar lesson that I was previously given. \u00a0Because we didn&#8217;t show up for our original flight from Little Rock to Washington, we became a \u201cno-show\u201d. \u00a0As I learned, that meant that our entire trip had been canceled by American.\u00a0If you don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qUzP-3n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}