Before you travel during the holiday season make sure that you have a backup plan as what happened last year could reoccur and leave passengers stranded during the holiday season. You have specific rights as a passenger that airlines are not eager to tell you about so you need to ask for those passenger rights and make sure that they give you what you are entitled too.
Last year we completed a trip for the holidays and we were one of those families you saw on TV stranded in Denver, as airlines were trying to dig out of the mess that the blizzard left behind. It seemed that everyone we talked to with the airline failed to remember that we were traveling during Christmas and they felt that there was no special assistance to help those who’s flights had been canceled any additional help. We were told that we would not be able to get out of Denver until December 27.
That was not going to work, so we started going to gates of flights that were scheduled to depart and go on standby. Luck was on our side as the first flight we approached put us on the plane, and we were on our way. What is frustrating is that the airlines, did not see to it that were booked on that flight, but that the standard response was that there were no flights. So in your travels do not take what the operator tells you, and take your fate into you’re own hands.
