MissedFlight

Booked a ticket on AA.com for my daughter to travel from Germany to Austin for a wedding. The itinerary was Frankfurt to Munich to Charlotte to Austin, and I even used a systemwide upgrade for the Munich to Charlotte segment. The only concern was the one hour connection in...

I’m hoping someone here might know the answer because Princess support wouldn’t give me a clear one. I have an Alaska cruise departing from Vancouver soon. My concern is a hypothetical situation where my flight is delayed and I miss the initial embarkation. If that happened,...

Had a bit of a scare last week that might help someone else avoid the same panic. My earlier flight was delayed and I ended up missing my international connection. My biggest worry wasn’t even getting to my destination, it was that the airline’s no show policy would...

Honestly still pretty upset thinking about this. My family flew Buffalo to Chicago yesterday on the way to San Diego for my daughter’s spring break. My job is extremely stressful and my husband rarely gets time off, so this trip meant a lot to us. The first leg started going...

Had a frustrating experience at DTW today. Arrived at the airport 2.5 hours early. Cleared security, sat near the gate for over an hour. Walked up 30 minutes before departure and the gate was already closed. No staff there either. A few other passengers were in the same...

Last year I had an operational (non-weather) delay on Spirit that caused me to miss my connecting flight and resulted in $700+ in direct losses, plus professional disruption. What happened: • First leg delayed for operational reasons • Missed my onward connection • No meaningful...

I’ve got an international to international connection in Istanbul with 1h05 between flights. Both are on a single ticket. If I miss the second flight just because I’m not fast enough getting across the airport, what actually happens? Assuming the first flight is on time and...

Booked MEL to Hanoi with a layover in Hong Kong. Total ticket was about $1300 AUD. I missed the connecting flight in HK and they charged me $1600 AUD to rebook. That’s more than the original ticket cost. I know missing a connection can get expensive, but that number shocked me....

Originally had a 5h55 layover. Now my first flight is delayed by 5h20, so I’m left with less than 35 minutes to make the connection. Both flights are on one booking. The connecting flight is operated by Air Dolomiti, which I understand is basically part of Lufthansa Group. What...

This sounds like the classic runaround. Short layover in IST, first flight late by about 30 minutes, connection missed, stuck overnight even though there were later flights the same day. Then Turkish comes back with the canned response blaming ATC and taxi time so no...

Flew from Montreal to Munich and everything went sideways. Flight was delayed about 1 to 1.5 hours, then more delay waiting for a gate. After that, passport control was a mess because the automatic lines weren’t working. By the time I got through, I’d missed my connection. I was...

Missed my connecting flight and Turkish rebooked me on a later one. It was all on a single ticket. I ended up leaving the airport and staying at a hotel overnight. I’m trying to figure out what usually happens with checked luggage in this case. Is it possible to retrieve it and...

This is one of those stories where the details make it worse, not better. Being told the connection is fine, landing on time, and then literally being unable to deplane because Alaska assigned the same gate to both flights is just wild. Especially when there were empty gates...

Had a Frontier itinerary yesterday: Ontario, CA to Las Vegas to St. Louis, both Frontier flights. First flight was delayed due to Frontier maintenance. At the gate they told me I’d miss my connection and that the second flight would not be held. My options were to wait 48 hours...

Looking for real advice because I’m hitting a wall. We flew Muscat to Istanbul to Warsaw on one Turkish booking. First leg was delayed for operational reasons, which caused us to miss the Istanbul to Warsaw flight. We were rebooked much later and arrived about 10 hours late....

My partner was flying British Airways from Dubai to Inverness via Heathrow. The Dubai flight landed about an hour late, which cut the connection down to around 55 minutes. She made it to the gate with roughly 35 minutes to go, but was told she’d already been removed from the...

This happened during the big snowstorm in Germany around Jan 10. Original booking was Stuttgart to Munich to Seoul. Flight from Stuttgart was 3 hours late, so I missed the Munich to Seoul leg. At the service desk they rebooked me Munich to Amsterdam to Seoul the same evening. I...

First time flying American and this one really caught us off guard. Our first flight arrived 23 minutes late, and the connecting flight to Costa Rica had already closed boarding by the time we got there. We missed it by about 3 to 5 minutes. Multiple families were stranded...

This happened yesterday and I’m still trying to make sense of it. Had a round trip booking with Qatar from the US to Hyderabad via Doha. On the return, the first leg was operated by IndiGo but booked under a Qatar PNR. That flight was delayed, but my wife and I still made it...

I used to like Qatar Airways. Not anymore. My Jan 10 flight to Doha was delayed and I missed my connection. From that point on, everything went downhill. It took airport staff about three hours just to rebook us, and during that time they held our passports and boarding passes....

I booked a round trip through trip.com, but my car broke down and I missed the outgoing flight. I ended up buying a new one way ticket to get there and planned to just use my original return flight to come home. I’ve always heard that if you miss the outbound, the return gets...

My wife and I were flying DEL to SFO via IST on Dec 31. We booked through Booking.com, but under two separate PNRs, one for me and one for her. The first leg (DEL–IST) was sold as a Turkish flight number but operated by IndiGo. The layover was originally shown as 2h35m when we...

Had a 9am Frontier flight. Got to the airport more than 2 hours early. Checked my bag, TSA took about 20 minutes, all felt fine. Then after TSA they tell us we have to take ground transportation to a new terminal. No heads up earlier. Waited about 25 minutes just for the bus....

Was anyone else on the Dublin to Vancouver connection through Heathrow yesterday? DUB to LHR was nearly two hours late with zero explanation or apology. About 15 to 20 of us were clearly going to miss connections and the crew did absolutely nothing to help. No early deplaning....