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We are flying on AA from DCA to Key West in December, booked with avios on ba.com. The original 11.30 am (perfect!) departure has been cancelled and we have been provisionally moved to the 8.30 am departure which is now the only direct service that day. This is incredibly inconvenient for several reasons (e.g. we would be 3 hours early to collect our hire car) and I’m mulling over what to do.
Are the new seats on the earlier flight now guaranteed or is AA allowed to sell them to someone else if we don’t accept them straight away? Obviously there are no UK261 provisions here so I’m not sure where we stand. I’d like to take at least a few days to think about possible alternatives.
Always a decision. I like to feel things are confirmed and often accept or rebook quickly, but typically waiting for yet more changes is the better approach. No idea about whether those seats are held or not, I suspect they are.
No options with a change in CLT?
The thing about accepting the changes is it’s final, and then they make another smaller change of say 20 minutes, which is a tipping point, but as they reference it to your accepted change rather than the original time you have much less leverage when trying for an alternate.Thanks yes, considering all that. OH says he would rather get up at the crack of dawn and go direct than get a later indirect flight, plus we’ll still be jetlagged and probably waking up very early anyway. But I was looking forward to a civilised breakfast at the Willard then a leisurely taxi ride to the airport.
Obviously this is America so nothing’s guaranteed and there could well be future cancellations/changes/delays/bumping on the day!Thanks yes, considering all that. OH says he would rather get up at the crack of dawn and go direct than get a later indirect flight, plus we’ll still be jetlagged and probably waking up very early anyway. But I was looking forward to a civilised breakfast at the Willard then a leisurely taxi ride to the airport.
Obviously this is America so nothing’s guaranteed and there could well be future cancellations/changes/delays/bumping on the day!DCA is your saving grace here. The Willard is on the right road to make the journey a short doddle. I think you can still get breakfast at the Willard, just not leisurely perhaps.
Thanks – yes, used DCA before and it’s very convenient! I’m pathologically early for everything normally but thinking we’ll be fine if we get there at 6am for an 0830 flight? And we’ll probably have loads of time, I just stress like mad until we’re through security.
I’ll be Silver by then (hopefully) – is there a lounge we can use at DCA?
https://www.oneworld.com/airport-lounges
is useful for looking up lounges for BA Silver access and usually seems to be reasonably up to date. It shows 2 American Admirals Club lounges at DCA.
6:00 for 08:30 sounds more than generous for any domestic flight in the US but then it is decades since I have flown from DCA.
I should add that the 2 lounges are in different “concourses” so it may be worth looking at a map of DCA.
In my experience American tends to make a lot of small changes to their schedules, so there is plenty of this to change again before December.
My guess, but it is only a guess, is that you be protected on that new flight for now.
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