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    • cloudy with a chance of nissans

      Texas Car Dealership Will Give Away Cars If It Rains

      What's a great way for a car dealer to get attention during a drought? Offer customers a free car if it rains. No, the dealership owner won't be standing out front in a poncho, handing out keys to everyone who passes by on the appointed day. It's cleverer than that. More »

      3:48 PM on Thu Jul 23 2009
      By Laura Northrup
      17,620 views, 50 comments

      Most discussed CreativeLinks: I am really curious how they define "purchasing" -- since many people tend to lease new cars. more »

    • amtrak

      Amtrak Strands Passengers Without Food, Water, Toilets

      About 450 Amtrak passengers were stranded in Chicago's Union Station for almost 24 hours — without food, water or access to reliable functioning restrooms. More »

      4:59 PM on Tue Dec 23 2008
      By Meg Marco
      37,300 views, 96 comments

    • travel

      Delta Helps You Escape Chicago Before The Winter Storm Of Doom

      There's a nasty winter storm coming to Chicagoland — a mix of rain, sleet and snow that might result in 12" of accumulation. Jennifer was scheduled to fly right in the middle of it. More »

      12:39 PM on Thu Dec 18 2008
      By Meg Marco
      8,446 views, 62 comments

    • U.S. Airways

      U.S. Airways: Abandoning Passengers "Is Not A Compensation Issue"

      Remember the 274 passengers stranded by U.S. Airways in Punta Cana? According to the airline, compensating those passengers would be unsafe. Seriously, that's their argument: More »

      4:00 PM on Sun Aug 31 2008
      By Carey Alexander
      29,917 views, 60 comments

    • U.S. Airways

      U.S. Airways Boots 274 Stranded Passengers From Caribbean Airport, Refuses To Pay For Hotels

      Armed guards ordered 274 stranded passengers out of the Punta Cana airport with no place to go after bad weather forced U.S. Airways to cancel its flight from the Dominican Republic to Philadelphia. Several passengers ended up sleeping in a bus after the airline responded to Tropical Storm Fay by asking passengers to pick up their luggage and get lost. More »

      12:15 PM on Sat Aug 16 2008
      By Carey Alexander
      44,072 views, 95 comments

      Latest by hobbs357: I was there at the airport in Punta Cana when Fay cancelled my flight also. And yes, I had to more »

    • united

      United's "Bad Weather" Excuse Isn't Very Believable

      Jonathan wants to know how long an airline can blame a cancellation on bad weather, and whether there's any way to get such a claim rejected when it's used inappropriately. Is it legitimate, for example, to say tomorrow's flight is canceled due to weather, when what you really mean is an isolated thunderstorm the day before—which evidently affected no other airlines in the area—triggered a domino effect in getting a certain plane to the right airport a full day later? More »

      4:00 PM on Thu Jul 31 2008
      By Chris Walters
      8,623 views, 40 comments

      Latest by Atomic Bowling: @: um, i just gotta comment on this one... why couldn't they use the crew waiting to go one place more »

    • american airlines

      Dear American Airlines Employees: "I Hope That One Day You Find A Good Paying Job With An Employer That Cares About You"

      AJ writes in to let us know that he too was lied to by American Airlines. They canceled his flight(s) from Pittsburgh to Austin (by way of Dallas). He called the 1-800 number but was met with a CSR who used "bad weather in Dallas" as an excuse, and told him there was no way to get him to Austin on time. More »

      1:05 PM on Tue Jun 24 2008
      By Meg Marco
      14,615 views, 60 comments

      Most discussed jsdube: I agree with PurpleSun. There are plenty of ways weather could have been the root-cause of the cancellation while Dallas more »

    • travel

      Nasty Spring Snowstorm Affecting Flights In And Out Of Chicago

      A nasty spring snowstorm is messing with Chicago says reader humphrmi: More »
    • travel

      American Airlines Dallas Cancellation Party Not Going So Well

      Reader Drew is currently stranded at Dallas Fort Worth airport and would like to speak with someone from American Airlines on the telephone. Unfortunately, we're the only ones he can reach. More »

      6:26 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
      By Meg Marco
      11,150 views, 68 comments

    • Snow in Cleveland is affecting air travel. The FAA says:
      Due to WEATHER / SNOW-ICE, there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Cleveland, OH (CLE). This is causing some arriving flights to be delayed an average of 3 hours and 12 minutes.
      Continental, which uses Cleveland as a hub, is canceling lots of flights. [Ohio.com]

      17 comments

    • It's snowing in NYC, causing the usual flight delays and cancellations. The FAA says that JFK, LaGuardia and Newark are expecting arrival delays of three to seven hours. The FAA is also reporting that 27 percent flights at Philadelphia International Airport have been canceled. Feel free to share your thoughts about this with us at tips@consumerist.com. [CNN]

      29 comments

    • travel

      5 Things Airlines Don't Want You To Know About Weather Delays

      When an airplane is delayed due to the weather, they get out of a lot of obligations, and there's little oversight over what they get to call a weather-related delay. Elliot.org interviewed industry experts and came up with five interesting things the industry is keeping from you about weather delays... More »

      3:00 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
      By Ben Popken
      13,364 views, 33 comments

      Latest by foxmajik: It seems like you quoted an awful lot of the relevant data from this article, so I think this might more »

    • travel

      American Airline's Weather Delay Excuse Successfully Debunked

      You don't need to hire a forensic meteorologist to dispute an airline's so-called weather delay and get the compensation or rebooking you're deserved, sometimes you just need the internets! Here's how Jasmine did just that with a recent flight on American Airlines:

      My last canceled flight was blamed on the weather. I called a friend with the internet, had them look up the weather at my destination and en route (which was fine). I went back to the desk and said, "The weather is fine. You sure there aren't other problems?" That's when then he said that it was the weather AND technical problems with the plane...

      At that, I mentioned the rule, and suggested he try to re-book me, which he did.

      See, they didn't lie, they just didn't tell you the whole truth, because that would have cost them money. That Apple commercial with the pilot using his iPhone to question a 3-hour weather delay? That could be you.

      9:36 AM on Thu Jan 17 2008
      By Ben Popken
      4,135 views, 41 comments

      Latest by Mary Ratliff: @belisle: I never said they never mislead people. I said that believing that it's so simple as to check the weather more »

    • how to

      Dispute An Airline's So-Called "Weather Delay"

      Unless it's due to the weather, if there's a flight delay or cancellation, passengers are entitled to some kind of refund, unless of course it's due to the weather, but are flight delays as due to the weather as often as airlines say they are? And how would you go about proving otherwise? Well, as a fascinating interview posted over at airline blog Elliot.org informs us, you could always hire the services of a forensic meteorologist. More »

      3:39 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
      By Ben Popken
      12,511 views, 26 comments

      Latest by Gryphin: First time posting, never felt a need to add to any of the comments that were already on a story, more »

    • problem solving

      Solve Problems On Cruise Ships By Staging A Mutiny!

      When storms force your cruise to skip ports of call, don't sit idly in your cabin watching the whitecaps break menacingly against the ship. Go find your fellow passengers and stage a mutiny! At least that is what passengers onboard the Sapphire Princess did when two typhoons kept the ship from planned port calls in Vietnam, Japan, and Taiwan.
      At one point, with passengers assembled in the ship's theater, she said, "the attorney jumped up and grabbed the microphone away from the assistant cruise director and said: 'We're taking over the stage! We have a petition!'"
      More »

      1:15 PM on Sun Dec 16 2007
      By Carey Alexander
      9,653 views, 67 comments

      Latest by PauletteHoddie: Well, I work for Princess Cruises; I am not a spokesperson nor am I making a comment on behalf of more »

    • complaints

      US Airways Isn't Flexible About Their $100 Flight Change Fee

      Reader Sara writes to U.S. Airways: More »
    • Some airlines, including JetBlue, Delta and Continental are waiving change fees due to a nasty storm in the northeast. [Newsday]

      1 comment

    • weather

      Severe Flooding In The Northwest Knocks Out T-Mobile's Customer Service

      Mary writes: More »
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