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Posted on 9/14/17 at 3:06 pm to buffbraz
The peripheral businesses would be my worry. The resorts will be up and running but will anyone else?
Posted on 9/15/17 at 11:13 am to buffbraz
I've found that the service people in the customer service departments of airlines have more power than they claim they do.
If you are NICE to them.... and I mean genuinely, sincerely, actually nice. They will break their "rules" and do stuff for you that they normally don't.
For example, we had a flight booked to SLC for a ski trip, but they changed the flight time from 6PM to 2PM.
Well, that was going to force me to take a day of vacation. Therefore, I'd rather take the 11am flight, but that costs $200/pp. And I had booked 4 flights ($800).
So, I call up the airline and am super friendly and nice while I explain that their change in flight time has inconvenienced me and I'd like an alternate flight.
The guy leaves and comes back on the line and asks what reason I have for wanting to change to the 11am flight.
Here's the cool part....
I said, "Ok. Because you are not telling me 'No', I assume that there is an answer that would allow me to rebook without the fees. Now, I don't know what you want to hear... but let's just pretend that I gave you the right answer."
And I engage in full radio silence while I let him think about it. And after a long pause, he laughs and rebooks the flights. ![](https://images.tigerdroppings.com/Images/Icons/Iconcheers.gif)
If you are NICE to them.... and I mean genuinely, sincerely, actually nice. They will break their "rules" and do stuff for you that they normally don't.
For example, we had a flight booked to SLC for a ski trip, but they changed the flight time from 6PM to 2PM.
Well, that was going to force me to take a day of vacation. Therefore, I'd rather take the 11am flight, but that costs $200/pp. And I had booked 4 flights ($800).
So, I call up the airline and am super friendly and nice while I explain that their change in flight time has inconvenienced me and I'd like an alternate flight.
The guy leaves and comes back on the line and asks what reason I have for wanting to change to the 11am flight.
Here's the cool part....
I said, "Ok. Because you are not telling me 'No', I assume that there is an answer that would allow me to rebook without the fees. Now, I don't know what you want to hear... but let's just pretend that I gave you the right answer."
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