re: Hurricane Ida- MSY Waivers to Sept 12 for Delta/AA/UA, October 2 for Southwest

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I have a flight from MSY to Austin on Thursday. That should be ok by then, right?

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No clue yet. MSY is in a wait and see approach currently. Maybe they'll get power in a day or two, maybe theyll get water in a week. I'd suggest driving or if on AA, rebook to BTR

Hey man, I'd ask you earlier, but what's your current opinion on Saturday flights? It's outside of the waiver window, so kind of in a holding pattern. My luck I will book elsewhere, and then it will be a go and lose the refund.

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what's your current opinion on Saturday flights? It's outside of the waiver window, so kind of in a holding pattern. My luck I will book elsewhere, and then it will be a go and lose the refund.

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Yeah this coming weekend has been up in the air since the event started and you're correct, still in a holding pattern. You're the plane circling in the air waiting for the thunderstorms to land, but you've got a full tank of gas .

Questions (and not meant to be personal)- 1.How often do you travel and 2.Do you have extra cash to spare? What I'd probably do is to book a ticket on another airline besides united out of BTR (AA or Delta) for BTR-XXX-EUG for saturday. This way, in case MSY still is having issues you have another flight booked to get out there. If MSY reopens, you can cancel the BTR ticket and get an e-credit back in the amount you spent for future travel (hence my question of how often do you travel). Looks like BTR-EUG is $250 for a one-way.

Note: Do not book this extra ticket on United. They will see a double reservation and cancel both of your reservations.

When are you supposed to come back?

Updating the crowd here. Just went through and saw Southwest updated their waiver through September 5th so get to rebooking later this weekend if you can. Still no update on the actual conditions of MSY, BTR scheduled to get its first inbound flights tomorrow morning so fingers crossed it can get back to some sense of normalcy.

If MSY ends up being closed for a decent amount of time, I wonder if the airlines upgauge the aircraft types into BTR short term to make up for loss of MSY capacity. Will keep an eye on this.

Awesome advice and thanks. I fly about 6-8x per year, so that voucher isn't a big difference. Thanks for mentioning the separate airlines. I wouldn't have thought of that.

I am coming back the 11th, so hopefully it will all be sorted out by then.

Anybody have any experience with trying to return a rental car in these situations?

My car is at the MSY airport parking garage and we had to fly into IAH yesterday and rent a car one way. I'm getting no help from Thrifty other than the "if you return the car within 24 hours of it opening you'll be fine." No one can give me an answer of when it'll open etc...which I get but it's frustrating feeling like I'm in charge of calling every few hours.

Southwest made me pay a change fee on switching to Houston, frick them.

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MSY as of right now says my flight is good to go on Thursday

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I'll believe it when I see it. Baton rouge at least had a flight land this morning already so it appears the airport is reopened for commercial flights

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Call and request a callback. You can also try and chat with them. See if she can do it online as well

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Thanks, I never got an option for a callback and doing it online still shows a price difference. Is delta not allowing changing the origin airports under their waiver? I know AA allowed within 300 miles.