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re: Winter Weather Flight Waivers Valentine's Weekend- Houston, Dallas, Mid-Atlantic

Posted on 2/15/21 at 11:26 am to
Posted by CuseTiger
Member since Jul 2013
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 11:26 am to
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May just rent a car when we land in Dallas and take it slow on home today. I dont see road closures on the map from Dallas to alexandria right now.

After you just drove in CO, I think you'll be fine driving in TX/LA . Take it easy on bridges, but I think you are correct this is your best option
Posted by fatboydave
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 11:38 am to
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For the flexibility end, I was more referring to getting out of Louisiana. Like can you leave tomorrow afternoon/evening out of Nola instead of Wednesday morning? There's seats on Nola-Phoenix tomorrow at 3:38pm and then you could take PHX-Maui wednesday at 11:10am. Would that work?

Checking with my wife and babysitter but driving to MSY and overnight in PHX might get the thumbs down from my wife
Posted by CuseTiger
Member since Jul 2013
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 11:48 am to
I'd suggest calling AA and seeing what options are available when you talk with them. Problem with hawaii flights is they usually leave early in the day (8am out of Los Angeles, 11am out of Phoenix, etc.). That means you need to get to one of those airports before the flight and in this case it's not going to be easy with no MSY-PHX or MSY-LAX flights in the evenings.
Posted by fatboydave
Fat boy land
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 11:52 am to
Thanks for the help. On hold right now.
Posted by CuseTiger
Member since Jul 2013
9070 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 12:02 pm to
Maybe you can look at getting to Honolulu instead of the direct to Maui then have AA put you on an interline with Hawaiian. They have a lot of flexibility since your flight was cancelled

My advice: Don't try to fly out of BTR, LFT, LCH, or AEX. All those flights will cancel. Best option is New Orleans if you can make it down there. Ask if they can switch your return flight to there as well if they need to change your outbound
This post was edited on 2/15/21 at 12:27 pm
Posted by fatboydave
Fat boy land
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 12:48 pm to
Whats the odds wednesday flights from SHV get cancelled?
Posted by CuseTiger
Member since Jul 2013
9070 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 1:00 pm to
Quite high, they're all on american eagle. First flights to cancel
Posted by fatboydave
Fat boy land
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17979 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 1:44 pm to
We are meeting others that are flying out of SHV on Wednesday morning. They are telling me AA hasn't cancelled their flights yet. I'm tempted to try to drive up there tomorrow afternoon to take the Wednesday flight to DFW.
Posted by CuseTiger
Member since Jul 2013
9070 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 1:48 pm to
You can do that and then when they cancel SHV-DFW y'all can just drive to dallas together. Sorry not trying to be negative here, but realistic. Below is the forecast for 10am central time on wednesday



I'd suggest staying as far away from SHV and DFW as possible wednesday
This post was edited on 2/15/21 at 2:01 pm
Posted by CuseTiger
Member since Jul 2013
9070 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 1:58 pm to
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jkylejohnson

That baton rouge flight ended up cancelling, hope you went straight for a rental car
Posted by fatboydave
Fat boy land
Member since Aug 2004
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 2:05 pm to
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Sorry not trying to be negative here, but realistic. Below is the forecast for 10am central time on wednesday


Posted by CuseTiger
Member since Jul 2013
9070 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 2:13 pm to
I'd go out of nola tomorrow afternoon if you really want to get to hawaii. Or drive straight to dallas and pray it's not bad there
Posted by fatboydave
Fat boy land
Member since Aug 2004
17979 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 3:13 pm to
May do BTR on Thursday. Can't get a human on the phone
I got an email from AA that they rebooked me on Friday afternoon. Not doing that but can't talk to anyone to get it changed.
This post was edited on 2/15/21 at 3:15 pm
Posted by CuseTiger
Member since Jul 2013
9070 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 3:16 pm to
Wouldn't trust thursday either, there will be remaining delays and everyone from the cancelled flights yesterday, today, and tomorrow (and now even wednesday) will end up on those flights. Friend just got a call back from AA after 2 hr 45 min, put in for the callback and deal with it around dinnertime. Also try contacting AA via their app
Posted by fatboydave
Fat boy land
Member since Aug 2004
17979 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 3:21 pm to
yeah. over 2 hrs to wait for a call and can't get a response on the app. It's a sign to give up and try another time
Posted by Drunken Crawfish
Member since Apr 2017
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Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:48 am to
Flight from Eagle to DFW for tomorrow morning is cancelled. This is going to be fun
Posted by CuseTiger
Member since Jul 2013
9070 posts
Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:50 am to
If you can't get rebooked out of Vail, next closest airports are ASE or DEN. I'd probably just stay in vail an extra day if you can find a room, it won't be worth your hassle trying to get back tomorrow unless you have to be at work on thursday
Posted by Drunken Crawfish
Member since Apr 2017
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Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:56 am to
That’s the plan we have another group up here who has room at their place. It’ll be interesting to see if we can still get to AEX on Thursday.
Posted by CuseTiger
Member since Jul 2013
9070 posts
Posted on 2/16/21 at 9:22 am to
Have they rebooked you yet? I'd make sure to get confirmed for ege-dfw-aex on thursday now while there are seats
Posted by jkylejohnson
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2016
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Posted on 2/16/21 at 2:21 pm to
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cuse


We did head straight for rental car. Sadly they had no one way rental options to alexandria so I had to use dollar and one way to lafayette. Took me 11 hours to drive from Dallas to alexandria last night. Usually a 5 hr drive but could barely exceed 30 mph without fishtailing. The roads were HORRIBLE. Dollar rental car sucks by the way.
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