Flight changes during trip

Marty_J

I'm in the US at the minute, having arrived on the 21st October, and planning to leave on the 16th January. My return trip is XNA (Northwest Arkansas) > Memphis > Dublin. My flight from XNA was supposed to be leaving at 12:30pm, but today I received an email from NWA stating that they have changed my flight to one departing at 6:15am, with a subsequent 7 hour layover in Memphis.

I can't make a flight at 6:15am, and I don't particularly relish the idea of waiting an extra 7 hours in Memphis. The change has added 13 hours onto my journey time.

I'm aware that the issue of airlines changing flights comes up quite regularly, but I haven't seen any that have taken place after the trip has started. I called NWA, who said they only have two flights that day from XNA, and the later one is too late for my connection; the flight I was supposed to be on is now leaving later. My flights to Newark and Dublin are with Continental. What are my options here? Should I be contacting Opodo as the people who I booked my flights with, or the airlines? Is it reasonable for me to ask them to change my whole return itinerary to accomodate a later flight? Or should I just find a good book and put up with it?

basill

I would try Opodo first.

I found them very helpful when flight changes left me with what I thought was an unreasonably short time to make a transfer, they assured me it would be OK but were able to change my booking to a later flight.

I initially contacted them by email, but the exchange of mails was quite slow. When I ended up phoning it got cleared up pretty fast.


B

PBA

Uh, it is quite common for a schedule change to happen after the trip starts, expecially if it's a very long trip like yours. Phone the travel agent you booked with, and they'll sort out a flight home for you.