Two full days lost to fly 1.5 hours, is this normal?
I just flew a direct round trip flight to see family. The priory tickets were first row, aisle seats. Both flights were early to mid morning to accommodate plans after arrival.
On the outbound flight, my flight was cancelled 7 hours before it was to depart. There was no explanation or notice - just my app told me it was cancelled.
An hour plus was spent using the website to rebook, and everything ended in an ‘oops’ message and failed to rebook.
I had a family member try to resolve the booking and they were on hold for 2.75 hours, and kept getting told their hold times were lengthening but never got to a person.
I checked weather and there was no activity in our around the full route.
I drove to the airport and got myself rebooked using the ticketing counter. The best option was a new flight leaving at 5pm and it landed an hour away from my original destination. If I wanted the same airport, earliest would be 4pm the next day, 20 hours after original flight departure time.
On the return flight, my 10am flight was NOT canceled, but the night before I was moved to a 4pm flight and stuffed into a middle seat. This was done by the airline for no apparent reason.
All in all I lost two days to travel mayhem from Allegiant. I’ve never flown budget before but know other people swear by it. Is this just how things roll on the regular for budget lines?