How to beat airline flight delays and cancellations

If you’re flying this summer – or any time, really – you don’t have to get stuck standing in line at the airport for rebooking. Consumer Investigator Chris Chmura has pro tips for being smartly proactive and efficiently reactive when your next flight is late or canceled.

Highlights:
- Get ahead: Track your plane, not just your flight
- Get your airline’s app: DIY rebooking is possible
- Get loud: Try social media (not on ‘blast,’ though!)

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[jlunde]

Ever notice how these flight delays ALWAYS occur during the last week of the month? Pilots are hitting their flight hour cap and there’s no one to pick up the slack. These frequent cancellations also seemed to have started right around the mandatory “safe and effective” too

[ADNAL]

You have to be a vigilant and alert traveler...ON YOUR OWN!. You cannot and never should expect the airline to take care of everything. The Contract of Carriage is a two-person agreement. IJS