Bonaire Trip Disaster!

[Jasonmh]

I too have received the royal "service" from AA several times, sounds very much like your experience. They are the absolute worst airline I have ever flown for service and baggage isssues. I will pay double to fly on another airline just to avoid AA.

 

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[Damselfish]

you know, this thread should be retitled actually, since it's really about AA to Bonaire, not a disaster on Bonaire itself.

 

[TheRedHead]

I too have received the royal "service" from AA several times, sounds very much like your experience. They are the absolute worst airline I have ever flown for service and baggage isssues. I will pay double to fly on another airline just to avoid AA.

Same here. It's asinine they send me to DFW to fly to Miami to fly to San Juan. When we got to San Juan, they started bumping people off the flight to Bonaire. Fourteen hours of travel time to get to San Juan and I think I would have murdered the ticket agent if they had bumped me. Next time, it's going to be Houston to Bonaire on Continental. You couldn't pay me to fly AA again. I'll pay more to fly any other airline than AA.

 

[cerich]

AA stranded me in St Martin for a week a couple years ago. i was doing a 7 island 12 day rep trip and because of a blizzard in the northeast (?!?!?!)they had to bump me....

 

[TheRedHead]

That doesn't sound so bad, creich. But I have been stranded in Dallas twice! When I went to Bonaire, AA was the only way. But never again.

 

[Damselfish]

We got stranded in Miami on the way home last time from Curacao. Kept us in the plane on the tarmac for 4 hours and wound up spending the night at the airport hotel. Once we got off the plane we asked about 5 AA employees the same questions as it wasn't clear if our flight was still there, if flights were still leaving, or what was going on. Didn't get the same answer twice. (Kept asking because none of the answers were actually useful.)

 

[sasscuba]

Trust me there are just the same amount of gripes with every airline. You can always find someone who has a bad experience with just about all of them.

P.S. I work on the planes for AA so don't slam me for gate agent issues...

 

[firemedic1015]

I flew from IAD to MIA on AA for new years. My bags didnt show in MIA. Upon return it took them 21 days to get my bags back to me. Same story, open them up and they have obviously been messed with. Only two items missing. After 4 months AA finally paid for missing items but no daily allowance for time in FL. I will not fly AA ever again.

 

[cerich]

That doesn't sound so bad, creich. But I have been stranded in Dallas twice! When I went to Bonaire, AA was the only way. But never again.

Expensive however and many missed appointments. Plus you have any idea how bad the odds are in the casino's there?