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Please Help!! I Made a HUGE mistake.... UPDATE in first post!
I went to the Allegiant website to see how full our plane was and to check on our ressies. When I logged in all I could see was the flight info for the return trip. I kept looking and going to different pages and couldn't find anything about our flights down. I went and got my folder with all of my ressies in it and noticed that the dates were WRONG!! I needed a flight date of 3/15 and my ressie has 2/15!! I am just sick to my stomach over this. Please tell me what to do!! I am on hold now with Allegiant. The website states that no-shows will forfeit any and all funds. I don't know why I didn't look at it before today. Just anxious I guess to FINALLY get to purchase them that I didn't look that well. All I saw was the 15th. How often does the same date fall on the same day? Sun 2/15 and Sun 3/15? I am just so upset. Please tell me that there may be hope!!
UPDATE!! I just wanted eveyone to know that I got a credit from Allegiant today!! It was a credit for future travel. It was my cost of tickets minus the taxes. Not all of my money, but most of it. I am just tickled pink that they offered me that!! I have one year to use it. Just had to share my great news with all of my good friends!!
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Yikes! I'm sorry to hear that! Hopefully they'll be understanding and fix it for you. I would imagine they'll probably charge you a change fee but at least that would be less than paying the full fare again.
I hope they can fix this for you! I'm guessing they will probably charge you $75-100 (whatever their change fee is) per ticket to change it though.
Once I booked 2 tickets on USAir, one for me and one for my mom. I accidentally put my last name as the same as hers! I called immediately and they switched it with no fees. I hope the same happens for you!!
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Wow...that is a tough one. The big problem I see is that this is a ticket already passed and the flight date has come and gone. I can see that they may require a new set of tickets to be purchased since you are calling after the scheduled flight date etc. Hope the best for you.
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I called Allegiant twice. The first time I spoke with someone, she was very nasty and not at all helpful and would not give me any info except that I am out of luck. I called back and got a very nice representative. She was very helpful. She tried (with permission of her supervisor) to overide the ressie to change it to the date I need, but to no avail. She told me that it was very evident that it was an honest mistake and should be corrected. She gave me the number to the customer relations office and told me to write a letter to explain what had happened and that they should (no guarrentees) change the date for me. I hope so, I am in such turmoil over this. I take full responsibility for this error, but I hope that they can fix it.
Thanks by the way, for all of the kind words. Also, I was never aware (off in my own little world) that Feb & March had the exact same day/date layout every year except leap year.
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add me to those who hope it can be fixed....wow, what will you do if you can't get down here? not a great thing to think about...can they find another airline for you then in that case? that this gets fixed in your favor!