On his way back to Sweden, the director had an unexpected layover in London after his flight got canceled.
And an ANA Dreamliner flight was canceled in Japan on Wednesday, because of a glitch with its brake system.
Due to an impending snow storm in Denver, my flight was canceled and I was re-booked and re-routed, getting home 12 hours later than I had planned.
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Pincus: I need a great travel service app on my BlackBerry or iPhone that knows if my flight is canceled, etc. and it can recommend some games to play while I wait.
If a flight is canceled for operational reasons (such as a mechanical problem or crew scheduling conflicts) most airline contracts stipulate that you have to be put on the next available flight, even if it's on another airline.
On Thursday, CEO Neeleman addressed the unpleasant conditions faced by passengers on one plane -- a flight for Cancun, Mexico, that spent about eight hours on the tarmac Wednesday before finally allowing passengers to get off after the flight was canceled.
When I got off less than five hours later, the Boston flight had been canceled.
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Any time lost because of a canceled flight is an inconvenience to someone.
If there is a mechanical problem with a plane, or a pilot is sick, then chances are the flight will be canceled.
After encountering hurricanes, flight delays, canceled reservations, wildfires and after crisscrossing the country dozens of times, he's learned to take nothing for granted.
When I realized on Thursday that my 8:00 a.m. flight on Friday had been canceled and I was re-booked on a 5:15 p.m. flight, I finished the meeting I was in, ran upstairs to my hotel room, hopped online and called United.
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Twenty-four hours ahead of the storm, under a perfectly clear sky, my airline canceled my flight from DC to NYC.
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If you hold an e-ticket and your flight is delayed or canceled, you must redeem the e-ticket for a paper ticket to switch to another carrier.
As it was, when an airline canceled a flight from Point A to Point B, it had no plane available at Point B to fly the scheduled continuation to Point C.
Then, advises Trippler, start asking the airline representative at the gate if the flight is going to be canceled.
On Wednesday All Nippon Airways canceled a domestic flight in Japan because of an error message on the braking system of a 787.
Among the bill's provisions: Carriers would have to tell passengers when a flight is oversold and the real reason a flight has been delayed, diverted or canceled.
Fearing that my Wednesday, February 2nd flight out of St Louis would be canceled due to inclement weather and wanting to arrive in North Texas in a timely fashion, I had a colleague suggest that I take the train.
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That same day, my boss was scheduled to fly to Miami, but his flight, as well as every other one, was canceled due to a hurricane.
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President Obama declined to keep the shuttles going, canceled the planned replacement platform for manned space flight and thereby condemned this country for the foreseeable future to reliance on Russian and perhaps, in due course, Chinese rockets to deliver our astronauts to the space station.
The Navy also canceled appearances by the Blue Angels, the famed flight-demonstration squadron.
James Rubino was originally booked on a flight to Miami on Friday evening to see family, but the airline canceled the trip.
Already the military services have curtailed flight and combat training for many units, grounded some Air Force squadrons and delayed or canceled some ship deployments.
"If the State Department had canceled AbdulMutallab's visa, he would never have been permitted to board his flight in Amsterdam, " Collins said in a statement.
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