#TravelTips #FlightDelay #EmailCheck
Hey there fellow travelers! 🌍 Today, I wanted to share a little tip that I learned the hard way recently and I hope it can help you avoid the same situation. ✈️
So, picture this: You’re at the airport, waiting for your flight, maybe scrolling through social media or grabbing a snack, when suddenly you receive an email notification. It might be from the airline, a travel app, or some other source. Do you usually take a moment to check it, or do you brush it off thinking it can wait until later? 📧
Let me tell you a personal story that will hopefully shed some light on the importance of periodically checking your emails while waiting for a flight. Just yesterday, I was in Germany, eagerly awaiting my flight back home. The plan was to fly to Brussels and then catch a connection to my final destination. However, about an hour before our departure time, I received an email from the airline, informing me that our original Brussels flight was going to be delayed. Not only that, they had rebooked us on a different route, through Frankfurt, in order to avoid missing our connecting flight home. 🛫
Here’s where my mistake came in – I hadn’t been checking my emails, and the original flight wasn’t showing as delayed on the airport’s flight board yet. Consequently, when we arrived at the gate for the Brussels flight, we were informed that the flight to Frankfurt had already departed, and we should have been on it. 🙈
Needless to say, I was quite panicked; I had never missed a flight before. Thankfully, the airline staff was incredibly helpful and managed to find us another route home, rebooking us onto a different flight for free. It all worked out in the end, but it definitely taught me a valuable lesson. From now on, I will always make a point to check my emails when I’m at the airport, and I highly recommend that you do the same. It could potentially save you a lot of stress and hassle! ✉️
This experience has made me realize just how crucial it is to stay on top of your emails, especially when traveling. Flight delays, gate changes, boarding notifications – all of these important updates can often be communicated through email, and if you’re not keeping an eye on them, you might miss vital information that could impact your journey. It’s something that’s so simple, yet easily overlooked in the chaos of travel. 🛄
So, my dear fellow travelers, let this be a gentle reminder to periodically check your emails while you’re at the airport. It only takes a moment, and it could potentially save you from a lot of stress and unexpected situations. Trust me, you don’t want to find yourself in a last-minute scramble like I did. 😅
In conclusion, the next time you’re at the airport waiting for a flight, take a few minutes to glance through your inbox. You never know what important updates or notifications might be waiting for you. This small habit could make a big difference in ensuring a smoother and more enjoyable travel experience. Safe travels to you all! ✈️🌟
Better yet, get the airlines app and get notifications.
> about an hour before our flight departure I got an email from the airline saying they had rebooked us on a flight to Frankfurt
Wait… they don’t CALL to check you get the info?
> I’ve never missed a flight so was panicking.
We got the reverse : 30mins before checkin opened they sent everybody an email to remind them to register their baggage one day in advance.
Turned out they meant to sent the notification for people with checked baggage only, but didn’t say so anywhere in the mail
That’s just shitty airline behavior. Changes like that, especially on such short notice, always require the passenger to be informed by phone.
Just get the app for whatever airline you’re flying
Is this a life PRO tip? This is part of the basics of traveling. I feel like you’ve never paid attention to anyone talking about flying. You didn’t read any of the information presented to you while booking. Like, yeah no shit your flight can change and you need to check for notifications. If the flight change was something that happened within an hour of the original departure, they probably made announcements at the airport over the speaker. When you hadn’t shown up to board, they almost definitely announced your name MULTIPLE times over the PA throughout the airport. You just sound like a very unobservant person.
This is more of a lesson learned than a life pro tip. That’s not really what this sub should be. This is a not a place for basic life tips or like “how to be an adult”.
Additionally, most airlines let you choose the form of notification – email, text, call. You should also download the app for the airline you’re using.
What if the wifi or cell service at the airport is nonexistent or paywalled (meaning I’m not fucking paying for this shit)?
Brussels and Frankfurt are in two different places.
Which airline? I’d like to avoid it.
Nope. Download the app for your airline or load the ticket to your digital wallet and get notified in real time of changes…it’s 2023
Yup. This happened to us in 2013 with United. We were at our gate about two hours early. I’m on my phone and Google is grabbing my emails. Suddenly an alert pops up and our flight is delayed. I look behind us at the gate and sure enough. We had a connecting flight to Toronto that we’d 100% miss.
They were great though. For some reason every flight was booked, November 15-19. They called around to every other airline trying and pleading. Managed to score us a flight to Chicago but we had to go from Newark to La Guardia first. They paid our cab fare and gave us food vouchers for the trouble.
This isnt a life protip, its a story from your life.
A lot of airlines have apps that will send you push notifications for this sort of thing too (in addition to things like mobile boarding pass and seat changes etc)
Email is so 90s they might as well have sent smoke signals
So were you one of those guys thst get called via speaker like 20 times?
Maybe not. It might be bad news and it it better to be with someone you care for to comfort you rather than be stuck on a pkane. I emailed a stranger who I match on ancestry DNA. I had worked out who his unknown father was but wanted him to be with someone before he found out. He insisted and he found out on board the flight.
Similar situation, I missed my connecting flight to Singapore recently. I hadn’t noticed by email that my airline had re-booked another connecting flight until after I’d bought a non-refundable ticket
yup, its good to check regularly leading up to the flight. a lot of times these emails seem to be like, auto generated by some computer system and often those get delayed for some reason or another. its happened to me, where an email that was theoretically supposed to arrive 12+ hours before the flight didnt show up until a couple hours before
I’d suggest going further and getting the app for the airline so that you have the latest info immediately
So you’re saying I shouldn’t have 13k, recently down from 30k, unread emails?
Choose text instead of email for such notifications.