Your crucial mistake here was assuming that your connecting flight was still available to you even though your initial flight was cancelled. That is not how it works. If your first flight is cancelled (or you miss it for whatever reason), any connections you had are cancelled too. You can’t make the second flight if you aren’t on the first, it’s a perfectly logical assumption to make. The airline is not going to be like, “Oh let’s keep their remaining reservation in tact in case they are going to drive to the connecting airport to catch their second flight” ?!? —Jessica
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