04-10-2022
01:50 PM
Airfare Experts is the third party app selling SouthWest tickets.
Yes, I filed a baggage claim after being on hold for two hours. Now we have to drive an additional two hours to go and pick up our luggage at another airport.
I would call 7 hours a long time to locate bags that never left an airport.
We didn’t have a choice to wait because we would have missed our cruise.
I have no idea what travel insurance would have done in this situation regarding my luggage. Thank you,
Bethany
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04-10-2022
11:03 AM
Hello,
We were supposed to depart on 4/2/22 from MDW to LGA at 1:35pm. Our flight was continually delayed by 15 minutes until 7pm when it was finally canceled. Before the actual cancellation, SouthWest announced they had secured another airplane from Baltimore and we would be taking off at 6:30 (which gave us false hope). After our flight was canceled at 7pm, we went to get our checked luggage. The lady at customer service desk told us to go to carousel 2 and wait for one hour. After our luggage did not come out, we went to the baggage customer service. They told us it would be 7 hours for us to get our bags. We did not have 7 hours to wait because our cruise was leaving from New Jersey at 12:00 pm on 4/3/22.
It was chaos. They lady in front of us had a 3 month old and her infants formula was in her luggage and they only had 1 bottle left. Another person was stranded because they did not have their children's car seats.
They also did not have another flight we could get on until Monday, 4/4/22
So, we drove all night (12 hours) and spent $750 at a target a dicks sporting goods store to buying clothes, toiletries for our cruise for myself, husband, and two teenagers. We had to buy everything from underwear to sunscreen. We still didn’t have enough and had to wear dirty clothes. We also couldn’t attend the two formal
nights because Target and Dicks do not sell formal attire. Also, no other stores were open at 9AM on a Sunday. I also booked a hotel for $400 in New York City which we missed staying at. I also paid $120 in advance for airport parking in Chicago.
Now-I have been trying to contact Southwest for 3 hours with no luck.
Will we be reimbursed for the money we spent on clothes? What about the hotel room? They already said they could not refund us for the tickets because they were booked through a third party. The third party is telling me Southwest only allows credits towards future trips.
Could someone from SouthWest reach out to me to make this right? I mean, it was a horrible experience.
Thank you,
Bethany Broom-Dombrowski
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