It has been pretty painful trying to get home to YYC from Houston. We had booked through trip.com and any requests for changes have to go through them (not that I could get a westjet agent on the phone, I've tried). I've gone down to the Airport here in Houston as well to see if the check-in agents could assist and no dice.
Trip.com has to put in the request through West Jet, and the last 3 requests they have put in (including one request via United) have all been rejected by Westjet as the flights were full. The issue here is it takes 12-16 hours to find out, which puts us out another day each time. Now we're hoping to get on a flight for July 4th but it wouldn't surprise me to be booted off that one as well.
Any creative ideas for how to get back? I've thought about booking our own flights and seeking compensation later; however, the flights are brutally expensive and we'd potentially be out of pocket thousands of dollars if we were unsuccessful in getting compensated. The other thought i had was booking a much cheaper flight to Kalispell for <$1000 and having a family member drive down to Montana and pick us up.
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