RBC Avion Dealing with cancelled flight
So this is mostly a rant about airline customer service, with a small hope someone may have been through something similar and found a solution.
I'm booked for a flight from Calgary to Lihue November 5th to 12th next month. Flight booked through Avion Rewards back in April. Since then flight from SFO to Lihue has been delayed 2 hours, flight home from LAX to Calgary has been delayed 10 hours, and now the flight from Calgary to SFO has been straight up cancelled.
I called 10 days ago to get flight changed so I could still make it to Lihue, and they say there are no United flights available that I can switch to. Well, the flight that was cancelled was Air Canada, and I'm literally looking at multiple flights on the air canada website that get me to SFO in time for the flight from SFO to Lihue, just they go through Vancouver. I ask can you just book me on that? They say they need to escalate to a different level and will get back to me in 3 business days.
Well they never got back to me and I finally called them back today, only to have call cancelled on me twice in middle of talking with them, no call back, go through the whole wait etc for the last 5 hours. Finally they say that since the tickets available on the Air Canada flights have a different code (I was apparently booked on code G and they can only rebook me on code G?) I would have to pay the difference. Okay, whatever, I've been dicked around for 10 days now, I'll pay the extra $100 bucks or whatever. Then she tells me it'll cost $1400 dollars. WTF. The entire round trip when I paid in April only cost $1700 total.
I get a little pissed now, asking for a refund on the flight that was cancelled. I'll book my own way to SFO as I can see on Air Canada website right now I can book that same flight they want to charge $1400 for, for only $900. They say they can't refund on a partial part of an itinerary, I would have to cancel my entire trip and get full refund, but meanwhile any flights now still available are 3x the price that I paid in April. She says there is nothing else she can do and hangs up.
I've now paid the new air canada tickets just on the AC website but I am absolutely furious at this whole situation and wonder, does anyone know how I can escalate this to get some refund for the flight that was cancelled?
Thanks for reading my rant.
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