So my father-in-law was flying to Boston yesterday. During his lay-over in Minneapolis his flight to Boston was cancelled due to "snow". Airline would not pay for hotel or to transfer to another airline.
When he finally flew to Boston the next day he talked to a gate attendant and was told that no flights had been cancelled the day before and there was no snow.
We are assuming that the airline cancelled his flight as it wasn't full enough and they wanted a fuller flight.
But now my father in-law is out a nights hotel, food, transportation, plus missing appointments he had.
Can any legal pede's out there tell me if this was legal? Seems really sketchy by the airline to cancel a flight and not offer any reimbursement.
Hubby is a commercial pilot and has been for about 20 years. Just because there is no snow in Boston doesn't mean anything. There was a huge storm on the east coast and the way that the weather was fluctuating could have been very dangerous for a plane to fly through or around because of air flow around the storm.