One of the worst experiences in a long time. I generally only fly using Delta because I have always…read morehad great customer support and have generally, 95% of the time, had a great experience.
This time to save 1 hour of time we decided to take American.
After the shitshow from American Airlines, we missed our flight. Americant Airlines is unbelievable. We arrived at the airport, and the baggage tag printer indicated that we could not print our baggage tag, so we were instructed to wait in line. Turns out the line was the wrong line so then we were told to wait in another line. The line was slow as molasses. One lady said she was in line just to get a baggage tag for over 1 hour and 30 min. We waited about the same amount of time, and we missed our flight. In that amount of time, they helped less than 15 people print baggage tags. How can you be so slow?
Well, the lady was like, " Next time come 3 to 4 hours before. Also, TSA times were like 10 minutes, and they were cranking out hundreds of people. They then offered us a new flight that arrived in Savannah at 10pm I was like he'll no. I was like, I'm not going to lose a day because you all told us to stand in a lane, then move to another lane, and miss our flight. The old lady was like, " No refunds and so we took it and sat down, and I made some calls.
So I made some calls and managed to get my trip credits that are useless because I refuse to fly with this airline again and booked a Delta flight and a Delta flight, and we ended up 1 hour later than our normal time. The sad part is we had to check luggage and had 1 hour 30 minutes till boarding, and the Delta line was from Delta all the way to American Airlines. Like 500 people vs Americans 30 people that took 1h 30m. We were at the end of the Delta line and in 37 minutes we were able to go through and drop off our bags and go through TSA. Now tell me where the problem is.
Also, to point out, American had one person doing bag printing for regular people in America, 1 person doing it for first class, and occasionally helping, and a bunch of other people sitting around doing nothing, waiting for the 1 person to print off luggage tags because their systems kept failing or were not working. You would think any terminal should be able to print but not just one.
Just as everyone is saying online, the customer service is a joke. We were not the only people who missed our flights because of the line confusion and people sitting around, and their response was basically spend your whole day at the airport because it's the holidays. While other airlines like Delta seem to be cranking out hundreds in less than an hour. The least American can do is give me my money back not no flight credit to leave me stranded again or to get mistreated or get me late to my location.
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