{"id":20571,"date":"2012-04-14T16:56:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20571"},"modified":"2012-04-14T18:07:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T22:07:44","slug":"bahamasair-ruins-travelers-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/04\/bahamasair-ruins-travelers-vacation","title":{"rendered":"Bahamasair Ruins Traveler&#8217;s Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20576\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20576\" title=\"thumbs-down\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/thumbs-down-250x235.jpg\" alt=\"thumbs down\" width=\"250\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/thumbs-down-250x235.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/thumbs-down-150x141.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/thumbs-down.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thumbs down for Bahamasair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Q: We booked a ticket from Washington, D.C., to the Bahamas recently through Expedia. It was a code-share flight with Bahamasair through US Airways.<\/p>\n<p>At the US Airways check-in counter we, and about 50 other travelers,  were told by US Airways ticket agents that Bahamasair had not  transferred the ticket information to the US Airways system and so none  of us could board.<\/p>\n<p>After four hours of pleading, arguing and begging with US Airways and  Expedia, we gave up and went home. By that time we couldn&#8217;t book any  reasonably priced flights to our destination in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>At a minimum we will lose the rental fee for the place in the Bahamas  and we&#8217;re worried that we&#8217;ll also lose the $1,400 we paid Bahamasair.  Multiple phone calls to Bahamasair have been unsatisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>This was a genuine travel nightmare. Can you help us?<\/p>\n<p>To see <a href=\"http:\/\/search.nwsource.com\/search?searchtype=cq&amp;sort=date&amp;from=ST&amp;byline=Christopher%20Elliott\" target=\"_blank\">travel expert<\/a> Christopher Elliott&#8217;s response, click the link to the original article below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A traveler&#8217;s flight to the Bahamas never happened because of a code-sharing error by Bahamasair. His vacation is ruined and the airline still has his money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42,142,33,73],"class_list":["post-20571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-airlines","tag-incompetence","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}