The Little Mountain, Ltd group was supposed to leave Cleveland on Northwest Airlines on Saturday, April 7th to fly from Cleveland to Minneapolis to Eagle for a trip to Snowmass. Late Friday afternoon, their flight out of Cleveland on Saturday morning was "canceled due to crew work limitations." After several hours on the phone with the NW, the group was accommodated on several other flights on AA and UA and everyone made it to Snowmass by Saturday afternoon.
These folks fared better than another NW flight that was supposed to depart Las Vegas on Saturday morning, April 7th. According to national news reports, while the passengers were boarding the plane, the pilot having a conversation on his cellphone and was yelling obscenities and allegedly cursed at a passenger. The flight was canceled and people were re booked on other flights.
The moral of these two stories: no matter how much advance planning you do for a trip, be it for yourself or for a group, some luck is required for it to all run smoothly.
Air is starting to be loaded into the resort airports for next winter. Already, group space on many Saturday flights is gone. If you aren't randomly the first person to get through to the airlines' group desks the minute that the inventory becomes available, then everyone else is boxed out for the year. However, I had friends who just booked 5 frequent flyer tickets from Denver to Hawaii on April 9th for travel on April 13th, which looks to be a high travel spring break period. Sometimes there is what appears to be no rhyme or reason to booking airline seats.
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