I think AirBNB should do all the leg work on cancellation just like a real hotel or airline would do. They should present me options with no additional cost showing. Just let me pick. The fact that you have to shoulder the stress to find a place absolutely sucks. Imagine if an airline overbooked/cancelled on you and just said fuck off, find a new flight, here's your credit.
> Imagine if an airline overbooked/cancelled on you and just said fuck off, find a new flight, here's your credit.
This happened to me around 2014, mere hours before my flight. I got a call with an automated voice recording that just said "This is United. Your flight has been canceled. Goodbye." and ended. I'm not even joking: that was the message. Your flight has been canceled; goodbye. It was unbelievable. And this was United, not some shady budget carrier. This was a return flight home, having checked out of the hotel, with my bags in the rental car.
The comparison with airlines is timely: "The Competition and Markets Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority have published an open letter to airlines, warning them about their obligations under consumer protection law." https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2022/07/22...
Never heard of Wizzair, but my experience in the US is that they book you on a new flight. If none of their options suffice, (I believe) they'll help you book on an alternative airline like when a computer outage happens and takes down their entire network. This seems to be the case even for our budget airlines like spirit.
WizzAir[0] is the cheap Hungarian carrier and offers tons of flights out of Budapest all over Europe.
Since the flag carrier, Malév[1], went bust -- in no small part due to the machinations of Wizz -- it's also the only airline with a direct route to many important destinations, such as Berlin.
So for the purposes of "cheap carrier screws you over" you could substitute EasyJet or RyanAir or whatever and have the same story, but with Wizzair you also have a lot of people flying it for business purposes because it's the only way to get to Berlin in under three hours.
And I've heard from a lot of friends who had their Wizz tickets unceremoniously cancelled this summer, so not surprise to see someone mention it here.
This is what happens everywhere with any real airline. Wizzair and other low cost airlines are of couse bound by the same consumer protection laws, but they prey on their uneducated clientele who doesn't know their own rights so they don't know they can complain.
Of course even if you know, and you complain, they will make your life miserable.
With Things like these, plus all the dark patterns and scams regarding luggage, check-in, etc, I don't know why anyone would ever fly low cost.
>Imagine if an airline overbooked/cancelled on you and just said fuck off, find a new flight, here's your credit.
Unfortunately this has happened to me on more than one occasion on major US carriers. On one occasion I had already taken the first flight, and while away on vacation they cancelled my return flight without explanation, only to offer me a flight that was taking off 3-days later.
