Quantum Windbag
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It still happens; and I know because we had several employees stranded in Europe.
The airlines get around it by canceling and renumbering the flight. They can then sell tickets as a new flight.
That is not what you accused them of doing. Do you think that, when something like that happens, that they just hit a pause button and and wait until they can fly again? They have to honor all the tickets they sell, and when they start flying again they have to fly the non cancelled flights first, and all the passengers on those flights, then they can move on to cancelled flights and those passengers, fitting them in where possible. Sometimes that means they have to choose between a longer wait or a more expensive flight.
Life sucks, get over it.
What a jerk. I'm sure you'd like it if you had a $1,000 ticket which the airline refused to honor while selling your seat to somebody else for $8,000, and then being stuck with a few nights of hotel bills.
But I am fairly certain that your life does indeed suck.
I am not worried about it, I don't fly anywhere.