If you are flying Delta to Dubai flight #8 is fine, but we have had four air changes from Austin to Atlanta. We were not notified of the last one and when I went in to check we had no seat assignments. A little scary. I got it cleared up but it's still worth a check to make sure that Delta has not made any changes to your itinerary. After all that time on the phone getting this taken care of, Delta's last word was keep checking there could be more changes. Wonderful.

Carolyn

WE checked our Black Sea trip yesterday

Found we are now arriving in JFK two houra AFTER our JFK to Istanbul flight leaves. The Turkish air flight schedule leaves about three hours earlier now.

We now have to leave DFW at 6.30 am and fly to LGA and then change airports.

Always smart to keep checking and checking.

I have found that every time Delta makes a schedule change, even if it is a few minutes or just a flight number, our seat assignments need to be done over. Moreover, it usually requires a call because their system sort of locks up till the record is "cleaned." I don't know if this is an industry-wide event, but a few days before CAMEL, we are flying to Seattle for Gail's son's wedding. I have had to redo our seats at least 6 times in the past few months.

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Eugene

Delta used to require a manual "cleanup" of the reservation. However, they've started doing this automatically. Its still a good idea to check your reservations perhaps weekly especially if you have a "special" seat (exit row) so you can hopefully get it back. I know that many of you are on award tickets for this, if a schedule change leaves you with an uncomfortable connection time, they will reaccomodate you to an earlier flight even if "regular" award inventory isn't available. If the agent refuses to do this for you, just hang up and call back.