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Our Delta flight was cancelled twice going back from Tokyo to Seattle, each time they put us up in the Hanade airport hotel to try the flight again 24 hours later. Well, my wife promised to never fly Delta again, although we have comps for half the price of our flight to use before August. Sigh.

What are we going to do? We just have a choice between bad and worse.

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Airline margins are like 3%, so explain to your wife it will hurt Delta more to use the halfprice tickets first and then never fly Delta again after that.

> so explain to your wife it will hurt Delta more to use the halfprice tickets first and then never fly Delta again after that.

She is disappointed in wasting 2+ days trying to get home, at the beginning of school, and said we should gladly pay 2X the price for our tickets for something more reliable (like going with JAL or ANA instead). Considering what we both earn per day, that was a lot of money lost, more than the tickets were worth (the half price tickets being only a minor consolation).

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