Never Mention Frontier Airlines AGAIN!
I booked a trip to Cancun in September on Expedia. I merely booked this year's trip for the cheapest price, not thinking about who had the flight for the trip. I guess it was my unlucky day. I found out I was flying with Frontier Airline. I had never flown with them. I tried calling 2 days before to book my seats & was told that it was a Charter flight & you could not book your seats. It was hard for me to underst& the Customer Service person, both times, because they barely spoke English. I didn't realize that it was a Charter flight until I called. I found out it was a FunJet.
The night before our flight, I called Frontier's Customer Service & told the girl that I needed to know if I was flying out of O'Hare, which terminal I go to Int'l or Domestic. She said she would check, again didn't speak very good English. She came back on & said, yes it was Int'l. I don't know why, but I doubted her & asked her to double check. She put me on hold for a minute & came back & said, "yes definitely Int'l." I said ok & as I hung up she quickly said, "Be there an hour early". I still questioned the terminal, but knew I wasn't going to get anything else from her. I asked my son to call & he did. He spoke to a guy. He asked, "if I'm going out of O'Hare to Cancun on Frontier, what terminal do we fly out of. He told my son, Int'l.
The Limo picked us up & we headed to Terminal 5(Int'l Terminal). We got to the Int'l Terminal at 4:45 am. My son went inside & said it was like a ghost town. He looked around for someone to ask & couldn't find anyone. He checked the boards & the only flights going out of there were overseas Int'l. He said there weren't any flights showing going to Mexico. I asked the Limo driver if he could take us to Domestic. He did & I walked into the airport & was able to go right to the counter. I got up there at 5:04 am. I was told, "You are late". I said, yes because Frontier's Customer Service told us to go the Int'l terminal. They said it doesn't matter. Funjet closed the flight at exactly 5am & they could not open it. I said "I'm only a couple of minutes late" They called the FunJet representative over & she told me the same thing. I again said, it's because of the Frontier customer service rep. I explained the entire situation of our calls. They didn't care. I asked to speak to a manager & a lady came down. About 5 minutes after another couple came in, the same situation & they were also told, there was nothing they could do. The manager came over & I explained it to her. She stated she looked in the notes & didn't have a record of me calling the night before. I said, my phone record will definitely show that I did. I also told them, I would BET if they called their customer service rep & asked what terminal to go out of, they would more than likely tell them Int'l, as well.
They told me I could leave on Saturday. I said, no way. They told me the only way I could get to Cancun was to book with another airline. They also said Frontier couldn't help me, I had to go through Expedia. They handed me the Frontier airline phone # & my son saw it. He took the slip with the 801 phone # on it; he held out his phone & said...do you mean this phone number on my phone from when I called last night to find out which terminal. Here is your proof.
I also stated that if it was a hard fast rule that you must be there an hour before or you don't get on the plane, they should say that. They said it was in my paperwork. I stated it was not & offered for them to go through it to see where it stated that.
They didn't care. I did call the Frontier number as I was standing at the desk & I asked to speak to a manager . When I started explaining & stating that I was told by their Customer Service rep the night before to go to Int'l Terminal, she hung up on me. I was almost in tears but also mad as ***. We called several places to get another flight & to get out the same day, with a non-stop flight, it cost me over $1600 for 2 round trips tickets. I don't ever want to hear the word Frontier, again. Also, I called Expedia when I got to Mexico & I was told, this was not an Expedia problem, this was a Frontier problem. I tried several times to call Frontier from Cancun, but I could not get through to the 801 phone number from Mexico. When I got through the message was in Spanish & I could not understand & the phone hung up on me.
I sent a complaint email stated I want to get sp,e money back, but more importantly, I wanted to cancel my flight home since I did not want to fly Frontier EVER. . It was never cancelled! I got an email this morning : This is what it said " they couldn't help me with my flight from Denver (IT WAS CHICAGO) to Cancun, because it was an Apple Vacation (It was a FunJet) & I had to call Apple Vacations to discuss any problems. read more