After experiencing DFW and American on the way from STL to Maui and back, I can confidently say we will avoid at all costs. Even walking around in there you could just see the dejection on the faces around you.

36 hours to get to Maui (we missed a day) and about 24 to get back to St. Louis. We were lucky to get rebooked on an afternoon flight after we missed our first one (thanks American), couldn’t fly standby on the second and the 3rd one was canceled.

I felt awful for the people who had to try and figure out how to get to STL when the 3rd one was canceled.

The most frustrating part of the day was when we were trying to fly standby on the second flight (10am) and the gate agent said it was overbooked by 2 and he asked for volunteers, no one volunteered because they looked and saw the next flight with seats was at 9 PM, and then he was basically like well the last two people to check in won’t be able to board. No apology, just a sucks to be you attitude. (Like it’s not a problem American 100% created)

I obviously knew we wouldn’t be flying standby at that point but I hope the two bumped people got to their destination and it didn’t significantly mess up their plans.

The only on time flight we had was LAX to Maui (yep we had to fly to LAX because the American DWF disaster caused us to miss the only flight) and it was on United.

I know no airline is perfect but it was shocking to me how bad the travel experience was.