My 23 y.o. daughter, Susie (name changed for privacy) & her 17 y.o. cousin, Martha (name changed for privacy) purposely missed a leg of their flight from Paris to London on Saturday June 16th, 2017 as they were trying to avoid at least 1 area with a very heightened terrorism threat. My 23 y.o. daughter originally flew into London Heathrow the afternoon of the London Bridge attack, but flew to Paris before it occurred. While in Paris, they visited Notre Dame on Tuesday June 6th, the day before the attack on the police officer occurred on June 7th. On June 8th, they visited the Louvre, & while in the mall area-2 iron gates came crashing down before them with directions in @ first French, then English, telling them to immediately Evacuate! Evacuate! the building, but never did find out why, nor at that point, did they particularly care! My daughter & niece were so traumatized by these events & the constant wail of sirens during the duration of their visit to Paris, that they almost wanted to cut short the remainder of their 2 week European vacation. They left Paris on Saturday, June 10th & headed to Venice/Rome, Italy & Mykonos, Greece, which were all relatively uneventful from a terrorism standpoint & were able to actually enjoy themselves while there. Unfortunately, when she booked her itinerary in February, she was only able to book her return flight by way of Mykonos to Athens, Athens to Paris, Paris to London, & London to Chicago, O hare. So they purposely missed the Paris to London leg of the trip, to avoid having to be back in Paris, where incidentally 1-2 days after they returned home, was when the guy tried to blow up his car on the busy Paris boulevard. They did this by booking a totally different flight from Athens directly to London, thereby avoiding in their minds, a potential area of
terrorism. They notified American Airlines before they missed the Paris to London leg of the trip, which as you indicated cancelled the entire trip, even though they had already printed their boarding passes for the London to Chicago flight. Both of them purchased flight insurance. My daughter was charged an additional $532 & niece charged $732 dollars to come home on a flight that they were already booked on. They are seeking to be reimbursed for the above re-booking fees due to them feeling completely unsafe in Paris & not wanting to have to go back through Paris to get home.
terrorism. They notified American Airlines before they missed the Paris to London leg of the trip, which as you indicated cancelled the entire trip, even though they had already printed their boarding passes for the London to Chicago flight. Both of them purchased flight insurance. My daughter was charged an additional $532 & niece charged $732 dollars to come home on a flight that they were already booked on. They are seeking to be reimbursed for the above re-booking fees due to them feeling completely unsafe in Paris & not wanting to have to go back through Paris to get home.