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Just had to cancel my 10-year passport renewal appointment for tomorrow morning, since it's in London and I'm in the EU. Man, this was a *miserable* way to spend a day. The flight kept getting bumped, heading for certain cancellation (it came, about midnight, long after I had returned from the airport); GPT was incredibly helpful on how to redeem (most of) the shit-ton of money I had paid for a 4-hour passport renewal appointment, and what my rights and obligations were in this situation.

In particular it pointed me to authority docs declaring that if a flight is 5+ hours late, you can refuse to fly, reclaim the money and exit the airport. So when the next update said that the flight had been bumped 9 hours, I had all I needed to secure that and went home. Two hours later, the app announced the flight was cancelled.

Sometimes (really a lot) I want to kick GPT's/Claude's/Gemini's collective rear ends. And then there are times like these, when, with me in a funk, AI cuts straight through to the essential knowledge I need and lowers the temperature.

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- US airlines do not pay cash for delays - You’re entitled to a full refund for a significant delay if you choose not to travel - Full refunds are paid within 7 business days for cards (20 calendar days for other payment methods) - Paid extras (baggage, upgrades) are refundable if you didn’t receive them - Airline policy dictates reimbursement for meals, hotels, and other expenses after a delay

- Delays your departure or arrival by 3 hours for domestic flights and 6 hours for international ones, - Changes to your departure or arrival airports, - Increases the number of connections - Downgrades your class of service - Changes your flight to different airports or aircraft that are less accessible for persons with disabilities."