Most carriers follow IATA standards and have similar contract of carriage. By you paying for a ticket and ATA accepting your money, you have entered into a contract. http://www.ata.com/pdfs_docs/atacoc.pdf Reading through it (page 47 of the PDF), it sounds like you don't have much to back you up. ATA, as the nature of their business, don't offer much other than handing your money back. But a little logic may carry the day. You formed a contract with ATA with the "reasonable" expectation of service outlined in the terms (i.e. the ticket.) The terms include an arrival time. By changing that arrival time (a "schedule irregularity"), by 9 hours, something completely within ATA's control, by a number of hours that is hard to quantify as reasonable, ATA has 'violated' the terms of the contract and you should be subject to "remedies." Unfortunately the remedy highlighted over and over again is your money back, which is useless at this late in the game. .. though I find it hard to believe that ATA has flights from MDW to BOS every 9 hours. (there are specific rules on this circumstance as well.) Good luck. Matthew On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 01:05 PM, Tyler Munoz wrote: > My girlfriend is headed SFO-BOS on ATA this Friday. They just called > to > tell her that there has been a schedule change on ATA and will cause > her > to have about a eight hour layover at MDW. ATA is telling her that > there is no way they can get her on another flight. > > Can anyone point me to the DOT rules on flights changing from the > airline as opposed to an "act of god." I know that they will change > their tune as soon as I can bring up the government rules on the issue. > > Thanks in advance, > tyler >