Well,
KBPsen, I think that you are true that no one conned him but what appears to be the seat of the problem is not being told of the change. With that, I am in full sympathy with the OP as I've had the same same problem when travelling on FR and VS - and I was paying full whack. Whilst I will say - you have to check - we ought NOT to have to check because the carrier could tell us. We had a long debate about this and BA last year in this forum.
The irritation is:-
- Carrier requires your email address to book.
- Carrier sends confirmation and e-ticket to your email address.
- Carrier changes time and .... does not have their computer send out emails to all the pax who have booked that flight.
- If the time of travel is near - they could send an SMS.
- They have a cheap technical solution to their PR problem and the greatest majority of them don't use it.
- They are downright stupid. Their marketing managers should have asked the IT dept to fix it ten years ago.
- The IT dept should have prepared the fix and offered it to mgmt ten years ago!! After all, in 2003, I was advising a small town council how they could communicate better with their residents through two-way sms and NOT the dreadful Press-1 to listen to music systems that airlines still cling on to.