AA discontinue LAS-ORD red eye
Dec 20, 2013, 5:37 pm
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AA discontinue LAS-ORD red eye
HI. Newbie here. I think I am going crazy...For weeks I have been eyeing a 12:35am flight from Las Vegas to O'Hare on American. Sunday May 18th... Today, the flight no longer comes up anywhere, and when I called reservations they had no record of the flight (1056) existing.
Any chance this is a glitch or something? Or did they get rid of this flight? Any suggestions? I only see Spirit now with a direct redeye flight.
THANKS!!!
Any chance this is a glitch or something? Or did they get rid of this flight? Any suggestions? I only see Spirit now with a direct redeye flight.
THANKS!!!
Dec 20, 2013, 7:24 pm
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Welcome to Flyertalk. 
I have no idea whether the flight has been pulled, and I'm too lazy to even look.
Why? Because it's Saturday evening, and every Saturday night, AA loads schedule changes into the computers. Some weeks, that causes flights to "disappear" for an hour or several, even though the flights have not been cancelled. And invariably, people start new threads here asking about it. Same thing with mileage balances on aa.com every month when AA updates to a new month (which seems to be in mid-month).
I suggest waiting until Monday morning. If the flight doesn't show up on Monday, then perhaps it has been cancelled.
Personally, I doubt it has been cancelled.
I have no idea whether the flight has been pulled, and I'm too lazy to even look.
Why? Because it's Saturday evening, and every Saturday night, AA loads schedule changes into the computers. Some weeks, that causes flights to "disappear" for an hour or several, even though the flights have not been cancelled. And invariably, people start new threads here asking about it. Same thing with mileage balances on aa.com every month when AA updates to a new month (which seems to be in mid-month).
I suggest waiting until Monday morning. If the flight doesn't show up on Monday, then perhaps it has been cancelled.
Personally, I doubt it has been cancelled.
Dec 20, 2013, 10:57 pm
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The only other consideration is that US has a ton of LAS-PHX-ORD flights.
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Dec 21, 2013, 6:56 pm
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3/31 seems to be the last day that flight is scheduled (at this time.)
Dec 21, 2013, 8:36 pm
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Dec 21, 2013, 10:11 pm
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SEA-ORD redeye looks gone too. However I'm filing both of these in the "who gives a $#!+, I'd never take a three-hour domestic redeye anyways" folder.
Dec 22, 2013, 11:45 am
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Dec 22, 2013, 12:33 pm
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Dec 22, 2013, 8:43 pm
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Actually, US only has five flights PHX ORD (not a ton really) and none are redeyes; if you're gonna 1-stop it you may as well go backwards to LAX or SFO and get the additional miles and better aircraft. From PHX if push comes to shove, the new AA will have 10 flights so that will be good but assuming no changes to schedule only changes to flight numbers, there will still be zero RE (from PHX) save the Spirit you mentioned. There is a UA redeye in the spring LAS-ORD but of the nine dailies on WN none are redeyes (from LAS) and none of the eight from PHX are RE either.
Dec 23, 2013, 4:06 am
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The only redeye out of LAS will be LAS-MIA (Dep: 11:00 pm). There was a time when (several years ago) there were 3: MIA, ORD, DFW. If you wanted to go from LAS to (say) LGA, ORD which departed after midnight, left same day standby options, which the MIA won't permit.