JDT1955

Still, it's nice to know you're as frustrated as we are. Plan C, if current flight falls thru, is the WN nonstop in the morning, who didn't seem to cancel anything out of here today (but then again they fly only 737s). I really do hope that UA reevaluates their policies regarding low temperatures, which, after all, occur most every winter!

jimquan

Mesa 3759 dba United Express IAD to BOS

First they diverted back to IAD then made an emergency landing somewhere in Delaware. Oxygen masks deployed according to onboard witness, report of ruptured fuel line and smoke. All safe.

Interesting flight path: they go halfway up NJ then turned back then diverted.

Jim

mahasamatman

My guess is that at the point they decided to divert, they thought they could make it back to the maintenance base safely, but then the condition turned out to be worse than they originally thought.

jimquan

Agreed

winstoda

http://www.delawareonline.com/articl...Castle-Airport

Long Zhiren

UA's track record of cancelled/delayed this January hasn't been too exciting.

I cancelled out on my UA itinerary for 4 January: RSW-DEN-SFO.
Lucky me.
I went by AA on 5 January: RSW-ORD-SJC. totally on time.

While meandering around at ORD on January 5, I noticed that AA and DL were operating upwards of 70+% of their flights.

At F terminal, the UA board showed 90+% cancellations for the day. It was weird seeing no planes at the jet bridges. I wish that I had my camera with me, just to photography the zilched out UA flight board! Not only that, the UA Club lounges were closed and dark. The only UA flights that were not cancelled were a fraction of the major trunk routes like ORD-SFO and a few international flights. At B & C concourses, it was a ghost town. I swear it was just me, a few security people and a few custodians.

With DEN, ORD, CLE, IAD and EWR hit hard simultaneously, UA must have gone for a ride.

What did AA and DL do right that day? Was it just super bad luck for UA? The AA crews at RSW were telling me that they had their fingers crossed the entire day, with the AA management advising the AA crews not to even check-out of their hotel rooms, with high likelihood of not going anywhere. The UA desk at RSW looked like a painful crush of marooned passengers. Nobody else at RSW was suffering anywhere near as much.

GregMM

That's what one of the passengers they interviewed on the BOS news said.

http://www.whdh.com/story/24575375/d...smoke-on-plane

"...so low so at that point everybody assumed we were going to land in the water and it wasn't going to end well. Right until five seconds before the plane touched down we thought it was going to be water then suddenly we saw an airstrip out of one of our windows,”

Passengers reported that oxygen masks came down about 15 minutes into the flight, but the pilot said they were going to continue on at a lower altitude. A short time later passengers reported smoke on the plane and that's when the pilot decided to make an emergency landing in Delaware.

invisible

Subj. Sitting at gate now. Plane is here, but there is no crew, which supposed to arrive from New Orleans. The announcement below was just made GA:

I might sound sarcastic, but is there any compensation due? I am watching how one 'gentlemen' is making big stink right now - 'I am former GS. You should not treat us like this.'

mgcsinc

DYKWIUTB????

mahasamatman

It depends on the reason for the delay.

invisible

GA tried to address this already - 'it is weather related delay, so you might won't get anything'.

At there same time, what is not weather related delay this days?

mahasamatman

So you already have your answer.

tom911

Seem to recall that first week of January (you reference January 5 travel), was when there were problems with the pilot scheduling software, an issue that competitors were not facing. Take a look at this thread:
Bloomberg: United Said to Struggle With Computer Switch

EPMER1

Anyone know why UA15 (EWR-HNL) was diverted to SFO?

WineCountryUA

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