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UA mainline domestic flights grounded -- 22 Jan 2017 IT issue [STOP LIFTED]

Old Jan 22, 2017, 9:57 pm
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UA mainline domestic flights grounded -- 22 Jan 2017 IT issue [STOP LIFTED]

Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:44 pm
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Landed in IAH, waiting for a gate to open up. I see the regionals are still moving around, so we are taking one of their gates now.
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:44 pm
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Originally Posted by mazzer
Must be hell at IAD since all (?) flights Sunday and Monday have been 100% full for weeks due to the inauguration and protests!
Our flight is jammed with protesters, some carrying signs onto the plane. Lots of pink.

Capt said all flights out of IAD to LAX, SFO, and DEN tomorrow were totally full. Joy
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:45 pm
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The TRS-80 running United's IT must have pooped out.
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:45 pm
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Originally Posted by jclarke
not even Meme Magic can keep SHARES online.
What does SHARES have to do with the weight & balance system?
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:46 pm
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I was flying from ORD-NRT-GUM and had no real impacts. There were significant delays for the IAD and ORD flights into NRT yesterday but wasn't related to the ground stop, just maintenance issues.
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:46 pm
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Originally Posted by jclarke
not even Meme Magic can keep SHARES online.
FWIW, this failure is unrelated to SHARES.
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:46 pm
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Originally Posted by cedric
What does SHARES have to do with the weight & balance system?
Nothing.
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:47 pm
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Between the rain at SFO and now this. I'm on SFO-HKG tomorrow, hopefully they can recover.
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:50 pm
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Gate agent just came on board to announce some flights are slowly being released but if people wanted to get odd they could. Just say in the gate area becuase we will leave when we ate released.
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:50 pm
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In a very frustrating move, UA towing our plane to hanger so inbound can park. That'll add a 2 hour delay
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:52 pm
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GA just announced that there is a system wide ground stop at SFO and mainline flight is delayed by 1 hour.
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:53 pm
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Pilot in ord says he heard lax and den were slowly coming back on line so he was optimistic it wouldn't be too much longer
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:53 pm
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Originally Posted by nevansm
In a very frustrating move, UA towing our plane to hanger so inbound can park. That'll add a 2 hour delay
just heard an announcement of them doing the same in DEN for a PHX bound flight. Are there really no other open gates??
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 5:58 pm
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Originally Posted by JCrew7384
just heard an announcement of them doing the same in DEN for a PHX bound flight. Are there really no other open gates??
During the late afternoon/evening bank at DEN, I believe all (or nearly all) gates are in use. UA used gates on A extensively this summer and will be adding a few gates (4?) to the west end of B to help with the lack of capacity and planned growth.
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Old Jan 22, 2017, 6:01 pm
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Another hour befoew another update. Deplaning aircraft now
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