An enhancement to UA's "Flight summary" page?!?
Mar 10, 2011, 7:48 am
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An enhancement to UA's "Flight summary" page?!?
I just went to check the status of a flight a relative of mine was on this morning, and I noticed something that, I believe, is new.
When you click on the "Flight status" tab on the homepage, you enter in the flight information as usual -- I wanted to see all LGA-ORD flights this morning -- but now, in easy-to-read bold type next to each flight's estimated departure and arrival times, it clearly says "On Time," "Early" or "Delayed," making it easy to read down the entire bank of flights and see what's going on.
Nice feature ^
When you click on the "Flight status" tab on the homepage, you enter in the flight information as usual -- I wanted to see all LGA-ORD flights this morning -- but now, in easy-to-read bold type next to each flight's estimated departure and arrival times, it clearly says "On Time," "Early" or "Delayed," making it easy to read down the entire bank of flights and see what's going on.
Nice feature ^
Mar 10, 2011, 7:55 am
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Yes, that's new. And also sometimes if you search (for example) JFK-IAD, it'll show you all NYC area airport - IAD flights. Sometimes that's a good and bad thing, depending on the information you wanted and how quickly you wanted it.
Mar 10, 2011, 7:56 am
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Yes that is new... I noticed it for the first time ~2 weeks ago and I figured someone had already posted it! But I never saw a thread til now. It's a welcome change... however CO's is still way better.
Mar 10, 2011, 8:10 am
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Why? To me it's more annoying, actually. If I plug in say "EWR-ORD," the next page has all the flights, but you have to click on each one individually in order to see its status. On UA, you can see all the flights at once, to see what the trend is in a glance.
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something?
Mar 10, 2011, 8:33 am
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Why? To me it's more annoying, actually. If I plug in say "EWR-ORD," the next page has all the flights, but you have to click on each one individually in order to see its status. On UA, you can see all the flights at once, to see what the trend is in a glance.
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something?
Agreed that UA is way better than CO when it comes to this. And nothing is more annoying that AA when you put in EWR-ORD and it shows you all the LGA/JFK flights as well. Now if we can just get the CO screens that show you the upgrade/standby list, seatmap, etc.
Mar 10, 2011, 9:56 am
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Seems like we lost functionality - can't even drill down to see the aircraft type anymore. 
Mar 10, 2011, 9:59 am
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Mar 10, 2011, 11:51 am
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Mar 10, 2011, 1:35 pm
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Noticed it when I was checking the status of my flights on 3/1 but I had to use http://mobile.united.com (slower on my ancient cell phone) vs http://ua.flightlookup.com/ as when I input the flight number, I get this (and yes, the info is all blank):
Flight Status
FLIGHT
Flight:
Date:
Status:
DEPARTURE
Airport: ()
Scheduled departure:
Reason:
Terminal:
Gate:
ARRIVAL
Airport: ()
Scheduled arrival:
Reason:
Terminal:
Gate:
Baggage claim:
IN FLIGHT
Expected total time enroute:
Meal:
Entertainment:
FLIGHT
Flight:
Date:
Status:
DEPARTURE
Airport: ()
Scheduled departure:
Reason:
Terminal:
Gate:
ARRIVAL
Airport: ()
Scheduled arrival:
Reason:
Terminal:
Gate:
Baggage claim:
IN FLIGHT
Expected total time enroute:
Meal:
Entertainment: