Well said. The audacity of the OP to complain over a multiple of non-status pax that would have misconnected and created a 24-hour delay versus their much shorter single-person delay that did not involve a misconnect is truly shocking. I guess the OP's status entitles them to believe that their one hour is more important than the other party's 24...well, 96 if you want to be picky.

One would think that a frequent flier on any airline would want to see their airline of choice succeed and do right by people as much as possible so the airline could continue to provide the travel experience that said frequent flier wants to keep on experiencing. The downside incurred of hours lost, hotel nights at UA's cost, general bad blood, and almost assuredly some other kind of compensation that would result from the inevitable nasty letter that would follow those SYD pax misconnecting is apparently still not enough for the OP to realize that those people getting the seats and you not getting a seat was a good call on UA's part.

I'm defending the majority's position on an issue in the UA forum...someone must have put angel dust in my coffee.