Originally Posted by
channa
I think the situation was well played, and the only thing I might have done differently is try to push for an OAL reroute just to drive up the cost of the incident as a punitive measure to UA. But from the sounds of things, stuff was pretty full, so that might not have been an option.
I checked Kayak and wasn't seeing anything else that would help me get into AUS any earlier or even as early as the reroute offered.