Originally Posted by
dand99
I am not looking to debate whether or not it is right for UA to offer these flights, I am more interested in knowing what actually happened on the ground when pax missed these connections.
I assume that is UA 905 and 1580 with a 1h19m connection. If you are on time into EWR then this is possible, in theory.
Don't do it if you want to get to LAS the same day, regardless of what the UA agent does. If you book this, your question is whether UA will, in the event of a missed connection:
- Give you meal & hotel vouchers.
- Route you on another airline if the next day's UA flights are sold-out.
If you misconnect the best case scenario is onto the 7pm to ORD with a 59min connection to an AA flight. There's a 620p DL via MSP, but that's only 26 minutes later and from a different terminal. There's also a 9:30pm B6 departure from JFK, but that's totally unrealistic. UA won't do any of those if they have any excuse (e.g. a 5 minute weather delay, etc.).
Regardless of the reason for a misconnect, you will get rebooked on the next "available" flight, whatever that means. In any case it would be the next day (via ORD then AA being the only real possible exception).