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Old Nov 14, 2013 | 9:15 am
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Originally Posted by HkCaGu
We had but 5 hours to sleep. This was after 8 hours at NRT and on the bus (and as most of us originated from DEN/LAX, well past "bed time"), and before 17 hours of waiting, traffic, and waiting before 2/3 of those GUM flights took off.



There was no "weather" (until the next day). There were 5 domestic cancellations, all announced well before 2 pm, so probably nobody went to the airport. All other flights departed that night. From the 2 Dreamliners, only the few pax (TPE and SGN) got stuck in NRT for the night, beside us GUM-bound pax. And UA had probably already booked us BF pax to Kisarazu before announcing the cancellation.

And aside from the few NRT-originated pax, we were all "mechanicals" to begin with.
Given the clarifications about the situation, I think it's fair to ask UA why they chose the hotel location that they did. It would seem surprising on that day that there weren't any other closer options.
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