Originally Posted by
bmwe92fan
But it IS UA that decides which flights to cancel
Correct so far...
Originally Posted by
bmwe92fan
and you would think that at least they could be honest and say that "your flight wasn't important enough to keep" instead of the typical shoulder shrug and "sorry - it's not up to us" response I get all the time...
They do, by marking the flight as being cancelled because of of ATC imposed delays.
Originally Posted by
bmwe92fan
I live at a feeder airport largely served by UEX so this is literally all I see all the time so please forgive me if I don't understand why other airlines can somehow cope with issues that somehow seem to baffle UA schedulers...
Different airlines have different priorities in which flights they operate. The airlines have a lot of options with regard to which tradeoffs they prefer (cancels vs delays, putting the burden on high frequency routes vs low frequency routes, etc). Operating a route on a day vs not across different airlines (your original post/complaint), in and of itself, means nothing.