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I got stuck in IAD waiting for the UA122 to LHR since it went mechanical and delayed for almost 9 hours, leaving at the same time as the evening flight.

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And now to my question a friend told me it was delayed additionally by United to avoid landing at LHR at night since United would be charged extra for that, any truth to that?

So my first long haul trip with united in J ended up with one broken seat on SFO - HNL and that flight almost 4 hours late and then the IAD-LHR 8+ hrs delayed so far no response from UA and I got 14USD in meal vouchers for the delay on IAD :/. If this would have been an EU carrier I would go for my rights but here I hope at least I'll get an I'm sorry.