Originally Posted by
exerda
I wonder how they'll make holding connecting flights work. You hold that flight, and it delays downstream connections. I suppose they can apply some magic algorithm to see how many people are impacted and by what measure, and take that into account... but that's way more faith in UA IT than I think is warranted. ...
Perhaps you're over-thinking this.
Instead of implementing sophisticated IT or procedural changes (a capability that demonstrably does not exist), all they need to do is add 1 hour to the scheduled flight time, then they can "make it up" in-flight.