Observations from the evening at EWR as a line of storms rolled through around 6pm.
I was on the 815pm EWR-SFO which had an inbound that was due in around 7:15 (was worried that would divert).
Interestung enough they zeroed out the flight for revenue sales and blocked about 8 seats in business the day before when the waiver was announced. It had been a wide open flight that was R9 last weekend and lots of empty economy seats. Wonder if they did that to leave room for misconnects.
The 7:45pm departure had an inbound on the ground before the storm hit.
So I switched to that.
Went mechanical with 25 min delay just before departure but flights were just starting to take off after an hour ground stop.
Ended up needing a new aircraft and took a 4 hour delay.
Original 8:15 left only about 45 min late.
Lesson learned there.
UA wise they now text you your boarding pass is a $10 food voucher and make announcements in the concourse with the special rebooking hotline.
UA C90 club is now 1/3 under construction.
Gate areas were not the refugee camp feel you usually see with this sort of night.
People kept well informed, a lot more flights got out than I remember from past situations like this, and I guess lots of plugs at the OTG style gates keeps people occupied.