Originally Posted by
mehitabel
Booked SFO-IAH-LGA. Looking at SDC, offered what appears to be a direct SFO-LGA on a 772(!) - option appears in both app and on website:
Of course flying time is too good to be true, plus direct SFO-LGA? No seat map available, but checking on ExpertFlyer, it's actually a connection through DEN, with DEN-LGA leg on an A320, arriving LGA 11:19PM. It's still all listed as UA1858, though.
I guess this isn't actually a SDC question, but I've never seen the phenomenon before. Is it a glitch, or is it common?
(Apology for image size - expected it to resize, no time to edit...)
It's a direct flight, that's why you're running into this (the flight number is the same). It's not super common, but a lot of us would know something is up as:
1)UA doesn't operate SFO-LGA nonstop
2) Most certainly doesn't fly 772's into LGA
3) the time makes no-sense. that is a glitch however, as it's showing you the SFO-DEN time, completely leaving out the next time. There was a post about this a couple pages ago.