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Old Feb 6, 2019 | 6:36 am
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Originally Posted by neuro0
Hi all,

I have an award on CX from ORD in May. I can fly to ORD on either AA or UA. They pretty much arrive at the same time with about 150 minutes connection. The AA flight is a regional flight by Envoy while the UA flight is a mainline. The question is which flight should I buy? AA is $50 more. Will UA has better on time arrival considering it is a mainline flight? By choosing AA, I will at least in theory has irrop protection given this is all Oneworld flights but I fear regional flight suffer more delay and cancellation.
Any ORD expert opinion?
Before I would do anything rash, I would see if any type of award inventory opens up from your point of origin to ORD.

Another point is that if you were to fly UA, and ANYTHING happened to make you miss the CX flight, you'd be SOL..
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