Originally Posted by
halls120
Reading this reminds me why we never fly over holidays or other peak travel times. Stuff happens, and when everyone else is traveling, there is little room for accommodation.
I might modify this to say that given their generally poor operations, I do not take United over holidays. I have had bad experiences with post 2012 ua service recovery, and outside of rare examples just will not fly them at times/places where I need to count on service recovery.
as op said, having two straight Mx ewr-hkg, it is hard to think of an airline (cx, sq, lh, ba) flying these us to India flights that would not have just paid for op to fly on j on the me3 vs making them sit for 15 hours in y-.
that is really inexcusable in my book on a paid j trip.