Originally Posted by
iplaybass
It's always better if you can say "I want this because my flight changed." Been doing that a lot with AA and DL lately. The refund would go to travel on another carrier (probably BA/IB through AA). When researching flights, UA had some ridiculous layovers in FRA/MUC/ZRH to VCE. Anywhere from 50 minutes to 5 hrs. Restriction was I wanted to land by noon or thereabouts, not 1pm or later. I'll look to see if there's better options EU transfer options now.
You can do STL-ORD-FRA/MUC-VCE with a CR5 to ORD; I can't really say anything about their suitability to you since I have no idea what you consider a non "ridiculous" layover. I would much prefer 0h50 in FRA to many other things, including 1h30 from an Express flight to TATL at ORD.
I imagine if you push for a refund you might get one, but it would be harder.