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Old Oct 21, 2004 | 2:25 pm
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Originally Posted by BlatheringPenguin
on 1.: Sometimes I long for the reverse down here in LA. "I said 'BUR'!!! Don't show me flights out of SNA, LAX, ONT, SBA (!??!)..."

on 2.: I've found ual.com very unreliable on showing available flights. e.g. Search on "8am" for a flight that leaves at 8:05am and it doesn't find it. Search on "Morning" for the same flight and it does find it. Never trust that ual.com has given you all the options.

-BP
Agreed. Both of those are frequent problems. I generally will do my searching with Expedia beforehand and then try to get united.com to give me the same - which can be an exercise in futility sometimes.
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