Originally Posted by studentff
A warning in advance:
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With linked records, the old adage about checking the website often applies double. Last time I did this, I had to call to re-fix the seats no less than 3 times in the 5 weeks between booking and travel.
This is very good, very important advice. The scattering of record locators and seat assignments when there is a schedule change, or even just a flight number change, has been a problem on several occasions in the past year.
UA sometimes notifies you of a change, and sometimes does not. I now routinely check the website 'my itineraries' display at least once a week. (For example, I was connecting from a UA international flight at LAX to SEA. One month, the original connecting flight was advanced in time so that the connection would not work; we were put on the next flight about 3 hrs. later. Then, the following month that later flight was pushed back even further, and we faced a 4-5 hr. wait; but our original flight had been pushed back to its previous time allowing a connection like that originally booked. But the UA computer had simply put us on the later flight. So do check your itineraries regularly.
Flyer 420