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Jan 12, 2022 | 4:42 am

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Gnopps

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Flight zeroed out weeks in advance, a sign of cancellation coming?

I noticed that flight UA6018 BHM-IAH 0630-0835 shows zeroes in all classes on certain dates. For example Jan 22, 24, 25, 26 and more. Looking at the incoming aircraft UA6168 IAH-BHM the days before, those are zeroed out as well. I.e. the same aircraft has no availability neither in nor out of BHM.

Example BHM-IAH, Jan 22nd:

Code:

1 *UA6018 J0 C0 D0 Z0 P0 Y0 B0 /BHM IAH B 0630 0835 E0/E7W N 2:05
M0 E0 U0 H0 Q0 V0 W0 S0 T0 L0 K0 G0 N0
2 *UA4306 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 /BHM IAH B 0902 1115 E0/ERJ 2:13
V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K8 G6 N9
3 *UA4659 Y9 B9 M9 E9 U9 H9 Q9 /BHM IAH B 1510 1715 E0/CRJ N 2:05
V9 W9 S9 T9 L9 K9 G9 N9

To me this looks like those flights will be cancelled (especially considering the flight's history). My home airline SK sometimes does this and then it is a sure-tell sign that the flight will be cancelled a few days later.

So my question to those with more UA experience: Is this just UA playing around or are the flights likely to be cancelled? If the latter, when does the cancellation usually occur?

(I tried searching but didn't find a similar thread)

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