Originally Posted by TechnfxRick

2 friends of mine were on this flight. They apparently downgraded about 30 people and removed about 50 from the flight to add extra fuel. Then taxi’d out to the runway when the pilot came on and said there wasn’t enough pilots to make the flight now with the diversion so came back and cancelled. They then waited for 9 hours to get United to reschedule them… it was a pretty horrific travel day and handling by United.