We were scheduled to be on UA1297 MSY-IAH this morning, which was cancelled; we got re-booked to UA1699 this afternoon, which is also supposed to use a 737-900 Max, but is not (yet) cancelled. Maybe they inspected it already? I am holding out hope that our vacation in Mexico does not get any more delayed.

Even if we do fly out this afternoon, we’ve lost 7.5 hours of our trip. UA gave us each $15 meal vouchers for this, but would I be successful trying to extract any more compensation out of them?