Originally Posted by
Mike Jacoubowsky
Due to icy conditions at FRA today (Dec 1st), our BCN-FRA flight was delayed about two hours. That would cause us to misconnect with 927, scheduled to depart 5:25pm (our arrival ended up being about 5:30pm). UA 927 was initially booked full in all classes but left with 93 empty seats due to a lot of delays. It would have had to have been delayed about 45 minutes for a reasonable chance at most of the misconnects arriving at the gate.
The aircraft landed at 6pm:
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DOLH1131/1DEC
* OPERATIONAL FLIGHT INFO * LH1131 -2 SU 01DEC24
CITY INFO HOUR (LOCAL)
BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1600
DELAY AIRCRAFT ROTATION
LEFT THE GATE 1610
TOOK OFF 1620
ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1812 FRA
FRA AIRCRAFT LANDED 1759
ARRIVED 1809
*1A PLANNED FLIGHT INFO* LH1131 -2 SU 01DEC24 ASM
APT ARR DY DEP DY CLASS/MEAL EQP GRND EFT TTL
BCN 1405 SU JCDZP/RM YB/RG 321 2:15
MUHQVWSTLK/RG
FRA 1620 SU 2:15
History of the updates below. LH posted around 11am UTC (12noon local) that the flight is late and would land in FRA at 17:12.
Code:
DHLH1131/1DEC
LH 1131 /01DEC24
1.1035Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1430
2.1035Z X FRASELH 2BCN DELAY 08
3.1035Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1632 FRA
4.1057Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1510
5.1057Z X FRASELH 2BCN DELAY 08
6.1057Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1712 FRA
7.1115Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1510
8.1115Z X FRASELH 2BCN DELAY 08
9.1115Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1712 FRA
10.1120Z X BCNGFXH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1510
11.1120Z X BCNGFXH 2BCN DELAY 93
12.1120Z X BCNGFXH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1712 FRA
13.1147Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1540
14.1147Z X FRASELH 2BCN DELAY 93
15.1147Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1742 FRA
16.1214Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1752 FRA
17.1214Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1550
18.1214Z X FRASELH 2BCN DELAY 93
19.1239Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1605
20.1239Z X FRASELH 2BCN DELAY 93
21.1239Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1807 FRA
13.1147Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1540
14.1147Z X FRASELH 2BCN DELAY 93
15.1147Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1742 FRA
16.1214Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1752 FRA
17.1214Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1550
18.1214Z X FRASELH 2BCN DELAY 93
19.1239Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1605
20.1239Z X FRASELH 2BCN DELAY 93
21.1239Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1807 FRA
22.1326Z X BCNGFXH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1605
23.1326Z X BCNGFXH 2BCN DELAY 93
24.1326Z X BCNGFXH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1807 FRA
25.1413Z X FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1802 FRA
26.1413Z FRASELH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1600
27.1413Z FRASELH 2BCN DELAY 93
28.1519Z X FRA8DLH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1807 FRA
29.1519Z X FRA8DLH 2BCN LEFT THE GATE 1610
TOOK OFF 1619
30.1525Z BCNGFXH 2BCN ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1812 FRA
31.1525Z BCNGFXH 2BCN LEFT THE GATE 1610
TOOK OFF 1620
32.1711Z FRA8DLH 2BCN AIRCRAFT LANDED 1759
ARRIVED 1809
The inbound flight arrived two hours late. That was your indication that your connection was not going to happen in FRA and you could have started the rebooking process on the LH chat app. Not that it would have done anything, UA927 is one of the last US departures that time of day.
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DOLH1130/1DEC
* OPERATIONAL FLIGHT INFO * LH1130 -2 SU 01DEC24
CITY INFO HOUR (LOCAL)
FRA ESTIMATED TIME OF DEPARTURE 1310
DELAY CREW ROTATION
DELAY 08
LEFT THE GATE 1315
TOOK OFF 1339
ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL 1520 BCN
BCN AIRCRAFT LANDED 1509
ARRIVED 1513
*1A PLANNED FLIGHT INFO* LH1130 -2 SU 01DEC24 ASM
APT ARR DY DEP DY CLASS/MEAL EQP GRND EFT TTL
FRA 1115 SU JCDZP/RM YB/RG 321 2:05
MUHQVWSTLK/RG
BCN 1320 SU 2:05