Originally Posted by
physioprof
How much of your time & effort is all of this mishegas worth? It is centrally within the job of your company's travel staff to deal with stuff like this... Altho, based upon your posts here, it does seem like this is an enjoyable puzzle/challenge for you... 😹 😹 😹
Good point -- yes, I do enjoy a good challenge... much more than anything, I'm very curious what UA's response would be, having never dealt w/them before, and not having status w/them.
Will take into account the collective feedback from the folks here on chasing my corp travel agent for clawbacks v.s. training all guns on UA.
Originally Posted by
dcpdxtrans
I feel sorry for the OP who appears to be wasting his time with UA and not directing his energy at the source: the travel agent (and his company's policies). Shocking that a travel agent would tell its principal to correct the former's mistakes when that is his/her job.
While reading (parts of) this thread, I had the same thought: with 5h, buy a walk-up ticket OAL, make the SFO flight, and work to get the bag to the destination. I assume UA would get the bag there even if OP was not on 1st flight (UA) on a separate tix--correct?
I tried getting on another UA flight that runs LAS-SFO about 2 hrs before my delayed one would eventually leave.... that would have gotten me into SFO with a 1-hr transit time... more than enough to make my connecting SFO-SIN hop on SQ over at Concourse G.
However, that UA flight was massively oversold. More than 25 pax from my delayed flight crowded the next UA flight's gate, asking to be put on standby. I was lucky enough to be among the top 5 on standby, and even then, I didn't make that flight.
Gate agent said nobody on the standby list made the flight... an indication of how oversold it was.
There was another SouthWest flight that also left around that time. It departed from a faraway gate. Asked UA's agent-on-demand if I could be booked on that into SFO, but was told No. (Assume it's because SouthWest isn't part of *A and therefore that airline isn't on UA's available-partners-to-rebook-affected-passengers list?).
I suppose I could have just made a run for that flight and attempt to self-book on that plane... however, I was on the phone w/my travel agent by then, trying to figure out the SFO-SIN connection and couldn't multitask. Chose door #2 and had to live with that decision 🙂