This has happened to me many times over the years, usually after a late night or redeye.
I have now become extremely paranoid, and I ask the GA several times about the flight, etc., just to be sure.
I do not think this is an IDB situation. Probably, the gate change happened very early, and you got hosed because you were there even earlier.
albatross
Originally Posted by SNA1K
Today I'm sitting at gate E2A, arriving at ORD with a long 2.5 hour layover before my flight to IND. After Cinnabon, etc. I get to the gate around 7am for my 8:30am flight--plenty of time to read the paper, catch up on other reading, make phone calls--and I am doing just that. Around 8:15 we should be boarding but there still is no incoming plane--OK, UX has that frequently so I was just waiting. Around 8:25 still no plane and no announcement as to the delay, so I get up and walk to the unmanned podium and it says "St Louis, 9:30am". Where is my IND flight? I run to the monitor and find that it was moved to F14 without any announcment at E2A at all.
I run down to E2A and get there at 8:28 with the plane still sitting at the gate and the door open. The GAs refuse to allow me to board and I watch the plane taxi away while waiting for the supervisor. The next flight to IND is on AA at 11:33 so I was quite late for my meeting.
Anyway...it was my mistake for not continually checking the monitors I guess, but shouldn't UA make sure that in a gate change that the original gate has an announcement made. The GA told me that I was paged throughout the F terminal but that does little good when I'm sitting in E.
Should this be considered an IDB?