AMEN. This has been annoying the heck out of me lately. Just put a button as mentioned to 'accept' the schedule change on the website.

Here BTW is what I have discovered is the list of things you cannot do if there is a pending schedule change on your reservation: Check-in online, sponsor an upgrade for someone, change seat asignments online, exchange an e-ticket and *new* with ua.beta: you can't print a legible flight itinerary out as it prints every friggin segment, pre and post schedule change (ie: seg1: depart 10:55a; seg2: depart 10:58a). I would say that at least 90%+ of my and my friend's flights have had schedule changes recently. 90%. That in and of itself is indeed excessive in my book.