May 5, 2025, 4:13 pm
EWR Runway Construction (Mar-Dec 2025, 2 June runway reopen) / Compounding ATC Issues
May 20, 2025 | 2:54 pm
#376
Join Date: Feb 2002
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KEWR 201936Z 2020/2124 33008KT P6SM SCT040 SCT250 FM202100 VRB05KT P6SM BKN040 FM210700 07008KT P6SM BKN018 OVC040 FM211400 10010KT 6SM -RA BKN012 OVC020 FM211900 10014KT 5SM -RA BR BKN010 OVC020
May 20, 2025 | 3:52 pm
#377
Join Date: Oct 2022
Location: CLT/RDU
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Posts: 62
Has anyone else noticed schedule changes for the end of May and early June for flights to/from EWR loaded in the last couple of days? Eg. UA seems to have trimmed one of the EWR/CLT flights on my travel date in early June, but haven't gotten any notification from UA and my res still shows the old flight which is no longer available for booking.
Any thoughts, or others seeing this too?
Any thoughts, or others seeing this too?
May 21, 2025 | 4:55 am
#378
Join Date: Feb 2003
Programs: UA1K, *G & Wife of UA1K MM
Posts: 3,525
Has anyone else noticed schedule changes for the end of May and early June for flights to/from EWR loaded in the last couple of days? Eg. UA seems to have trimmed one of the EWR/CLT flights on my travel date in early June, but haven't gotten any notification from UA and my res still shows the old flight which is no longer available for booking.
Any thoughts, or others seeing this too?
Any thoughts, or others seeing this too?
We were scheduled on a flight that got trimmed and we got the changed itinerary notification at the top of our reservation.
May 21, 2025 | 5:51 am
#379
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: NYC
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Posts: 343
The FAA announced further restrictions through June 15, but UA hasnt extended their waiver past 5/23. Anyone else think thats going to change? DL released their own waiver not too long after the announcement and I was able to rebook those flights in less than five minutes.
May 21, 2025 | 5:55 am
#380
Join Date: Oct 2022
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Thanks, just this morning I saw the schedule change banner in the app. My old flight was indeed cancelled and I was moved to one two hours earlier. This was for travel the first week of June. Interestingly, the new flight no longer appears for reservation on united.com, but Expertflyer seems to indicate it's just sold out.
May 21, 2025 | 8:01 am
#382
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CLE, DCA, and 30k feet
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Posts: 5,632
Per flightstats.com ship N773UA was to operate that flight.
Per flightaware.com N773UA last night departed from HNL as UA1169 originally bound for LAX but diverted to HNL, the two subsequent flights (LAX-EWR-LAX) have canceled and the next scheduled flight for that frame is UA3019 (expect that this is a ferry flight) in a bit over 17 hours from the time I'm typing this.
This suggests that there was a maintenance issue however the flight status on UA.com for 1169 sounds absurd: "Your flight is canceled because of issues with the airport's security checkpoints. We're sorry for the inconvenience." -- but per this thread on Reddit it appears there was an onboard security incident/passenger threat issue that prompted the return to gate.
Edited to add: Per ACARS appears to support that there was a bomb threat:
Last edited by lincolnjkc; May 21, 2025 at 8:07 am
May 21, 2025 | 9:15 am
#383
Join Date: Apr 2010
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Potentially however the cookie crumbs I'm seeing point more at aircraft availability, possibly the two combined together.
Per flightstats.com ship N773UA was to operate that flight.
Per flightaware.com N773UA last night departed from HNL as UA1169 originally bound for LAX but diverted to HNL, the two subsequent flights (LAX-EWR-LAX) have canceled and the next scheduled flight for that frame is UA3019 (expect that this is a ferry flight) in a bit over 17 hours from the time I'm typing this.
This suggests that there was a maintenance issue however the flight status on UA.com for 1169 sounds absurd: "Your flight is canceled because of issues with the airport's security checkpoints. We're sorry for the inconvenience." -- but per this thread on Reddit it appears there was an onboard security incident/passenger threat issue that prompted the return to gate.
Edited to add: Per ACARS appears to support that there was a bomb threat:
Per flightstats.com ship N773UA was to operate that flight.
Per flightaware.com N773UA last night departed from HNL as UA1169 originally bound for LAX but diverted to HNL, the two subsequent flights (LAX-EWR-LAX) have canceled and the next scheduled flight for that frame is UA3019 (expect that this is a ferry flight) in a bit over 17 hours from the time I'm typing this.
This suggests that there was a maintenance issue however the flight status on UA.com for 1169 sounds absurd: "Your flight is canceled because of issues with the airport's security checkpoints. We're sorry for the inconvenience." -- but per this thread on Reddit it appears there was an onboard security incident/passenger threat issue that prompted the return to gate.
Edited to add: Per ACARS appears to support that there was a bomb threat:
May 21, 2025 | 10:38 am
#384
Join Date: Apr 2015
Programs: United Global Services, Amtrak Select Executive
Posts: 4,854
Potentially however the cookie crumbs I'm seeing point more at aircraft availability, possibly the two combined together.
Per flightstats.com ship N773UA was to operate that flight.
Per flightaware.com N773UA last night departed from HNL as UA1169 originally bound for LAX but diverted to HNL, the two subsequent flights (LAX-EWR-LAX) have canceled and the next scheduled flight for that frame is UA3019 (expect that this is a ferry flight) in a bit over 17 hours from the time I'm typing this.
This suggests that there was a maintenance issue however the flight status on UA.com for 1169 sounds absurd: "Your flight is canceled because of issues with the airport's security checkpoints. We're sorry for the inconvenience." -- but per this thread on Reddit it appears there was an onboard security incident/passenger threat issue that prompted the return to gate.
Edited to add: Per ACARS appears to support that there was a bomb threat:
Per flightstats.com ship N773UA was to operate that flight.
Per flightaware.com N773UA last night departed from HNL as UA1169 originally bound for LAX but diverted to HNL, the two subsequent flights (LAX-EWR-LAX) have canceled and the next scheduled flight for that frame is UA3019 (expect that this is a ferry flight) in a bit over 17 hours from the time I'm typing this.
This suggests that there was a maintenance issue however the flight status on UA.com for 1169 sounds absurd: "Your flight is canceled because of issues with the airport's security checkpoints. We're sorry for the inconvenience." -- but per this thread on Reddit it appears there was an onboard security incident/passenger threat issue that prompted the return to gate.
Edited to add: Per ACARS appears to support that there was a bomb threat:
May 21, 2025 | 5:17 pm
#385
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Central New Jersey
Posts: 1,314
Even with a pretty wet day, interesting that only 5 flights canceled at EWR today (all airlines). Though my wife flew to LAX this morning, and it waited on the tarmac for over an hour after leaving the gate (single runway operation at that time) but arrived at LAX "only" 25 minutes late.
May 21, 2025 | 7:03 pm
#386
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May 21, 2025 | 7:17 pm
#387
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: KEWR
Programs: Marriott Platinum
Posts: 899
Crew pay, duty limitations, fuel planning, the augmentation of flights are all predicated on published block times. United doesnt just willingly add a few minutes just because.
Last edited by clubord; May 22, 2025 at 10:54 am
May 21, 2025 | 8:06 pm
#388
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: BNA
Programs: HH Silver. (Former UA PP, DL PM, PC Plat)
Posts: 9,477
I get similarly planned taxi times on flights leaving ORD during a departure push. Seems pretty reasonable.
May 22, 2025 | 11:44 am
#390
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