Ua 1411: Den-cle-lax-ewr?
May 31, 2011, 11:07 am
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Ua 1411: Den-cle-lax-ewr?
Was looking at flights from DEN-EWR in August and noticed this bizarre routing: UA 1411 (operated by a CO 738) flies Denver-Cleveland-Los Angeles-Newark. On Saturday, you can take UA 1611 -- another direct flight DEN-EWR -- which files Denver-Houston-Seattle-Newark. Each takes around 14 hours.
I feel terrible for the inexperienced flyer who books this trip online and ends up touring the country before getting to EWR!
I feel terrible for the inexperienced flyer who books this trip online and ends up touring the country before getting to EWR!
May 31, 2011, 11:28 am
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Similar to the ORD-STT-SJU-IAD flight (not sure if STT os SJU is 1st stop). I booked someone on it durring irrops last week, and when I looked at the total journey time, I realized my error and found a more direct "direct" routing.
May 31, 2011, 11:34 am
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I've noticed it too. Alot of the flights are having bizarre routings. For example 1880 used to originate in SEA and would go to EWR, now starting around July I believe 1880 will go IAH-SEA-EWR. As for the round about den-ewr routing, if there's a crew change along the way, the passengers would have to get off while the new crew does there security checks.
May 31, 2011, 11:40 am
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Was looking at flights from DEN-EWR in August and noticed this bizarre routing: UA 1411 (operated by a CO 738) flies Denver-Cleveland-Los Angeles-Newark. On Saturday, you can take UA 1611 -- another direct flight DEN-EWR -- which files Denver-Houston-Seattle-Newark. Each takes around 14 hours.
May 31, 2011, 12:20 pm
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It is bookable, though I can't get it to price on .bomb. Travelocity pulls it up no problem. Since it books as a direct fight, however, you will only get the non-stop miles between DEN-EWR despite the long jaunt.
May 31, 2011, 1:23 pm
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Over the weekend during the infamous disappearing and reappearing seat assignments and renumbering of flights, one leg of my roundtrip CLE-MCO and back in a couple months got renumbered. Now both the CLE-MCO and the MCO-CLE are CO 1461! Wonder if you could book CLE to CLE for zero miles net! :P
(Yes, you can actually even book both 1461s for the same date; who knows if it's actually on the same plane though. I've been on flights on US with one number and a stop at PIT back in the day that ended up involving a plane change, sometimes even to a different type like from a 737 to a F-100 back then! Yes, a light load was involved and it was open seating on the second leg.)
(Yes, you can actually even book both 1461s for the same date; who knows if it's actually on the same plane though. I've been on flights on US with one number and a stop at PIT back in the day that ended up involving a plane change, sometimes even to a different type like from a 737 to a F-100 back then! Yes, a light load was involved and it was open seating on the second leg.)
May 31, 2011, 1:30 pm
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May 31, 2011, 3:15 pm
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May 31, 2011, 3:20 pm
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Anybody have a definitive answer?