Does my flight exist?
 

I am booked on UA1034 on 3/23 ORD-IAH on an ANA (205) ticket.

This was originally the 787 flight.

Now, I cannot pull up this flight anywhere, not even in Sabre, doesnt even show up as zeroed out. Air Canada who operates first flight into YYZ, says ORD-IAH is cancelled.

Its not loaded into any system, and even united mobile cannot find it, neither can .bomb

Two agents I spoke too say, this is still a legit, one said, its sold out.... but wouldnt a sold out flight still show up as all zeroes across the board?

The seat map is all greyed out in my reservation.

Any opinions on this flight? Does it exist or not?

My guess is no, at least not with the 787. Perhaps ANA swapped another plane in. Did you call them?

never mind, should have checked united cargo.

Air Canada just doesnt know what they are talking about, as always.
Complicated by the fact this is an ANA ticket, with a UA codeshare, AC operated first flight :cool:

this seems to be a poster child for a problematic itin. :D

Hmm, I'm not sure why this wasn't showing up on mobile.united.com earlier? This works fine for me:

https://mobile.united.com/FlightStat...dOption=Status

(For anyone reading along, this is not scary or particularly hard to do -- you can just, like, look up the 21 March version of this flight then click into the address bar and edit the link that is there.)

Looks like your flight is currently scheduled to be operated by "Aircraft: Boeing 737-800W | #3259", and to run from 1117-1359 on 21 March ORD-IAH. The seat map does look pretty full (completely full in F, some unassigned seats in Y), and F and Y are both booked at least to capacity ("United First® : Full", "United Economy® : Full"). Nine people have been upgraded in advance in a way that makes them show up on the upgrade list.

I dunno how this actually works, but I've certainly seen some "really full" flights not show up in availability searches -- like, they don't even show up in the search results that normally show "yes, there are four flights today and three of them are all zeroes". I've seen this happen for extremely full flights on united.com and also in the expertflyer.com "availability display" (even limited to nonstop options on a single carrier).

This is what is happening most likely, and it makes sense in a way.

I am in paid F, but will happily volunteer for a reroute, I m not in a hurry to get anywhere :o

but now you will suffer AC horrid service..:D

and appears it was in reality http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ly-united.html


and you did not even need to volunteer :D