Definition of 'confirmed'?
 

So I had a flight today, LAS-IAH-EWR.

LAS-IAH (UA451) is showing a 2 1/2 hour delay... Looks like I'll misconnect the IAH-EWR Leg, So I approach the UC agent at LAS and he protects me on a later flight.

It shows up in my reservation, and indeed, I even get an email:

So what happens when I get to IAH and misconnect?

The UC agent here in IAH tells me there's no record of being protected on that flight, and the best she will do is put me on the standby list.

So what the hell does "you are confirmed on flight UA1631" mean?

Does the word 'confirmed' not mean what I think it means?!

Frustrated. 1631 is showing full - now I have to hope someone else misconnects!

I was proactive - I planned for this - and it still looks like I'll be spending the night in IAH.

Whether it's an upgrade, a seat assignment, an OAL award ticket..."confirmed' is all relative w/UA these days.

Make sure you get a hotel voucher. Good luck.

Why don't you either SDC onto a flight tomorrow (your profile says Premier Plat so you won't face any change fee) and just stay in Vegas, or alternatively there are a couple LAS - EWR direct red-eyes, they should be able to move you there and you can retroactively request ORC if that's the issue.

Red eye was full and unfortunately, now I'm in IAH. LAS flights won't help ;)

Can't SDC b/c everything is full. Ugh.

.. And yes, if the SBY doesn't clear, a hotel voucher is next battle. They'll blame it on weather - watch ...

OP seems to already be in IAH.

Yep my mistake OP. Missed the part where you said you were already in IAH, my bad. Good luck with the SBY, hopefully if not they'll give you a hotel voucher and won't pull the weather card.

By the way experflyer is showing this for that flight, the UC agent should be able to force you onto the flight since you misconnected you shouldn't have to standby on this one, there is an open economy seat still showing.

F0 A0 Z0 P0 Y1 B1 M1 E1 U1 H1 Q1 V1 W1 S1 T1 L1 K1 G1 N1

Son of a ....!

Let me hustle to the gate.

THANK YOU!!

Found a friendly CS agent, told her I loved her, and I'm confirmed!

Thank you again -- I need an EF subscription. Been putting it off, but I need more tools!

You can use UA website to look up availability by fare class ( be sure to turn expert mode on ). Or you can use flightstats. But people here stated that flightstats is not real-time availability.

not to jinx you, but haven't you heard that before :D

LOLOLOLOL!! I guess what I should say is 'I have a boarding pass in hand!' :)

It's a PITA from my mobile ... Expert mode was much better when it showed fare classes on my reservation. As far as I can tell now, the only place I can use expert mode is when booking a flight. The in-reservation link was much handier. :/

EF is worth its weight in gold in these situations, especially since .bomb generally refuses to show complicated routings involving more than one stop or stops in spoke cities without heavy manipulation in multicity searches.

No worries glad it worked out! I had to redeem myself from misreading your original post so you know, I'll call it even.

As for EF, I'd been putting it off myself for a while until I started booking an award ticket and then I got it. It easily paid for itself over Memorial Day in an IRROPS when it got me onto a same day flight on US Air vs. United who was trying to make me wait until a Saturday night flight. Best part being the mobile interface is pretty good and as you referenced below you can't use expert mode on .bomb using a mobile device so it can be clutch in situations where mobile is the only option