Check Your UA Itineraries for Schedule Changes and what to do after one [Archive]
Mar 28, 2016, 12:34 pm
#812
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Check via flight status tool. Sometimes this type of call means the flight has been delayed far in advance.
Apr 4, 2016, 8:40 am
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You can easily change your routing after a sked change.
I don't think you can change your destination to another city unless there is no way to get to your booked destination (which there appears to be).
You could always ask to change destinations, and if this works, please let us know.
I don't think you can change your destination to another city unless there is no way to get to your booked destination (which there appears to be).
You could always ask to change destinations, and if this works, please let us know.
Is this change enough to ask for a next day SFO LAS flights instead of the last day flight of the day? Would that work?
Would prefere to stay in SFO for the night...
Apr 4, 2016, 3:55 pm
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I would like to ask experts about this schedule change of around 30 min arriving later then scheduled to LAS from SFO.
Is this change enough to ask for a next day SFO LAS flights instead of the last day flight of the day? Would that work?
Would prefere to stay in SFO for the night...
Is this change enough to ask for a next day SFO LAS flights instead of the last day flight of the day? Would that work?
Would prefere to stay in SFO for the night...
You can ask and sometimes you might get a positive answer. 30 minutes is well below the policy limit (which is believed to be 2 hours) but some have been successful. But if agent declines there isn't much you can do.
Apr 9, 2016, 5:37 pm
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Schedule Change on UA partner (Asiana) Award
Hi! Brand new here, so apologies if this is an obvious question or I've posted in the wrong place. Months ago I booked an award ticket with United miles on Asiana in J (NRT>ICN>JFK). There was an almost insignificant schedule change, but I thought I might as well take advantage of it due to a shifting work schedule and a family wedding. Got the flights I wanted today, more or less, but UA still got me for the $75 change fee (only my dates changed). Was there any way out of this? I tried to push the "flights don't work for me anymore" angle, even though I really needed to be in town for a wedding and would have had to switch regardless, but the agent wasn't sympathetic. Would I have been SOL anyway because it's a partner schedule change and thus out of UA's control?
Apr 9, 2016, 7:55 pm
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You answered your own question when you noted that the change was "insignificant." UA was under no obligation to make the fee-free change.
You could theoretically have thanked the agent, not made the change, hung up and called back and hoped for an agent who would make the fee-free change. OTOH, the first agent might have noted the PNR, so maybe just a waste of time.
The issue here had nothing to do with the carrier, simply a matter of the fact that you yourself note that the change was "insignificant."
You could theoretically have thanked the agent, not made the change, hung up and called back and hoped for an agent who would make the fee-free change. OTOH, the first agent might have noted the PNR, so maybe just a waste of time.
The issue here had nothing to do with the carrier, simply a matter of the fact that you yourself note that the change was "insignificant."
Apr 10, 2016, 4:24 pm
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IAH --> FRA changed again from 772 to 788 ... no 'schedule change' alert ... just saw it by accident.
Now I thought they were going to keep 788/789s mostly out of IAH ... now they seem to be coming back!
Now I thought they were going to keep 788/789s mostly out of IAH ... now they seem to be coming back!
Apr 10, 2016, 5:53 pm
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I posted elsewhere that the weekend schedule re-load has caused my roundtrip layover at IAH to become 4+ hours, both ways. I actually don't care, especially if the Centurion Lounge opens up by then. My only question is, does this mean that now the each one-way segment is broken and may affect things like SDC?
Apr 16, 2016, 1:04 pm
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I posted elsewhere that the weekend schedule re-load has caused my roundtrip layover at IAH to become 4+ hours, both ways. I actually don't care, especially if the Centurion Lounge opens up by then. My only question is, does this mean that now the each one-way segment is broken and may affect things like SDC?
Apr 16, 2016, 5:06 pm
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Thanks. It's still a few months off, and I'll see what happens; the worst case I take the original itinerary, unless there's another change.
Apr 29, 2016, 4:34 am
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"This flight segment is waitlisted"
This statement is appearing under our seat assignments for each segment of a trip booked two months ago. I was sure these were confirmed at time of booking since I was able to select seats. Does this mean I don't have these flights booked?
Apr 29, 2016, 5:00 am
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You have a schedule change. Go to UA website to accept the change or call United if the new schedule does not work for you.
Apr 29, 2016, 8:59 am
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Thank you. The app does not tell you this. I will go online to fix this.
May 23, 2016, 3:42 pm
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Have what seems like a simple question but don't see the answer obviously in this thread or elsewhere in the forum.
Have four friends who were flying IAD-SFO-KOA on award travel (X fare). Their 6am departure flight from IAD was cancelled, so UA moved them to an 8:45am departure, with a longer layover and 7 hour later arrival time in KOA. They didn't want to miss a day at the beach and tried to call to move to a flight earlier in the day... two were able to successfully make the change. The other two were told "no award availability."
When UA makes a schedule change/flight cancellation on an award itinerary, are you limited to rebooking award flights? Is this a case of "call back and ask someone else?"
Have four friends who were flying IAD-SFO-KOA on award travel (X fare). Their 6am departure flight from IAD was cancelled, so UA moved them to an 8:45am departure, with a longer layover and 7 hour later arrival time in KOA. They didn't want to miss a day at the beach and tried to call to move to a flight earlier in the day... two were able to successfully make the change. The other two were told "no award availability."
When UA makes a schedule change/flight cancellation on an award itinerary, are you limited to rebooking award flights? Is this a case of "call back and ask someone else?"
May 23, 2016, 3:47 pm
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Call back and ask them to open up inventory to make the change. If the agent can't/won't so it, ask for a supervisor.