New Future Flight Status Tool (presently non-operative)
Jul 25, 2019, 10:38 pm
#136
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www.cablepick.net/united is not working for me this evening (the page loads, but when I submit the form, it just goes to a blank UA form). Anyone else?
Jul 26, 2019, 10:11 am
#138
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The new style is clearly a new API, and it appears to have been designed not to give any information for flights more than a few days in the future. They have been slowly refreshing the whole website, but likely there was some intention to cut off access to future flight info. So let's hope they don't update the app API any time soon.
Jul 26, 2019, 10:14 am
#139
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UA's not going to come out and tell us if the change is because a new software/QA engineer or project manager was more diligent or if they were intentionally trying to limit access to the data.
Jul 26, 2019, 11:32 am
#140
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Code:
www.united.com/web/en-US/apps/travel/flightstatus/results.aspx? FLN=616 & FLD=6/20/2019 & FSO=SFO & FSD=ORD
In any case, now broken.
Jul 26, 2019, 12:25 pm
#141
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UA has slowly been revamping sections of their website. My guess, the changes are for what UA believes are visual improvements and for the ability to deliver to a variety of screen sizes and shapes from a single code set -- this is a common update for websites.
Jul 26, 2019, 2:44 pm
#142
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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Is cablepick.net/united down?
It doesn't seem to work any more. It brought me to the https://www.united.com/en/us/flightstatus which only allows me to search for the flights departing in the next couple days. Anyone else having the same problem?
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Jul 26, 2019 at 3:36 pm Reason: moved to exisiting thread
Jul 26, 2019, 3:13 pm
#143
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It doesn't seem to work any more. It brought me to the https://www.united.com/en/us/flightstatus which only allows me to search for the flights departing in the next couple days. Anyone else having the same problem?
Discussed in the following thread: "New future flight status tool".
Aug 12, 2019, 5:28 pm
#144
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: SAN
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Has anyone been able to figure out a solution or alternative for this?
Thanks
Thanks
Aug 12, 2019, 5:38 pm
#145
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UA changed some things with flight status, and now does a current date check to not allow the status to be seen more than 2 days in advance. That means even with the correctly formatted URL, UA.com will just forward you back to the main flight status search page if you look beyond 2 days ahead.
People have supposedly had luck on the UA app after changing the current date/time on their phone to day of/before flight, which is a potential work around (if you don’t mind all the push notifications for meetings, etc. that would surely come through for everything between current date and that date of flight). YMMV.
Aug 12, 2019, 9:44 pm
#146
Join Date: Dec 2018
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I am looking at some long itineraries to upgrade with GPU's and tried to use the go-to tool:
https://www.cablepick.net/united
To check premium cabin inventory, in those cases where UAL.com grays it out. But...
She's Dead Jim!!!!
Is this tool dead for good, or is there an alt that I missed?
https://www.cablepick.net/united
To check premium cabin inventory, in those cases where UAL.com grays it out. But...
She's Dead Jim!!!!
Is this tool dead for good, or is there an alt that I missed?
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Aug 12, 2019 at 10:24 pm Reason: moved to exisiting thread
Aug 13, 2019, 9:52 pm
#147
Join Date: Oct 2007
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AFAIK, no.
UA changed some things with flight status, and now does a current date check to not allow the status to be seen more than 2 days in advance. That means even with the correctly formatted URL, UA.com will just forward you back to the main flight status search page if you look beyond 2 days ahead.
People have supposedly had luck on the UA app after changing the current date/time on their phone to day of/before flight, which is a potential work around (if you don’t mind all the push notifications for meetings, etc. that would surely come through for everything between current date and that date of flight). YMMV.
Move used the UA app trick, but the problem is con can only do it for one or two flights at a time. Because the “past date” flight get deleted and need to add them again.
It it is a shame they changed it. Was a great tool
Aug 14, 2019, 10:23 am
#148
Join Date: Apr 2018
Posts: 572
Where can I check available seat count in first class, this website seems no longer working for future flights (+3 days): https://www.cablepick.net/united
Aug 14, 2019, 10:35 am
#149
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Where can I check available seat count in first class, this website seems no longer working for future flights (+3 days): https://www.cablepick.net/united
Aug 31, 2019, 8:10 pm
#150
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 65
there is a trick on the United app where if you set your phone’s clock to a date in the future, the app will let you query the status for a flight on or around that date. If you then subscribe to push notifications for that flight, it will stay there in flight status even when you set your clock back to the correct date.
i use this all the time to monitor seat maps and upgrades for future flights.