Weather delays at ORD [July 13, 2016] - Best way to monitor UA IRROPS?
Jul 13, 2016, 6:45 pm
#16
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Glad I was able to catch the earlier flight home from SYR to ORD today. Weather wasn't looking too bad but in the last 1 1/2 hours its not looking to good out there.
Jul 13, 2016, 7:10 pm
#18
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Rain has stopped. The sky overhead is clear...Flights seem to be boarding again. Now just thinking about the 40-50 planes ahead of mine already on the tarmac.
Jul 13, 2016, 7:59 pm
#19
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Ah, great. Just lost CMH-ORD-PDX with an upgrade on ORD-PDX. Now visiting most of the country on CMH-IAH-DEN-PDX with 2/3 legs in a middle coach seat. Joy and happiness (not).
Jul 13, 2016, 9:33 pm
#20
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Yep.... I am stranded in ROC.
Captain on the cancelled flight was great. He kept us updated the whole time and encouraged visits up to the flight deck. He was working dispatch and FAA hard but could not get us a slot.
Sorta frustrating because we had a clear path from the east, since the storm was moving west-east. I think all the other traffic in the area doomed the flight.
Rochester ground crew did the best they could with rebooking.
I was on the phone with united desk (whatever one silver gets) and she was willing to rebook me on the first delta flight of the day, (getting me home at 11am) since UA was full until 3pm. And then the line dropped.
With the forecast of thunderstorms in rochester tomorrow afternoon, i got back on hold for and got an earlier but longer connection on delta getting me to PDX at 1pm.
My luck of no cancelations at ORD finally ran out.
Captain on the cancelled flight was great. He kept us updated the whole time and encouraged visits up to the flight deck. He was working dispatch and FAA hard but could not get us a slot.
Sorta frustrating because we had a clear path from the east, since the storm was moving west-east. I think all the other traffic in the area doomed the flight.
Rochester ground crew did the best they could with rebooking.
I was on the phone with united desk (whatever one silver gets) and she was willing to rebook me on the first delta flight of the day, (getting me home at 11am) since UA was full until 3pm. And then the line dropped.
With the forecast of thunderstorms in rochester tomorrow afternoon, i got back on hold for and got an earlier but longer connection on delta getting me to PDX at 1pm.
My luck of no cancelations at ORD finally ran out.
Jul 13, 2016, 9:36 pm
#21
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Jul 14, 2016, 3:27 am
#22
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This site provides a more in depth view: http://www.fly.faa.gov/ois/
Any options?
Also ended up buying delta comfort plus because I didn't have an assigned seat and didn't want a middle seat at 5:45am.
Jul 14, 2016, 7:24 am
#23
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Jul 14, 2016, 11:28 am
#24
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http://flightaware.com/live/cancelled to keep an eye on delays and cancels for United, their regional partners, and KORD
http://flightaware.com/live/fleet/UAL/cancelled for just a list of United mainline cancels
http://flightaware.com/live/fleet/UAL/cancelled for just a list of United mainline cancels
Jul 14, 2016, 7:25 pm
#25
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If United booked you on Delta then you can contact the MilagePlus Service Center and request original routing credit. Check out this thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ng-merged.html. According to the wiki in that thread you should be able to ask for PDQ.