DELee

Result: "Wing quacked"

David

kirkwoodj

Well played, Sir.

WineCountryUA

This one seems more airline related
V97.33XD Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter

DELee

Ah, but this is flyertalk (Flyertalk? FlyerTalk?)

If the unfortunate person who made it through the engine is a diehard FT, which thread(s)/forum(s) (fora) would they post to?
(United Airlines | MileagePlus will do for now but you get the idea... )

David

cv11nyc

IAD 787 pilot base will not fully open until November

N104UA

So would a UA truck stalling behind the plane count as their fault or not? What about WX and UA having to cancel a flight because the plane was flown to DEN the night before a snowstorm and now can't fly the MCO-IAD portion of DEN-MCO-IAD, is that their fault because they didn't cancel the inbound to DEN prior to the snowstorm? I find a lot of issues with your binary system.

cfischer

UA 154 ... great united.com shows 'error code 564', the app shows 'this flight does not operated today.

Flightaware/EF show

MAJ-KWA 738 cancelled due to aircraft maintenance
KWA-PNI 738 cancelled due to aircraft maintenance
PNI-TKK 738 cancelled due to aircraft maintenance
TKK-GUM 738 cancelled due to aircraft maintenance

also yesterday's

UA141 BCN-IAD 764 4 hrs late due to aircraft maintenance

inbound was 3 hours late due to aircraft maintenance

DELee

Dunno. That's the problem with using reason codes instead of a short set of text that describes what happened. What I was getting at is what most folks really want to know if United Air Lines is accepting the responsibility for the delayed/cancelled flight - or not. If they are accepting the responsibility for the delay/cancel, then there are services and vouchers that go with this. If they are not, then passengers don't get anything.

Instead you get "Delay due to Airport Conditions" (which could cover much of what you identified) and many others from UA.

Personally, I think it would be cool if the GA (or whomever enters the delay/cancel reason response) had 140 characters a la Twitter to provide a _good_ or interesting reason: e.g. Customer's dog pooped in 1st Class Lav.

Or we could go the ICD (International Classification of Diseases) route and have the W61.62XA Struck by duck, initial encounter or R46.0 Very low level of personal hygiene detailed codes as cited by fgirard and WineCountryUA ('tho to be fair, WineCountryUA referenced V97.33XD Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter).

David

fgirard

UA99 took quite the hit today.

warrenw

I don't really know how to read these, from what I gather they had to make a stop in HNL?

seenitall

While certainly not a perfect flight, I wouldn't say that arriving 2:40 late to LAX on an 8000 mile flight that had to divert to HNL is disgraceful. It actually seems like UA handled the issue pretty efficiently.

fgirard

But it seems that they are running their crews right up to the limit. Could it be that many pilots are hitting their maximum hours for the month?

seenitall

Do we know why the diversion occurred? Maybe a couple of FAs became ill on the flight from MEL.

cfischer

UA135 ZRH-EWR 764 cancelled due to aircraft maintenance

N104UA

Usually EF will say Crew Availability if it is due to the crew, they are saying Fuel Stop, the could be strong headwinds over the Pacific.

They were only 18min late out of MEL so I doubt it was crew, in addition if you look at the flight map on FR24 they planned to fly to HNL from MEL (didn't change course 1/2 way into the flight) so most likely fuel stop due to headwinds