Check Your UA Itineraries for Schedule Changes and what to do after one
Mar 24, 2024 | 12:06 pm
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They will get you on the next available UA flight from SYD, they may also look for SYD-(BNE/MEL/AKL/CHC)-SFO options. If this is a paid ticket & with some persistence you can probably get them to re-route you on QF, assuming there are no seats on UA metal flights available.
UA will also pay hotels/meals as appropriate assuming the cancellation is 'controllable' (which most of them are on this route).
Apr 9, 2024 | 10:11 pm
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I don't know the answer specifically there, but what I do to guess is check next month's frequencies for each route against the frequencies of the month you're booking. Whichever route is farther away in frequencies is more likely to have the timings changed.
Apr 9, 2024 | 10:26 pm
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It may be too late for my brain to function properly (usually what happens when I open up FT in bed) but what do you mean by which route is farther away in frequencies?
Apr 9, 2024 | 10:50 pm
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An example: check MCI-ORD, see 5 nonstops per day in May, see 5 n.s. per day in December; check MCI-DEN, see 4 n.s. per day in May, see 5 n.s. per day in December — then I think MCI-DEN is more likely to be changed. If it had been 5/5 and 4/4 (respectively), then I'd start comparing time of day for each flight on the route.
Apr 9, 2024 | 11:32 pm
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Apr 10, 2024 | 6:14 am
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A more general way to put fumje's suggestion is to compare the flight schedules for the routes you're considering (in your case, MCI-ORD and MCI-DEN) for the date you're traveling vs today/this month. Whichever route has the biggest discrepancy in schedule, whether it be daily frequencies or departure times, can be inferred to have a higher chance of schedule changes for far-out travel dates.
Apr 12, 2024 | 7:54 pm
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Just wanted to double check but I suspect the answer already.
UA flight scheduled change on ticket issued by Avianca. I need to go thru Avianca to make modifications if I dont like the new flight UA rebooked? Anyway to work with UA directly?
thanks
UA flight scheduled change on ticket issued by Avianca. I need to go thru Avianca to make modifications if I dont like the new flight UA rebooked? Anyway to work with UA directly?
thanks
Apr 12, 2024 | 8:36 pm
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Avianca issued the ticket; only Avianca can modify it prior to the day of departure.
Apr 12, 2024 | 9:42 pm
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A more general way to put fumje's suggestion is to compare the flight schedules for the routes you're considering (in your case, MCI-ORD and MCI-DEN) for the date you're traveling vs today/this month. Whichever route has the biggest discrepancy in schedule, whether it be daily frequencies or departure times, can be inferred to have a higher chance of schedule changes for far-out travel dates.
Apr 29, 2024 | 8:50 am
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Does UA allow free changes for significant product changes? E.g. BOS-LAX is sometimes lie-flat, but gets replaced with a non-lie flat a lot, can I change to a routing that HAS lie-flats for free if the product gets swapped? (e.g. changing BOS-LAX-HNL that's all on lie-flats to BOS-EWR-HNL or BOS-ORD-HNL or something like that)
Apr 29, 2024 | 10:52 am
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I've managed to make a free change in these situations, but it's very much a YMMV situation. The definition of irrops in UA's CoC includes "substitution of aircraft type that provides different classes of service or different seat configurations," which you'll probably have to point an agent to. Even then, "different seat configurations" is subjective--if you go from a lie-flat 2-2 configuration to a domestic F 2-2 configuration (as I suspect happened with BOS-LAX), does that count as a different configuration?
May 1, 2024 | 11:44 am
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Does UA allow free changes for significant product changes? E.g. BOS-LAX is sometimes lie-flat, but gets replaced with a non-lie flat a lot, can I change to a routing that HAS lie-flats for free if the product gets swapped? (e.g. changing BOS-LAX-HNL that's all on lie-flats to BOS-EWR-HNL or BOS-ORD-HNL or something like that)
Yes, if a booked 752 changes to 7M9 you can call and re-route via EWR. Might take some convincing, but it is within the rules that allow for a free change.