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Old Jan 14, 2018, 5:48 pm
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Consolidated delayed/cancelled international flights (2018)

Old Jun 28, 2018, 6:02 pm
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Thumbs down United NRT Ops A Complete Junkshow

Was flying SIN-NRT-DEN on Thursday 6/27 on NH and UA. I made it to NRT no problem on NH, but at least two inbound United flights diverted to HND because of wind.

Not sure why UA couldn't bring the planes from HND to NRT (I presume the crews timed out), but flights including a DEN and SFO flight were canceled. United refused to book hotels for pax, and it took 4 hours for pax to be rebooked and sent through immigration. With so many displaced passengers, there were no available hotel rooms in Narita and I ended up needing to train to Tokyo to find a hotel room.

United decided to have two flights to DEN on 7/28- the originally scheduled flight and also a second flight because of all the stranded pax. I was booked onto the second flight to Denver, scheduled to leave at 5:30 PM 15 minutes after the regularly scheduled 5:15 PM flight.

I arrived back at NRT at 2:40 PM on 6/27 and tried to check in, but the computer terminal displayed a message saying "talk to agent". After waiting in line at the premier access counter for 20 minutes, I was told that I was too late to check in for my flight, which was now leaving at 3:30. My boarding pass showed a 4:45 boarding time, my United app showed a 5:30 departure time, and United made no effort to call or email updated information to myself or anyone else on the flight saying the flight was leaving early. Ground staff seemed completely defeated. They blamed a computer error for the failure to update passengers on the change in flight time. They made no effort to even sort out which pax in the line were waiting for the now imminently departing Denver flight.

After briefly raising hell at the check-in counter, I was allowed to attempt to join the flight and I made it to the flight with a minute to spare after cutting the immigration line and running to the gate. I assume dozens of passengers missed the flight.

Perhaps the only thing United did correctly during this whole ordeal was to radio ahead to the gate and tell them not to give away my J seat to standby passengers. NRT groundstaff seem to be seriously lacking leadership. On a day with 500+ additional passengers departing NRT, only two agents were working the premier access check-in counter. How hard would it be to call in extra employees and to have signage or a person greeting passengers and figuring out who is on a flight that is departing earlier than scheduled?

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Old Jun 28, 2018, 9:29 pm
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Hmm, that’s an interesting one. I noticed in the app the makeup flight still shows a 5:15 departure and arriving almost 2 hours early LOL!

re: NRT staff, I know they are well regarded and thought of as the best outpost around, and I’ve experienced it firsthand. Maybe something changed recently?
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Old Jun 28, 2018, 11:29 pm
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Originally Posted by Imstevek
Hmm, that’s an interesting one. I noticed in the app the makeup flight still shows a 5:15 departure and arriving almost 2 hours early LOL!

re: NRT staff, I know they are well regarded and thought of as the best outpost around, and I’ve experienced it firsthand. Maybe something changed recently?
Just a guess but I suspect all their best staff were airside dealing with the aftermath of the cancellations... and yes the NRT staff still roam the terminal with signs looking for pax for departing flights and expedite connecting passengers through transit security but IIRC this is all airside as well.

anyway on an unrelated note
6/28 UA86 EWR-PVG 772 returned to gate and then cancelled due to operational difficulties
6/29 UA87 PVG-EWR 772 cancelled due to operational difficulties

6/28 UA999 EWR-BRU 772 delayed 6 hours due to aircraft maintenance
6/29 UA998 BRU-EWR 772 delayed 7 hours due to late inbound
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Old Jun 29, 2018, 5:32 pm
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TLV-SFO flight that was due to arrive at 6:00am yesterday arrived instead at 3:51pm. I guess the earlier flight was delayed to TLV was also delayed but only by 3 hours.
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Old Jun 29, 2018, 5:50 pm
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UA139 KEF-EWR 752 cancelled due to aircraft maintenance
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Old Jun 29, 2018, 5:53 pm
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6/28

UA25 EWR-SNN 2 Hrs
UA1095 EWR-LIM 2 Hrs
UA118 ORD-EDI 2 Hrs
UA924 IAD-LHR 1+ Hr
UA932 IAD-FRA 2+ Hrs
UA940 EWR-LHR 1+ Hr
UA152 ORD_DUB 1 Hr
UA847 IAH-SCL 2+ Hrs
UA102 IAH-MUC 1+ Hr
UA70 EWR - EWR-AMS 1H 50
UA138 EWR-KEF Canceled
UA47 FRA-IAH 2H 30
UA971 FCO-ORD 1H
UA17 LHR-EWR 1H
UA180 HKG-EWR Canceled
UA54 EWR-CDG 6 Hrs
UA908 AMS-ORD Canceled
UA919 LHR-IAD 1+ Hr
UA999 EWR-BRU 6H 40
UA36 EWR-EDI 2H 40
UA86 EWR-PVG Canceled
UA51 EWR-MAD 1H 40
UA161 EWR-GLA 1+ Hr
UA30 EWR-MUC 4 Hrs
UA81 EWR-MAN 2 Hrs
UA110 EWR-LHR 1H 50
UA170 EWR-VCE 1+ Hr
UA955 TLV-SFO 9H 50
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Old Jun 30, 2018, 7:54 am
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Originally Posted by worldtrav
UA25 EWR-SNN 2 Hrs
UA1095 EWR-LIM 2 Hrs
UA118 ORD-EDI 2 Hrs
UA924 IAD-LHR 1+ Hr
UA932 IAD-FRA 2+ Hrs
UA940 EWR-LHR 1+ Hr
UA152 ORD_DUB 1 Hr
UA847 IAH-SCL 2+ Hrs
UA102 IAH-MUC 1+ Hr
UA70 EWR - EWR-AMS 1H 50
UA138 EWR-KEF Canceled
UA47 FRA-IAH 2H 30
UA971 FCO-ORD 1H
UA17 LHR-EWR 1H
UA180 HKG-EWR Canceled
UA54 EWR-CDG 6 Hrs
UA908 AMS-ORD Canceled
UA919 LHR-IAD 1+ Hr
UA999 EWR-BRU 6H 40
UA36 EWR-EDI 2H 40
UA86 EWR-PVG Canceled
UA51 EWR-MAD 1H 40
UA161 EWR-GLA 1+ Hr
UA30 EWR-MUC 4 Hrs
UA81 EWR-MAN 2 Hrs
UA110 EWR-LHR 1H 50
UA170 EWR-VCE 1+ Hr
UA955 TLV-SFO 9H 50
Good times
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Old Jun 30, 2018, 9:59 am
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Weather issues at EWR?
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Old Jun 30, 2018, 1:26 pm
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Originally Posted by cesco.g
Weather issues at EWR?
The vast majority were mechanical. The PVG flight left the gate twice, came back twice and ultimately canceled.
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Old Jun 30, 2018, 7:15 pm
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Originally Posted by cfischer
UA139 KEF-EWR 752 cancelled due to aircraft maintenance
And today's UA138 EWR-KEF delayed 2.5 hours (at least) for the same thing.
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Old Jul 1, 2018, 12:12 am
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Sitting on 896 to ORD in HKG right now, started off with a 1.5 delay for Mx, then undetermined weather delay. No update on timing from the crew, but the UA app is now showing us diverting to SFO (though we haven’t left the gate yet). Not sure what the story is.
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Old Jul 1, 2018, 12:25 am
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Originally Posted by n12hx
Sitting on 896 to ORD in HKG right now, started off with a 1.5 delay for Mx, then undetermined weather delay. No update on timing from the crew, but the UA app is now showing us diverting to SFO (though we haven’t left the gate yet). Not sure what the story is.
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Old Jul 1, 2018, 12:31 am
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Originally Posted by n12hx
Sitting on 896 to ORD in HKG right now, started off with a 1.5 delay for Mx, then undetermined weather delay. No update on timing from the crew, but the UA app is now showing us diverting to SFO (though we haven’t left the gate yet). Not sure what the story is.
Means the crew is timing out for the HKG trip -- UA will use the time you are in the air to get a replacement crew in place at SFO to minimize the delay
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Old Jul 1, 2018, 6:35 am
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Sunday July 1st. Flight 836 PVG-ORD is cancelled. Parents of young friends staying with us for the week-end were supposed to be on that flight. They are now supposed to come tomorrow on Flight 2800 departing at 4:30 PM (with flight 836 departing at 3:25 PM). The parents were put in a hotel in PVG.

The plane had left the gate and returned back to it two hours and a half later. And the plan for that plane was to fly to SFO and then ORD instead of directly to ORD.

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Old Jul 3, 2018, 3:19 pm
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If my flight is delayed 1.5 hours can I cancel and get a full refund?
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