Travel Waiver: Winter Storm "Avery" (15-Nov-18 - 17-Nov-18)
Nov 15, 2018, 11:01 am
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Nov 15, 2018, 11:29 am
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Perhaps these major storms should be numbered instead of named? That would make the information about which storm people are talking about less open to misinterpretation. For example, when I looked at United's waiver page on a tiny screen, I initially read the current typhoon waiver for Saipan as Typhoon "Yufu".
That seemed a mean spirited name for all those who would be disrupted. No risk of such misunderstanding if it would have been identified as Typhoon 18-23, or whatever number of typhoons have blown up across the Pacific this year.
That seemed a mean spirited name for all those who would be disrupted. No risk of such misunderstanding if it would have been identified as Typhoon 18-23, or whatever number of typhoons have blown up across the Pacific this year.
Nov 15, 2018, 11:34 am
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Lands at 5am Sunday and then wait 13 hours for the 6pm to AMS, lands Monday at 9am. I guess not so bad if you plan to get a day room at a hotel and crash, or if you have friends in Chicago.
Nov 15, 2018, 12:03 pm
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The app now shows UA 961 FRA-EWR in flight, arriving 6:57pm, and a separate (canceled) EWR-BGR leg which was supposed to depart FRA at 4:30pm and arrive BGR 6:11pm. Does the canceled indicator mean they will not need to stop in BGR?
Nov 15, 2018, 3:37 pm
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United texted me last night about this. Good.
They texted me again, word-for-word identical to the first text at 3AM. Not so good.
They texted me yet again,word-for-word identical to the first text, as I was boarding. Puzzling.
Finally, they texted me about an hour and a half after my flight landed. Very puzzling.
They texted me again, word-for-word identical to the first text at 3AM. Not so good.
They texted me yet again,word-for-word identical to the first text, as I was boarding. Puzzling.
Finally, they texted me about an hour and a half after my flight landed. Very puzzling.
Nov 15, 2018, 7:36 pm
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Nov 15, 2018, 7:48 pm
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1K phone lines currently have a 20-25 minute wait before reaching a rep. At least that's what I was told when I called in. I'm just about to cross the 20 minute mark and I'm still on hold. I wonder how accurate their estimates are. I've never had to wait longer than 2 minutes for a 1K rep and that's very very rare.
Unfortunately I need to wait on hold to make the change I need to make even though it's not related to the weather waiver.
-RM
Unfortunately I need to wait on hold to make the change I need to make even though it's not related to the weather waiver.
-RM
Nov 15, 2018, 8:28 pm
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Nov 15, 2018, 8:47 pm
#28
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I'm wondering what this bodes for when we get real winter storms! EWR seems to have gotten about an inch of snow starting early afternoon and, as pointed out, all flights between BOS and EWR got canceled for the day. Snow started in BOS around 7 PM and we've gotten maybe 1.5 inches so far. It's snowing, but not terribly hard.
Nov 16, 2018, 1:23 am
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I'm wondering what this bodes for when we get real winter storms! EWR seems to have gotten about an inch of snow starting early afternoon and, as pointed out, all flights between BOS and EWR got canceled for the day. Snow started in BOS around 7 PM and we've gotten maybe 1.5 inches so far. It's snowing, but not terribly hard.
Anyway, made it out of BWI in the late afternoon/early evening, after having connected through IAH, back to LAX. There were a few folks at LAX waiting in line both in the UC as well as at Customer Service needing to figure out how to continue on in their travels given today's disruptions.
David
Nov 16, 2018, 2:37 am
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