What if I miss my connection from a partner airline
Feb 14, 2019, 6:01 pm
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Wasn't much better at PEK. Took about 15 minutes to de-ice. Weather delays and runway mess had us in the air almost two hours after scheduled departure - even after we left the gate early.
That said, this was Thursday. No snow in the forecast for Beijing today (already Friday there).
That said, this was Thursday. No snow in the forecast for Beijing today (already Friday there).
Feb 14, 2019, 6:08 pm
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Thank you docbert and hirohito888
Sadly I do not fly into any of these airports except for SFO, and that was once five years ago. I did not see any jet bridges like that when I was there. I have flown into a lot of other US airports and did not see this type of jetbridge available or used. I've not even seen them used at ORD, but then I have not used Terminal 5 there in many years so they may have them for int'l arrivals there. Nor did I see them at EWR the last few times I've been there either.
Feb 14, 2019, 6:32 pm
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Sadly I do not fly into any of these airports except for SFO, and that was once five years ago. I did not see any jet bridges like that when I was there. I have flown into a lot of other US airports and did not see this type of jetbridge available or used. I've not even seen them used at ORD, but then I have not used Terminal 5 there in many years so they may have them for int'l arrivals there. Nor did I see them at EWR the last few times I've been there either.
Widebody jets, and a few* extended-fuselage narrowbody jets, have two doors forward of the wing. Most narrowbody jets only have one. You can't connect a dual jet bridge system to a 737, for example, because it would need to span the wing. (The second door is at the rear).
You will sometimes see multiple stairways connected to a narrowbody jet, allowing boarding at the front or the rear; I don't think I've ever boarded this way on United, but I know Alaska used to do it at some of its California airports, and so did Southwest.
* The 757 and the A321, the latter of which United doesn't fly.
Feb 14, 2019, 6:42 pm
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You also aren't supposed to let deicing and anti-icing fluids drain into a normal storm drain for environmental reasons and the remote deicing pad system is an easier way to collect the fluids into one spot for disposal.
Feb 14, 2019, 7:35 pm
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No need to de-ce unless they attempt to takeoff in that weather
Partner airlines are expected to pickup the pieces of a missed connection and sort it out with the ticket issuer later (assuming it was a through fare ticket and they knew you were coming)
Partner airlines are expected to pickup the pieces of a missed connection and sort it out with the ticket issuer later (assuming it was a through fare ticket and they knew you were coming)
Feb 14, 2019, 7:59 pm
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That's SFO international terminal G where every gate has 2, except for gate G91 (the one nearest to the terminal) which has 1, and G101 (the very end one) which has 3 for the A380. A few of the other gates look like they have 3, but that's just an artifact of the sat images overlaying each other and the jet bridges having been moved in the interim.
There's a few in the domestic terminal too, but less - which makes sense given that most domestic flights are narrowbodies, whilst most international are widebody.
Feb 14, 2019, 8:45 pm
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Most US airports with dual jet bridges have only a small number of them. That's because the vast majority of planes used domestically can only use one jetway.
Widebody jets, and a few* extended-fuselage narrowbody jets, have two doors forward of the wing. Most narrowbody jets only have one. You can't connect a dual jet bridge system to a 737, for example, because it would need to span the wing. (The second door is at the rear).
You will sometimes see multiple stairways connected to a narrowbody jet, allowing boarding at the front or the rear; I don't think I've ever boarded this way on United, but I know Alaska used to do it at some of its California airports, and so did Southwest.
* The 757 and the A321, the latter of which United doesn't fly.
Widebody jets, and a few* extended-fuselage narrowbody jets, have two doors forward of the wing. Most narrowbody jets only have one. You can't connect a dual jet bridge system to a 737, for example, because it would need to span the wing. (The second door is at the rear).
You will sometimes see multiple stairways connected to a narrowbody jet, allowing boarding at the front or the rear; I don't think I've ever boarded this way on United, but I know Alaska used to do it at some of its California airports, and so did Southwest.
* The 757 and the A321, the latter of which United doesn't fly.
FR always boards, and deboards, through stairs at the front and back. It's so much more efficient but not so pleasant in the rain.
Feb 14, 2019, 8:52 pm
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Deicing now.
The scheduled departure time was 70 min ago.
I think my option would be
1. UA metal PEK-EWR-ATL 11PM arrival
2. Ask OZ to put me on OZ PEK-ICN
UA metal ICN-SFO-ATL. (Red eye) 6AM next day
3. ASK OZ to put me on OZ PEK-ICN-ORD then UA ORD-ATL. Midnight arrival
The scheduled departure time was 70 min ago.
I think my option would be
1. UA metal PEK-EWR-ATL 11PM arrival
2. Ask OZ to put me on OZ PEK-ICN
UA metal ICN-SFO-ATL. (Red eye) 6AM next day
3. ASK OZ to put me on OZ PEK-ICN-ORD then UA ORD-ATL. Midnight arrival
SFO-ATL is not a fun flight... about 6 hours on an A319 from gate to gate. I would take the connection through EWR if you can swing it.
If you haven’t been to ATL in a while, there’s a newish Minute Suites in Terminal T (United’s terminal) where you can nap for a bit for pretty cheap (or free if you have priority pass).
Feb 14, 2019, 8:58 pm
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Feb 15, 2019, 12:00 am
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OZ3355 arrived 1145AM
Scheduled departure time UA850 1215PM
I did mad dash run with an OZ ground agent. Passed the transit security check.
I arrived at the gate 1203PM.
UA 850 pulled the jet bridge and started deicing.
I waved to the captain for three good minutes. No avail.
I asked the gate agent to call the captain "three passengers including one business class passenger are coming" The agent said NO.
As OZ agent told me to do, I filled the temporary entry form to China, exited, claimed my bags, went to UA ckeckin. However, the business class passenger stayed in the airport. The agent took care of the bah and handed him new boarding pass.
My final destination is ATL.
Original routing was. GMP-PEK-ORD-ATL.
No night flight IAD-ATL tonight. So NO PEK-IAD-ATL
PEK-EWR is full.
OZ agent gave me PEK-DTW-ATL on Delta. I asked PEK-SFO on UA and SFO-ATL on Delta.
At least I got bulk head isle on transpacific...
Scheduled departure time UA850 1215PM
I did mad dash run with an OZ ground agent. Passed the transit security check.
I arrived at the gate 1203PM.
UA 850 pulled the jet bridge and started deicing.
I waved to the captain for three good minutes. No avail.
I asked the gate agent to call the captain "three passengers including one business class passenger are coming" The agent said NO.
As OZ agent told me to do, I filled the temporary entry form to China, exited, claimed my bags, went to UA ckeckin. However, the business class passenger stayed in the airport. The agent took care of the bah and handed him new boarding pass.
My final destination is ATL.
Original routing was. GMP-PEK-ORD-ATL.
No night flight IAD-ATL tonight. So NO PEK-IAD-ATL
PEK-EWR is full.
OZ agent gave me PEK-DTW-ATL on Delta. I asked PEK-SFO on UA and SFO-ATL on Delta.
At least I got bulk head isle on transpacific...
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Feb 15, 2019 at 9:11 am Reason: merging consecutive posts by same member
Feb 15, 2019, 7:34 am
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My final destination is ATL.
Original routing was. GMP-PEK-ORD-ATL.
No night flight IAD-ATL tonight. So NO PEK-IAD-ATL
PEK-EWR is full.
OZ agent gave me PEK-DTW-ATL on Delta. I asked PEK-SFO on UA and SFO-ATL on Delta.
At least I got bulk head isle on transpacific...
Original routing was. GMP-PEK-ORD-ATL.
No night flight IAD-ATL tonight. So NO PEK-IAD-ATL
PEK-EWR is full.
OZ agent gave me PEK-DTW-ATL on Delta. I asked PEK-SFO on UA and SFO-ATL on Delta.
At least I got bulk head isle on transpacific...
What if the ticketing situation was reversed and it was actually an OZ ticket from the start?
Feb 15, 2019, 8:14 am
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