Flight morning 9 June 2019 from ATL ... help!

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Jun 9, 2019, 9:10 am

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bluedemon211

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Originally Posted by enviroian

Love hearing good outcomes to these stories. Kudos to the folks offering solid advice.

Enjoy your trip OP!

+1. This type of story is why I love FT. People with incredible insight wanting to help others.

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Jun 9, 2019, 9:36 am

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Better news is that OP's flight arrived at the gate at IAD 4 minutes early.

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Jun 9, 2019, 12:03 pm

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Originally Posted by Often1

Better news is that OP's flight arrived at the gate at IAD 4 minutes early.

And by now the PEK flight has departed 2 minutes early. I trust all is fine with the OP.

Jun 9, 2019, 5:40 pm

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Originally Posted by milepig

And by now the PEK flight has departed 2 minutes early. I trust all is fine with the OP.

I'm sure he'd let us know, but the United WiFi probably isn't working.

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Jun 9, 2019, 7:59 pm

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Originally Posted by Kmxu

There is an Air China flight leaving at 4:05 pm if OP misses the UA IAD-PEK flight. The leg room is slightly greater on the CA flight. Good luck.

This. I'm surprised that no one brought up this possibility yet. The CA flight will work just fine.

Jun 10, 2019, 11:33 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by xliioper

Generally speaking, international flights (except Canada) allow for layovers of up to 24 hours on a fare. Domestic and Canada flights typically only allow for layovers of up to 4 hours on a fare. If it's longer than that, it creates a fare break and you need to purchase a separate fare for each segment.

In case of IRROP and misconnections, the 24 hour rule goes out of the window. The carrier is now responsible to get you to your final destination however it can. If the passenger voluntarily requests a SDC, then the SDC fees apply. However, if the departing flight has posted a delay where the connection would be impossible (i.e., < minimum connection time or after the connecting flight departure), then it would be wise to work with origination station agent or phone agent to arrange for alternate travel route. Nonetheless, this cannot be done over the phone until the flight has posted a delay.

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Originally Posted by CruiserCLE

I think they blew it today - lots of 8+ hour delays and cancels. Know quite a few people that gave up trying to get home or couldn’t get out.

Now by no means is UA perfect, but when the forecast has showed a 100% chance of thunderstorms for a few days now, DL and others could have been a bit more proactive.

I happened to be visiting the DL NOC at the time when all these thunderstorms were happening at ATL. There were multiple station closures in the south, and numbers on the board were terrible. But it's not anything that they could have remedied since the situation is literally changing by the minute.

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