Lauried1079

Same wait time quoted. I guess we'll hold together. I appreciate the information from everyone.

drewguy

I would call later tonight and explain the situation - hold times now are very long and your request isn't urgent.

First off, your flight may get cancelled, in which case you should be able to get the points/miles back no problem.
Second, if your flight is not cancelled but you can't get to the airport, United is likely to accept that excuse and provide a refund.
Third, they have a travel waiver in place that may get extendedhas been extended to the 20th, allowing you to change your flight if you wanted to do that. The restrictions may not make that attractive to you of course.

alggag

Cancelled.

Managed to rebook to tomorrow morning without any issues but I'm still keeping an eye on the flight out IAH as I'm assuming it will be the aircraft to operate the flight back.

drewguy

Also reported in Houston Chronicle:

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...s-14451875.php

CruiserCLE

Wow - thanks for sharing. Interesting since lots of flights still show as going (albeit severely delayed) for this evening, assuming those will end up canceling unless they are going to allow select flights in/out.

zombietooth

Got rebooked thru ORD with only a couple of extra hours delay.
Good luck to everyone!

docbert

Was scheduled to fly AUS-IAH-SJC this afternoon. Changed last night to an earlier AUS-IAH to give a bit more flexibility, but in the end both flights were canceled (and the earlier AUS-IAH returned to AUS).

Thankfully got the last seat on the 6pm AUS-SFO, although even that is overbooked by 4. Complete and utter mess at check-in. Apparently around a dozen planes diverted to Austin, so the check-in line is huge while they try and sort it out.

parzivalmx

I'm flying LAX - IAH departing 12:05AM on the 21. I don't know if I can change my flight since it's technically on the 21 not the 20. I'm going all they way to BSB. I hope everything is back to normal on Saturday. Good luck everyone

mechteach

The United flight status page is utterly useless right now. My spouse was on a 4:30 pm departure from IAH that is still showing on time, ridiculously.

goalie

for those affected

mechteach

I can't believe that they are looking at keeping it closed until 1:30 pm *tomorrow*. Things are bad right now, but the flood waters are receding rapidly. I'm hoping that this is revised.

alggag

I was thinking the same thing. Once the rain actually stops or at least slows way down then flood waters usually drain out fairly quickly aside from things like underpasses and other low lying areas.

Also, for what it's worth Hobby seems to be back in business and it's a lower area and I would think the roads there are more prone to be flooded.

mechteach

Exactly! It's a crazy overreaction to keep IAH closed while HOU is open. The north of the city was hit a lot harder today, but the band moved to the south pretty early, and I saw some snapmaps around HOU where the roads were swamped. @IAH just tweeted that roads are fully open around the airport, too.

lindaiah

Maybe it isn't as simple as just waiting for the flood waters to recede. Maybe it has something to do with rolling delays and cancellations and the effects of those on availability of flight crews and ground crews and agents, etc., etc.
Maybe it just isn't as easy to overcome a mess like this as we would like it to be...

TxTraveler18

I have a flight this evening from ANC - ORD. The inbound is already late and my current scheduled layover in ORD is only 40 minutes to make the connection to IAH. Because of today's bad weather in Houston almost all flights from Chicago were canceled - so tomorrow's flights from ORD - IAH are pretty full but a couple of seats here and there.

My MileagePlus status is Platinum but I've had large success on United without having this issue up to this point. If I don't make my 6am ORD - IAH flight connection (booked in first) or United sees that my inbound isn't going to land in time - will United put me on the next available flight in any seat or will they skip flights until there is a first class seat available? Can I let them know I'm okay with just getting any available seat? Can they protect me on a later flight if I call and ask? Should there be any request for compensation if the reason my inbound (starting this chain of events) was late was because of technical issues?

Thanks in advance.