I noticed some unfortunate schedule changes impacting IAH-MCO flights. Specifically, now the latest flight departs at 1819 and arrives at 2143. That's rough for weekly commuters trying to maximize time at home on Sunday. This seems to extend through October. Somewhat curiously, the return flights (MCO-IAH) are unaffected. Sadly, this may push me to another airline for my outbound flights.

Got more changes last night including December flights. Pretty early for these adjustments. Now a 752 BOS-EWR; don't mind the lie-flat for the short hop ... hope it sticks!

Same! On the route you get at least 20 minutes to lie-flat!

Also seeing 752 show up on SFO-IAH... haven't looked at how SFO/LAX-EWR/BOS have been reshuffled but wondering where these airframes are coming from.

I had some December changes:

• SFO-IAD with a very minor timing change
• IAD-PVD changed from Mesa to Commuteair (and E175 to E145....)
• PVD-EWR moved several hours earlier
• So I switched to an early EWR-SFO, which is showing up as a B787-10!

BOS-SFO is all 752 ...

There's still one 7M9 each way most days through most of October.

And, as we've seen, whatever UA planneth, UA taketh away as well.

David

:rolleyes: as we are discussing December schedule changes my comments were obviously related to the currently posted December schedule.

SHOULD I BE WORRIED?

United changed my first flight (of 3) from an Airbus to an Embraer 175 for over the Thanksgiving weekend. I tried to change the seat assignment myself. Have called twice. Last Thursday I was told there was a "change to the seat maps" and it would sort itself out. Today I was told, again after she spoke to her supervisor, that it's too far out to assign a seat. I am a little concerned the flight may be cancelled? I already moved from a later flight to an early morning one to allow more time between the domestic and the international flight (IAD - FRA). Should I be proactive and fly to IAD the night before or am I being too paranoid. The timing (Thanksgiving weekend) is making me more concerned. Why can't they assign me a seat? All my other seats have been assigned??? I am Biz/First and she told me I am the only person in that cabin of 12 seats. Why she told me that I have no clue . . . . I have a cruise and have allowed 2 extra days BUT . . . should I just wait until August and see how things are looking then??? THANKS!

What happens when you try to assign yourself a seat?

With a change from UA to UAX you can get a free 'change' anyway. Is there a better routing? UA should be able to get you what you want and yes ... you most definitely should be able to get a seat assigned for a flight in November.

Thanks! The new flight is on "Mesa". Never heard of them. So I guess that's the hold up? It's not really United. One of the other flights on the six (three there and three back) changed by nearly 90 minutes so I guess I have a good case? I will see about flying into IAD the night before. Luckily the airport hotels around there look pretty cheap, compared to Boston and Chicago. Appreciate the advice! It did just seem kind of strange. And yes, I did try several times to change it on my own. I put myself in the seat, got the yellow little circle, and all looked good but the itinerary still had the old seat. Never did get it to 'stick'. Did not get an error message or the ones you get from trying to change your seat for LH on a UA ticket. And neither explanations from the phone reps made much sense. THANKS MUCH!

Mesa is a regional carrier that operates many flights as United Express.

The DOT requires that the operating carrier be disclosed at the time of purchase. A change from UA-operated to Mesa-operated is grounds for a refund or a reasonable re-route.

That seat map is probably messed up. It would probably work itself out at some point. The inability to select a seat is not a secret indication that UA is planning to cancel the flight; in and of itself, it's meaningless. However, if you'd rather fly a UA-operated flight the night before, it shouldn't be a problem to get that change made.

I Googled Mesa. They left American (American said they had "reliability concerns" about Mesa) and just started with United in March of this year. The seat map had changed from my original plane but perhaps wasn't accurate. If the phone rep had said "We just started flying with Mesa and I'm sure they will have their seat maps accessible by July 4th" I would have said OK. But there was too much . . . sort of making things up. Mesa is also having trouble hiring pilots (true of most airlines I guess) and had 2nd quarter losses of $35 million.

Anyway, thanks to the above replies I was able to confidently change my flight to the night before with no problem whatsoever. Thanks in particular to jsloan for the "operating carrier" comment since that helped me sound legit rather than "I don't trust those little planes!!"

I doubt this will be the last of the drama for my flights, but maybe? I almost did this Northern Lights cruise 3 years ago but getting from Nashville to Bergen seemed daunting. And Delta/KLM has some decent connections now, too, if all else fails. Thanks again. I love this forum!!! :star::star::star::star::star: