Travel Waiver: Midwest Winter Weather (February 25, 2020 - February 26, 2020)
Feb 23, 2020, 8:19 pm
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Travel Waiver: Midwest Winter Weather (February 25, 2020 - February 26, 2020)
Airports:
Rebook by February 29, 2020. Original ticket must have been purchased by: February 22, 2020.
Waiver (normal folks): https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...eptionPolicies
Waiver Parameter Code (posted): 1+
David
- Cedar Rapids, IA (CID)
- Chicago-O'Hare, IL (ORD)
- Detroit, MI (DTW)
- Flint, MI (FNT)
- Grand Rapids, MI (GRR)
- Kalamazoo, MI (AZO)
- Lansing, MI (LAN)
- Madison, WI (MSN)
- Milwaukee, WI (MKE)
- Moline, IL (MLI)
- Muskegon, MI (MKG)
- Saginaw, MI (MBS)
- South Bend, IN (SBN)
- Toronto, ON, CA (YYZ)
- Traverse City, MI (TVC)
Waiver (normal folks): https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...eptionPolicies
Waiver Parameter Code (posted): 1+
David
Feb 24, 2020, 3:12 am
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I am curious - now that they have started restricting many waivers based on when the ticket was "purchased," do they treat an SDC as a "purchase"? For example, if a passenger were to now SDC from a connection in DEN to one at ORD, could they take advantage of the Midwesr waiver even though the SDC was done post-2/22?
Feb 24, 2020, 11:13 am
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https://www.wunderground.com/forecas...=localwx_10day
It looks kind of spread out over the 25th and 26th. In my observation, UA seems pretty good at interpreting the meteorological forecasting and setting waivers for the right time periods.
Feb 24, 2020, 11:23 am
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Yeah, ORD is in danger of having a foot of very wet snow or getting ice/rain depending on just a few degrees of temperature variance. I'm supposed to be flying ORD > SFO on Wednesday afternoon. We'll see how that goes.
Feb 24, 2020, 11:55 am
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I am curious - now that they have started restricting many waivers based on when the ticket was "purchased," do they treat an SDC as a "purchase"? For example, if a passenger were to now SDC from a connection in DEN to one at ORD, could they take advantage of the Midwesr waiver even though the SDC was done post-2/22?
Not sure about SDC but I would not be surprised if there is some blocking of SDC thru waiver cities or some marking of the ticket to prevent free cancellations. just speculating
Feb 24, 2020, 12:36 pm
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Precisely.
Feb 24, 2020, 12:44 pm
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You might have misread the forecast. The Winter Storm Watch is currently for 9 AM tomorrow (Tuesday the 25th) through 6 PM Wednesday the 26th.
Feb 25, 2020, 5:03 am
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Feb 25, 2020, 8:28 am
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Feb 25, 2020, 12:44 pm
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In fairness to the easy punching bags that are weathermen, the margin of error for this storm for the Chicagoland area looks like its going to be super wide. Some south suburbs (and maybe even MDW) getting notably impacted with 20 miles away you may not see a snowflake. Kind of a rarity for a winter weather pattern relative to an "average" snow storm here. Glad ORD looks like its going to be in the clear for my own personal travel plans.
Feb 26, 2020, 7:38 am
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The purchase by was indeed done to prevent making a purchase post waiver and using it as a golden ticket to get a different routing cheaper or waiver of change / cancellation fees.
Not sure about SDC but I would not be surprised if there is some blocking of SDC thru waiver cities or some marking of the ticket to prevent free cancellations. just speculating
Not sure about SDC but I would not be surprised if there is some blocking of SDC thru waiver cities or some marking of the ticket to prevent free cancellations. just speculating