Post 4th of July United schedule (some updates are in progress)
May 29, 2020, 5:03 pm
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Changes for July are happening, my TATL in July has recently in the past hour or so posted significant schedule / aircraft changes.
Past experience suggests it will take a number of hours for all changes to post, so let's wait a bit to say "not yet" for individual cases.
Past experience suggests it will take a number of hours for all changes to post, so let's wait a bit to say "not yet" for individual cases.
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May 29, 2020, 7:37 pm
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Interesting--this change suggests that they are planning to operate the flight. 788, 789, or 781/78X?
May 29, 2020, 7:50 pm
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I'd think they'd wait until after 31May, as that's the date they're currently saying is the last day that tickets purchased pre-COVID can be changed without fees OR can be converted to travel credits. By having this (likely false) 31May deadline, they'll encourage pax to take the travel credits rather than be provide refunds once the flights are cancelled.
May 29, 2020, 7:53 pm
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I'd think they'd wait until after 31May, as that's the date they're currently saying is the last day that tickets purchased pre-COVID can be changed without fees OR can be converted to travel credits. By having this (likely false) 31May deadline, they'll encourage pax to take the travel credits rather than be provide refunds once the flights are cancelled.
May 29, 2020, 9:13 pm
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I’ve been watching flights to Alaska pretty closely. Over the past couple of weeks, I noticed that they stopped selling seats on DEN-ANC for most of the first week in July (around 29 June until 6 July all sold out). I called GS line and they said the flights were there, but showed 100% sold out, and weren’t searchable on the website.
Yesterday, both cash and award fares were released and I was able to grab two more award tickets for friends to join on 02 July. Return the following week was/is still showing a full schedule with 2x redeyes so I booked the cheapest. I figured that one will be cancelled this weekend and they will be rebooked onto the same flight as us!
Yesterday, both cash and award fares were released and I was able to grab two more award tickets for friends to join on 02 July. Return the following week was/is still showing a full schedule with 2x redeyes so I booked the cheapest. I figured that one will be cancelled this weekend and they will be rebooked onto the same flight as us!
May 30, 2020, 7:01 am
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Does anyone know when itins ticketed with UA (016 tickets) but operated by a partner will finally be updated / cancelled?
I have a US-Europe itin booked with UA but all four legs are operated by LH. The return is mid-July but the outbound is in June and UA still hasn't cancelled or rebooked it, even though LH cancelled the flights quite a while ago. The outbound isn't showing at all when I pull up the reservation on the LH website - just the return is, which is not surprising because that is not until July - and hasn't been for some time, but on the UA website the reservation is still unchanged and all looks normal.
Also the outbound itin finally has not been bookable on UA (or LH) for some time either, so at least something in UA's system knows those LH flights don't exist anymore.
I have a US-Europe itin booked with UA but all four legs are operated by LH. The return is mid-July but the outbound is in June and UA still hasn't cancelled or rebooked it, even though LH cancelled the flights quite a while ago. The outbound isn't showing at all when I pull up the reservation on the LH website - just the return is, which is not surprising because that is not until July - and hasn't been for some time, but on the UA website the reservation is still unchanged and all looks normal.
Also the outbound itin finally has not been bookable on UA (or LH) for some time either, so at least something in UA's system knows those LH flights don't exist anymore.
May 30, 2020, 7:11 am
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I’ve been watching flights to Alaska pretty closely. Over the past couple of weeks, I noticed that they stopped selling seats on DEN-ANC for most of the first week in July (around 29 June until 6 July all sold out). I called GS line and they said the flights were there, but showed 100% sold out, and weren’t searchable on the website.
Yesterday, both cash and award fares were released and I was able to grab two more award tickets for friends to join on 02 July. Return the following week was/is still showing a full schedule with 2x redeyes so I booked the cheapest. I figured that one will be cancelled this weekend and they will be rebooked onto the same flight as us!
Yesterday, both cash and award fares were released and I was able to grab two more award tickets for friends to join on 02 July. Return the following week was/is still showing a full schedule with 2x redeyes so I booked the cheapest. I figured that one will be cancelled this weekend and they will be rebooked onto the same flight as us!
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2020...ing-to-alaska/
May 30, 2020, 7:35 am
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There is a very comprehensive list of all the July cuts (up to Aug 2) and outright summer cancellations on airline route this morning
https://www.routesonline.com/news/38...as-of-29may20/
https://www.routesonline.com/news/38...as-of-29may20/