nomad420

Well apart from a 24+ hour delay he did get out of FRA and did get upgraded surprisingly. E and E+ were wide open on the flight (#927) so easy mid week flight. He even got to enjoy the Senators lounge so thanks to all again. Still have no idea as to "water pipe" issue. LOL

malgudi

UA 886 heading back to EWR due to LIM runway accident

Ocn Vw 1K

UA 120 - 25 Nov. '22 - EWR->BCN, 764. Diverted to St. John's, Newfoundland (YYT). (Mechanical inspection, per UA site.) Arrived, YYT 12:23 A.M. Flight cancelled.

UPDATE: Today, 26 Nov., UA flew another 764 EWR->YYT to pick up crew and pax on yesterday's 120. Rescue craft arrived YYT about 2:20 pm, local time. Unknown if pax/crew will be flown back to EWR or on to BCN..

fumje

UA916 AKL-SFO having a rough patch. 27-Nov cancelled. Recovery flight UA3030 run next day. 29-Nov cancelled. No recovery scheduled currently.

RobOnLI

28Nov UA 949 (LHR-SFO) delayed 3hrs for mechanical reasons (had to fly a part in). Then crew was going to time out so the flight left LHR but diverted to EWR. Not sure what happened after that but I believe based on my research that they swapped the crew only (no one allowed off the plane) and then hit another mechanical issue before flying to SFO. Immigration and customs done at SFO. Rough day for that one.

-RM

WineCountryUA

Passenger reports
United Consolidated Compensation Thread
United Consolidated Compensation Thread

jparrott

Nov28 107 (MUC-IAD on the new-config 767-400ER)--pilot announced that the left-side lavs weren't flushing "on the ground, but we think they'll work in the air." Take off, fly 2 hours, turn around, fly back. Bags weren't let off the plane, though they did organize hotels and transport for everyone. There were connections available last night to get out (even accounting for plenty of time to get the bags off), but they were rendered useless by holding the bags on the plane. Why they didn't make everyone re-claim them, I don't understand.

Now back in the lounge, booked on the same aircraft. Hope they fixed the lavs!

evanroberts

917 SFO-AKL cancelled on the 27th, which caused the knock-on cancellation of 916 AKL-SFO on the 29th. Looks like the next couple of days flights got out of SFO.

As noted in the compensation thread, it was a bit of a cluster with the rebooking, as they did not put on a recovery flight the following day. Personally, I was very happy to be sent on the 28 November SFO-MEL and have a bonus ~ 6 hours in MEL to see family. But I overheard lots of people in the line for rebooking who were not getting out of SFO until the 29th. The airport staff were graceful, and at least in the couple of hours I was in line none of the hundreds of waiting passengers got visibly mad. When you’re waiting to be rebooked at about 3am Pacific time, and many passengers were likely to have originated in further east time zones it ain’t the best moment in life.

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cycyc

Flight 892 ICN-SFO cancelled on 12/2 due to crew rest. Was rebooked on a 3000-numbered recovery flight for 12/3. Then the recovery flight was delayed 20 hours to 10AM 12/4 due to "crew rest" again, and then ultimately the flight was cancelled entirely.

Managed to get on to Flight 892 departing at 6PM on 12/4 (since 892 on 12/3 was completely booked), but it sucks to be delayed 48 hours from my original itinerary. I originally was supposed to get home on Friday and have the whole weekend to recover from jetlag, now I arrive late on Sunday and need to work the next day.

Award ticket, J. What should I expect for the compensation request? Never done it before.

docbert

UA59 (FRA-SFO) on Saturday December 3rd was canceled. I was on the same flight on the 4th, and on Saturday the seat map on my flight went from about 25% full to over 75% full. Wasn't sure why until the gate when I heard about the CX the day before.

There was a UA3049 FRA-SFO on the 4th which I'm guessing was the aircraft that was canceled the day before, which itself diverted to EWR before continuing to SFO for a 10 hour delay. Seat map isn't showing so I'm not sure if this one had passengers on it or not - there are 12 people showing as cleared upgrades to business, and 31 showing as booked in business, but 0 checked in...

Lux Flyer

UA3049 was the recovery segment for the cancelled UA59 which ran into the same mechanical problem that was supposedly fixed overnight causing a ~6 ~3 hour delayed departure from FRA (same tail was used for the recovery). Last I saw, EWR was a planned stop to recrew only due to the additional delay would have timed out the crew to go all the way to SFO. I believe the plan was for the flight to still clear customs in SFO and EWR was purely a crew swap, although I never followed up on it after it posted the EWR stop.

RobOnLI

Sounds like exactly what happened to LHR-SFO on 28Nov. Delayed many hours for a mechanical issue, departed to EWR for a crew swap and then had another 2.5 hour mechanical delay in EWR. Everyone had to stay on the plane as customs & immigration were done at SFO upon arrival.

Although in the FRA-SFO case it sounds like the plane was lightly/barely loaded. LHR-SFO was full.

-RM

djmp

UA58 1:45 pm SFO-FRA today is having a time.

Kicked off with a 1 hour delay to start boarding due to plane cleaning (even though the plane arrived 18 hours earlier).

Then we finally pushed back an hour+ late and was taxiing when there was a passenger incident in Polaris where an infant would not stay in their seat and was screaming non-stop. The crew tried to accommodate but the situation got so bad that we returned to the gate and offloaded the pax. Very angry and aggressive behavior from the parents on the way out.

Then there was another 45 minute delay to get paperwork redone, taxied out again only to get stuck in the alleyway for 30 minutes due to an Air India jet that was blocking access waiting for a gate.

Got going again, close to 5pm now, and a slow taxi out. About 15 minutes into that, the captain comes on. Plane has a flat tire, back to the gate again, this time over at F gates. Second return to gate for this flight.

New departure time of 6:30pm quickly becomes 9:30pm as the crew has timed out and then moved to 10:20pm. No idea if we’ll actually get going at all. Fingers crossed.

1k-all-the-way

So sorry for all pax in this one. Sounds exhausting

djmp

UA 58 still on the ground leaving 11:30pm now, almost 10 hours late. They’re pulling cargo bins to get passenger bags for those who bailed.