JimInOhio

Yesterday (4/13)
UA90 EWR-TLV
Departed 10:50 PM
Diverted back to EWR, arrival 12:49 AM

Continuation left EWR today (4/14) at 3:40 PM

bmwe92fan

Well, unfortunately contributing to this thread -- which used to be more popular and improved duting COVID - but now that travel is resuming so are UA crazy delays....

Flying to BAH via FRA today and of course UA960 is delayed because for 6 hours no one at UA could figure out how to get the plane from terminal B to C for boarding -- that's the explanation from the GA for flight after I arrived at gate to board and no plane.... Glad to see everything is getting back to normal at UA and glad I booked a long connection in FRA because, well, UA is UA... Can you imagine if UA had to live by EU rules?

Clearly there is something more wrong with a plane that arrived at 1pm and has been "cleaned" -- but can't find it's way across the tarmac to our gate -- wonder what they aren't telling us.... The old UA seems to be returning.....

ETA -- Called GS number they told me it's being towed to gate finally -- except it's not lol since I'm at the gate -- I guess things are back to normal for UA....

ETA2 - now on plane - no PDB - leaving two hours late I’m betting half the plane miss-connects - still have no idea for real reason we are delayed as they are still Loading baggage….

malgudi

Trying to help a friend who is on that flight, looks like many of the toilets were not functioning!

UA has been helpful with vouchers/snack boxes, but the ETA is a moving target (has been changing by 30 mins every 30 mins from what I hear)

Not seeing a lot of good alternate options, other than flights later on Friday.

Any suggestions?

CApreppie

UA23 appears to have been cancelled. It did not sound like your friend got on UA317 which took off 52 minutes late at 11:02PM ET and is in the air. As you saw, does not look to be good options other than taking the first evening flight tomorrow to Dublin and losing a day.

malgudi

Just saw the update re: cancellation.

Will UA pay for hotel/taxi for a no status traveler (she's not from the area, was connecting in EWR)

CApreppie

Since it was a mechanical, it would be United's fault as opposed to weather. They should provide a near airport hotel that has a shuttle and meal vouchers. The small upside, she has a free day in NYC if she wants to go explore.

In the future, keep track of other flight options that you might hop on if your original flight has issues like this. Always helps to not have checked bags though.

Let us know what happens to your friend. Good luck to her.

malgudi

UA offered a hotel + some $ for food.

She was also able to visit NYC.

Agreed, good to have info ready. But I didn't know flight details etc until I got a panicked text asking for help

It's also not clear why UA waited for everyone to board before realizing the toilets were not working!

bmwe92fan

I would bet that they were working on it and thought the issues could be resolved -- so they boarded with that assumption and it didn't work out...

JimInOhio

My son and d-I-l were flying from CUN to CLE yesterday. Their outbound (UA 1051) was going to be an hour late (turned out to be closer to two hours late) due to crew timeout at EWR. So, they switched over to an ORD departure mid-afternoon (UA 1667). That had a minor mechanical delay which caused a 43 minutes late arrival at ORD. I was on the phone with the 1K line who said they should have enough time to make the connection and, indeed, they made it through immigration quickly. However, at the post-customs bag drop, they were told (paraphrasing) "Sorry, you're too late for us to accept your luggage and since this is the last flight of the day, we won't take your luggage until tomorrow. Therefore, we're taking you off of tonight's flight, despite having time to make it, and rebooking you for tomorrow afternoon." In the process, they lost their F seats and were both moved to E- middles. So much for the axiom that your bags have a better chance of making a connection than you do.

To add insult, their intended flight left late anyway because of ConnectionSaver.

Good Leads the Way

worldtrav

UA90 EWR-TLV 26 May 16 hours late
UA170 EWR-VCE 27 May 4 hrs late
UA64 EWR-LIS 27 May 6 hours late
UA819 IAH-EZE 27 May 13 hours late
UA926 SFO-LHR 27 May Canceled
UA62 IAH-GRU 27 May 13 hours late
UA121 BCN-EWR 28 May Canceled
UA967 BER-EWR 28 May Canceled
UA122 IAD-LHR 28 May 9 hours delay
UA271 BGO-EWR 28 May Canceled

rizrizriz

UA 926

Your flight is canceled because we needed to take the plane out of service to address a technical issue. Your safety is our priority and we're sorry for the inconvenience.

docbert

There is a UA3042 running today SFO-FRA at 2pm which is presumable the rescheduled flight (departs 5 minutes after UA58 which is the other daily SFO-FRA). Seat map is pretty much 100% full.

enviroian

Flight Status Depart Arrive Location Date Reliability Location Date Scheduled: 05/27/22 7:25 PM Estimated: 05/28/22 2:00 PM Actual:
Scheduled: 05/28/22 3:15 PM Estimated: 05/29/22 9:20 AM Actual:
UA 926 Canceled SFO
Term: INTL
Gate: G4
NA / NA FRA
Term: 1
Scheduled: 05/27/22 7:25 PM Estimated: 05/27/22 9:23 PM Actual: 05/27/22 9:23 PM Scheduled: 05/28/22 3:15 PM Estimated: 05/27/22 10:14 PM Actual: 05/27/22 10:14 PM UA 926 Diverted to SFO SFO
Term: INTL
Gate: G3
NA / NA FRA
Term: INTL
Gate: G4
Comments:
0926/27MAY
N SFO/LX
F FRA/ETA 920A L18.05

SKED SFO ORIG 725P GTD G3 SHIP 3967
FRA 315P TERM 1 GTA ****

WineCountryUA

Bad days at ewr, Travel Waiver: Northeast Winter Weather 27-28 May 2022

High cancellation / delays for all carriers in the region especially on the 27th
LGA, EWR and DCA over 50% cancelled or delays, BWI just short of 50%, JFK & IAD just high 30s%

worldtrav

None of those are weather cancellations/delays.