bmwe92fan

I doubt you will get to EWR tonight -- FRA > LIS for connections -- but in this case take the first flight to the EU you can -- EWR is a mess because of storms to the west of the airport.... And to me Lufthansa is better than TAP for displaced passengers -- but if you are comfortable with Trains / BlaBlaCar then getting to Lisbon is what I would choose -- FWIW -- my wife and I use BlaBla all over the EU and LOVE IT - but it's definitely not for everyone lol...

We discovered this gem of an option when in France and the trains all went on strike -- and we were on a trip from Spain to France to Italy -- we saved a ton of money and met some really interesting people along the way -- love it!

cfischer

fly to FRA and then onwards. Will give you most options. Looks like the flight cancelled at IAD anyway.

ICN1K

Thanks for all the replies. I went with UA 932 to FRA. Will arrive about 6 hours later than expected. At least I’ll get a few extra lifetime miles.

DELee

If you need to get to the travel waiver: Travel Waiver: East Coast Severe Weather (August 22, 2022)

David

johnsmith

EWR-nap 8/21&22

was listening to live ATC during my 3.5 hr tarmac fun this afternoon in EWR (never spent 10 hrs on a flight to lax before!)

captain on Ua 3043 ewr->nap announced he needed to return to gate bc of “unruly passengers” around 7pm. Looking now and that delay turned into an 11:30pm departure. Crew must have timed out, etc. nutty thing is 3043 is a recovery flight for for the 8/21 flight that got cancelled. Ouch!! You show up at 1pm on Sunday for a flight to Italy, cancelled, back Monday and then a 7hr delay.

UAFAM

In this case UA must give them hotel, right?

Lux Flyer

There is no "must" as there is no regulation dictating such a requirement in the US. UA's policies suggest a hotel should be provided when it is their fault for the overnight delay. Technically they could make the argument the weather/ATC delays led to a timeout, but usually a crew time out they will consider UA caused even if it was weather that led to the issue. That being said, the amount of disruption at EWR last night, whether there was even any reasonable hotels available at the point the flight became an overnight delay is a completely different question.

UAFAM

United Airlines Boeing 737 Had To Return To The Gate For Fuel After 6 Hour Taxi

https://simpleflying.com/united-airl...7-6-hour-taxi/

aerokitty

UA1 (SFO-SIN) scheduled for 2300 (LT) departure went CX around 1615 (LT) for MX. The dreaded message:We cancelled our trip because the only available re-route was through HND which would have shaved too much off our time in SIN. Also, the risk of another IRROPS @HND where they won't let you into the country is also notable.

Am surprised though, that they didn't have a spare aircraft, or had the means to get us off, perhaps a few hours late. Crew timeout shouldn't have been an issue and SFO is a major maintenance hub (they have all the parts there). I'm now becoming quite leery of 78x aircraft -- this is the second CX due to MX I've had resulting in at least a 24 hour delay. (Last one was where the battery was bad, they had to fly a spare in, and then charge it).

dkc192

Yeah, the UA1/2 cancellation is kinda surprising IMO. With all the PW 772s coming back online, there's been quite a bit of slack in the widebody fleet lately, so it's odd/annoying that UA couldn't/wouldn't shift some flying around to get a 789 out to SIN tonight or even tomorrow morning. Of the aircraft in the UA fleet, only the 789 can make it on SFO-SIN, but perhaps a 789 previously assigned to a rotation of SFO-LHR and beyond could have been swapped with a 772, etc.

aerokitty

Exactly, especially since the worst of the UA/SQ spat comes into play -- they would not rebook on SQ, which may have preserved the trip. If UA wants to make SIN their new gateway to SE Asia (instead of HKG), they need to do better than this.

VRFast

UA944 ORD-FRA on 9-5 just cancelled on us, "unexpected operational issue". Rebooked on LH437 ORD-MUC in G, premium economy at least so that’s great, however there goes our upgrade chances on UA....so close. Had an R fare on UA944.
Destination OSL.

tcdtcd

Can’t you apply you PPs to LH flight? Or fare class not high enough? Did you check delta toupfare to eligible booking class?

VRFast

On the phone now changing to UA flight through LHR. My daughter was not confirmed on the last flight, MUC-OSL so this is why I’m changing it (split PNR). We’ll see where we end up on the waitlist after reapplying the MUA. My wife and I are scattered around the PP cabin, but my daughter is getting the same seat as she had before at least.
Had a feeling this cx bs would happen after we split itins...

tcdtcd

Good luck!