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Travel Waiver: Northeast Severe Weather (July 25, 2022 - July 26, 2022)

Travel Waiver: Northeast Severe Weather (July 25, 2022 - July 26, 2022)

Old Jul 24, 2022, 6:48 pm
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Travel Waiver: Northeast Severe Weather (July 25, 2022 - July 26, 2022)

Airports:
  • Albany, NY (ALB)
  • Allentown, PA (ABE)
  • Baltimore, MD (BWI)
  • Boston, MA (BOS)​
  • Charlottesville, VA (CHO)
  • Harrisburg, PA (MDT)
  • Hartford, CT (BDL)
  • New York/Newark, NJ (EWR)
  • New York-Kennedy, NY (JFK)
  • New York-LaGuardia, NY (LGA)
  • Norfolk, VA (ORF)
  • Philadelphia, PA (PHL)
  • Providence, RI (PVD)
  • Richmond, VA (RIC)
  • Roanoke, VA (ROA)
  • Washington, DC - Dulles (IAD)
  • Washington-National, DC (DCA)
  • White Plains, NY (HPN)
  • Wilkes Barre/Scranton, PA (AVP)​

Original ticket must have been purchased by: July 23, 2022

Flight changes/Rebook language:
  • The change fee and any difference in fare will be waived for covered United flights, as long as travel is rescheduled in the originally ticketed cabin (any fare class) and between the same cities as originally ticketed. View your reservation and select Change Flight to search for alternate flights.
Rebooking window: July 24, 2022 - July 29, 2022

Waiver (normal folks): https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly...s.html#waiver1

Jetstream Waiver (posted): https://jetstream.united.com/#/all-travel-waiver

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Old Jul 24, 2022, 8:55 pm
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Why does EWR get a / while JFK and LGA get -'s?
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Old Jul 24, 2022, 8:57 pm
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Because EWR is not NY. The other 2 are.
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Old Jul 24, 2022, 9:20 pm
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Dulles also gets a - though
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Old Jul 24, 2022, 10:11 pm
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To hold to the convention, should be a /
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Maybe because Newark is a city, and Dulles is not (only an unincorporated area in Loudon Co)? Just grasping now!

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Old Jul 25, 2022, 9:56 am
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Originally Posted by angetenar
Why does EWR get a / while JFK and LGA get -'s?
jFK and LaGuardia are names of airports, while Newark is the location of Newark Liberty.
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Old Jul 25, 2022, 11:17 am
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Originally Posted by ed3
jFK and LaGuardia are names of airports, while Newark is the location of Newark Liberty.
And UA refuses to acknowledge that Newark is not in New York. Adding the "/" apparently (in their mind) allows them to be "New York" adjacent.

Yes, they are also not consistent with IAD either.

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Old Jul 25, 2022, 12:44 pm
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And UA refuses to acknowledge that Newark is not in New York.
Probably because for basically every airline and fare filling EWR airport is considered part of the NYC point, so it makes sense they're going to include New York in the name somewhere when it's just across the Hudson, and for all intents is as close as JFK for what most tourists/business care for NYC to be considered.
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Old Jul 25, 2022, 12:54 pm
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Originally Posted by Lux Flyer
Probably because for basically every airline and fare filling EWR airport is considered part of the NYC point
That's not true. EWR is a separate market from NYC. Airlines can certainly publish the same fares to both, but UA generally doesn't.


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so it makes sense they're going to include New York in the name somewhere when it's just across the Hudson, and for all intents is as close as JFK for what most tourists/business care for NYC to be considered.
And yet for some reason, some people feel really strongly about this, in a way that I rarely see anywhere else. Few people claim that CVG isn't Cincinnati, ORD isn't Chicago, SFO isn't San Francisco, NRT isn't Tokyo... but some people seem absolutely adamant that EWR isn't New York, despite the fact that you can see the NYC skyline from the Newark airport.

ETA: If you want ridiculous, I offer you MLB, Melbourne Orlando International Airport.
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Old Jul 25, 2022, 3:34 pm
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ORD is actually IN Chicago. Its land, formerly a Douglas airplane plant, was annexed in just after WW2. By rights, it should be suburban DuPage County.
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Old Jul 25, 2022, 3:38 pm
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And how about AZA Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport?
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Old Jul 26, 2022, 2:48 pm
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I found out that, even with the travel waiver, tickets booked by travel agents cannot be changed by United.
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Old Jul 26, 2022, 3:53 pm
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Originally Posted by wakko11
I found out that, even with the travel waiver, tickets booked by travel agents cannot be changed by United.
Yes, but TA can change your ticket based on the waiver. i.e. TA can change your flights within waiver range without extra charge. See Jetstream Waiver in Post #1.
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Old Jul 27, 2022, 8:28 am
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Originally Posted by angetenar
Dulles also gets a - though
IAD is in Fairfax county Virginia, not in DC.
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Old Jul 27, 2022, 10:17 am
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I was a little worried about this since I flew out of EWR yesterday evening but most of the delays were due to late inbound aircraft due to maintenance or crew timeouts. My 8:45 PM EWR-SFO ended up landing before the 6:40 PM flight.

Originally Posted by jsloan
ETA: If you want ridiculous, I offer you MLB, Melbourne Orlando International Airport.
Frankfurt-Hahn is my favorite example of this.
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