Polytonic

Airports:
Original ticket purchased on or before: September 7

Rebooking window: September 7 - September 15

I didn't see a thread for this yet. Usually DELee seems to post these, but it appears he is indisposed at the moment.

dinoscool3

I was playing around with this since I have a flight in this range. I found that the website would let me change to the same flights, but a higher fare code that what I currently have. If I did this any potential unseen effects? Would it actually change my fare code meaning I might jump up a bit on the upgrade list?

iapetus

It might, but I'd be surprised if it would be worth it, particularly as you'd have no way of knowing how far up the list it would get you. Maybe you're a gambler? ♠️

bwiflyer01

I've done it before (for the same reason as you) and at least in my experience, it didn't actually change the fare class. When I looked at my reservation after the update, it showed my original fare class.

cfischer

Complete meltdown at EWR today. Add that to numerous maintenance cancellations. Quite embarrassing showing from UA, some of their super geniuses diverted a ton of flights to IAD which itself had a huge line of T-storms moving in/through. Now all these aircrafts and crews have been stuck in IAD for hours. Could have asked any monkey the zoo and they have told you that�s a stupid idea.
UA needs to really re-think how they want to operate at EWR - what they currently have going is an utter embarrassment.

Repooc17

United getting blasted on social media...rightfully so.

At this point, monkey would have a better showing than this...that is even an insult to monkey.

M60_to_LGA

It seems UA is alone among the big 3 in even issuing a travel waiver, unless I'm missing something. I'm due to fly AA to LGA on Sunday, and there's nothing at all posted on their site. DL also doesn't seem to have made an announcement. Is this possibly a recognition by UA that their operations are unusually stressed and an effort to spread out the passenger load?

ty97

Perhaps, but right now LGA (overall) has more cancellations than EWR (overall), though it's not a huge difference. Regardless, this definitely is not an EWR/UA-specific issue today. (That doesn't mean UA is good at dealing with it though)



Friday 9:30pm ET

RobOnLI

I've got a flight covered by this waiver this weekend and I've got no weather waiver notification on "My trips" or when I attempt to change the flight. It's status quo for me. If I try to change the flight I'm being charged the difference in fare.

I don't actually want to change my flight right now. I'll let the weather screw this trip up for me and see how UA handles it.

-RM

Polytonic

I had the same problem, FWIW. Phone rep was able to fix it for me at no cost.

nycatl

cf,

Is that like Wile E. Coyote...Super Genius?

Whyme

I'm connecting through EWR on my way to SNN on the 13th. That isn't covered by the travel waiver, but from what I'm reading about this hurricane, maybe it should be. I'm contemplating paying extra to reroute through ORD.

dinoscool3

Doesn�t look like Lee will really do much of anything for anyone, I wouldn�t worry.

Repooc17

This waiver has nothing to do with Lee. Just a late summer pop up storm on the east coast.

Lee is also not expected to hit the east coast. It will remain in the sea based on current track.

cfischer

It's the 'how' where UA once again grotesquely failed. I had the joy of sitting at EWR for 5 hours and saw all the Shenanigans they were pulling. EWR-ZRH ... maintenance issues ... delays (colleague on the flight) and is the plane finally left the reason for the delay changed to 'weather'.. my flight to BOS. 'Crew' all the way 1h45 late, 2h45 late, 3h45 late, 4h10 late all with 'crew' as the reason. As it cancelled at 9 p.m. the reason changed to 'weather'.
To be clear ... 1 crew member was missing, Pilots and others were there waiting with us. You can't tell me the UA can't find 1 crew member to do the BOS run? With that many cancellation? Our plane was there all-day ... all the other flights cancelled because there was no plane. The pilots were really helpful and repeatedly asked to look at our apps since the crew apps didn't show what our apps showed. It was hilarious ... crew member coming in on UAXXX, we will depart at 8 p.m. ... just the flightaware was showing the flight to arrive at EWR at 10 p.m. - no joke. Showed it to the GA, but of course he tells me that ops tells him something different ... guess what ... flightaware had it right .

A good airline (DL for example) knows how to deal with irops and how to recover from them. UA has no freaking clue - many of the issues last night were homemade. Gate next to me a family of 5 with little children trying to get home - at least the GA was honest and said 'this flight has been cancelled for days in a row because UA can't find crew to operate it' and they should better start looking for alternate scenarios. Sure enough, an hour later that flight cancelled as well - crew issues.

A colleague of mine was on my flight as well and we ended up taking an Uber to BOS. Nothing a $100 tip can't fix. UA won't cover any of this, after all, it was weather