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Apr 19, 2007, 10:10 pm

#946

mahasamatman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by KathyWdrf

Even better, just plain old 8:50 PM PT (assuming we all know the date and the DST transition schedule for the year!).

Or, you could even say 8:50 PT, since we can see the post time and assume the OP didn't wait 12 hours to post.

Apr 19, 2007, 10:14 pm

#947

Fredd

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mahasamatman

Or, you could even say 8:50 PT, since we can see the post time and assume the OP didn't wait 12 hours to post.

Or you could even say "It was a dark and stormy night..." because it's the beginning of a story we've heard many times before.

Apr 19, 2007, 10:17 pm

#948

mahasamatman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Fredd

Or you could even say "It was a dark and stormy night..." because it's the beginning of a story we've heard many times before.

I like that, though it happens just as often on clear and calm nights.

Apr 19, 2007, 10:21 pm

#949

Fredd

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mahasamatman

I like that, though it happens just as often on clear and calm nights.

Poetic license, and we might as well wax poetic when it comes to a site that earlier today offered Mrs. Fredd and me (along with another poster on another thread) SEA-EZE flights with UA #s "operated by CO."

Apr 20, 2007, 12:52 am

#950

portland67

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I guess this is the reason why I can't check into my flight for tomorrow

Apr 20, 2007, 2:39 am

#951

mahasamatman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by portland67

I guess this is the reason why I can't check into my flight for tomorrow

Possibly, though there are planty of other reasons that can happen.

Apr 20, 2007, 8:43 am

#952

camachinist

Join Date: Feb 2004

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Likely an old problem, but when attempting to access the seat maps for an itinerary with a waitlisted upgrade (SWU), I get the first, non-upgradeable (EM-120) segment, then the map goes to C on the waitlisted segment, then hangs and goes to the last segment of the return (the EM-120). Pressing "Previous Flight" on that page takes me back to the first flight, skipping everything in between. It then goes back and forth between the first and last flights. Closing the seat map and starting over repeats the process. Yahoo.

Pat

Apr 27, 2007, 10:10 am

#953

Pat89339

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Shop for Flights gets this:

Message from the NSAPI plugin:
No backend server available for connection: timed out after 10 seconds or idempotent set to OFF.

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Build date/time: Aug 5 2005 12:17:51

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Change Number: 616829

Apr 27, 2007, 11:03 am

#954

goalie

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Pat89339

the bomb can't find its back end for me either and it also appears that it can't get it up either as it's also idempotent

Apr 27, 2007, 11:03 am

#955

dieselbear

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The site is back online as of 10 minutes ago.
If it gives you further difficulty, delete your United cookies. (Not the warm, onboard kind.)

Last edited by dieselbear; Apr 27, 2007 at 11:05 am Reason: clarifying cookie reference

Apr 28, 2007, 3:49 pm

#956

chitownflyer

Join Date: May 2001

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I can not use an electronic discount certificate for a round trip booking using the multi city ticketing option, and the web site states: The selected trip type is not valid for this promotion. Please revise your entry.

This was working fine a couple of weeks ago, but it now appears that the same problem from the old website has returned.

Apr 28, 2007, 4:14 pm

#957

holtju2

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Quote:

Originally Posted by chitownflyer

The electronic certs have always been more pain to use than they are worth.

Apr 29, 2007, 11:08 pm

#958

hopel

Join Date: Oct 2005

Location: the great Northeast

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Can't see seatmaps

.bomb is showing my seat number, but no seat map--it's been like this all day. have tried logging off and on again, clearing cache, and so on--
anyone else having this experience? any recommendations?
thanks!

Apr 30, 2007, 11:43 am

#959

rjque

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I've been trying to book an SFO-BOS trip for about an hour now but United.com keeps hanging or timing out at various points in the reservation process. I'm so sick of having to deal with this terrible search engine that I'm thinking of just getting a status comp back to AS, booking on NW and being done with it.

Edited to add: I just called United.com tech support to try and fix this issue. Big surprise, I got a busy signal.