More SYD/MEL related delays/cancellation [Merged Threads]
Nov 28, 2011, 11:09 pm
#1231
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It wasn't Easyupdate. A UA agent (person) called me at 5am!
Nov 29, 2011, 1:03 am
#1232
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I would be happy getting a call at 5am, considering where I live, I need to leave at the latest 7am to not get stuck in traffic to the airport or leave late and hope nothing happens causing me to missing my flight.
I've had the human calls too, but normally when I'm 1/2 way to the airport already, once when I was already checked in, having breakfast in the RCC
I've had the human calls too, but normally when I'm 1/2 way to the airport already, once when I was already checked in, having breakfast in the RCC
Nov 29, 2011, 7:57 am
#1233
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5am in MEL is midday in ORD.
Dec 21, 2011, 5:20 pm
#1234
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839 20th/12th returned to LAX, looks like it was delayed almost 24hours, but it is on the way.
870 22th/12th Cancelled, 839 normally becomes 870 on the return.
All dates are local.
No wonder my 870 flight tomorrow filled up rather quick!
870 22th/12th Cancelled, 839 normally becomes 870 on the return.
All dates are local.
No wonder my 870 flight tomorrow filled up rather quick!
Dec 21, 2011, 5:28 pm
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Dec 21, 2011, 5:31 pm
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Dec 21, 2011, 5:36 pm
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We fly out in a week SYD-LAX and for once the upgrades are cleared up front and we have seats together upstairs.
Hope and pray the flight is not cancelled as my last LAX flight this year was.
First I knew about that was on Flyertalk - UA did not tell me, and we ended up in a middle coach seat on Delta surrounded by screaming kids. Great.
So this year there is not the extra daily service they often add at Xmas time?
Hope and pray the flight is not cancelled as my last LAX flight this year was.
First I knew about that was on Flyertalk - UA did not tell me, and we ended up in a middle coach seat on Delta surrounded by screaming kids. Great.
So this year there is not the extra daily service they often add at Xmas time?
Dec 21, 2011, 5:58 pm
#1238
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Dec 21, 2011, 6:48 pm
#1239
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UA 747-400 MTOW 875,000lbs
I'm not sure what sort of weight restrictions the extra ~500 miles MEL over SYD cost UAL but I guess it was not insignificant.
Maybe we'll see a non-stop LAX-MEL when UAL get the new 787.
Dec 21, 2011, 7:37 pm
#1240
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Aw, shoot, my friend was supposed to be coming over on UA870 today, just heard it was cancelled! 
We're supposed to be going skiing on Friday! (Also, there's no snow at Lake Tahoe, but that's a different disappointment...)
Never mind, found out while writing this comment that they've stuck her on a QF A380 already and she won't be all that late. And she'll probably have a much better flight!
Hmm, what's the mileage earning situation under these circumstances?
We're supposed to be going skiing on Friday! (Also, there's no snow at Lake Tahoe, but that's a different disappointment...)Never mind, found out while writing this comment that they've stuck her on a QF A380 already and she won't be all that late. And she'll probably have a much better flight!
Hmm, what's the mileage earning situation under these circumstances?
Dec 21, 2011, 8:12 pm
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In coach? Certainly a much better in-flight entertainment experience. Have you friend call UA and ask for "original routing credit" which should give them the UA miles they were expecting.
Dec 21, 2011, 9:15 pm
#1242
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(Buying a cheese danish at the airport and watching it slowly go stale over a period of fourteen hours would be a better in-flight entertainment experience than a United 744.)
Dec 21, 2011, 11:09 pm
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Indeed my last flight on UA that got cancelled a few months back they put us on Delta. Buy in Y class as plane was near sold out.
so we got all Delta miles - about 7500 to USA, PLUS the Fare class bonus (50%?) and I think 100% on top of it all as we were Delta Golds or whatever due to some status match we had.
Dec 22, 2011, 2:44 am
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Should we do this, NO, but hey, if I didn't check today, I would have never known.
SYD needs to reduce the cerfew to 5am, so tired of sitting in my seat in the US being told, delayed due to landing, MEL is 24 hours, but that's for another thread.
I know there are range issues, but I wouldn't have thought an extra 439 miles would have put an issue on the non ER's, given the distance they covered in the first place.
The LAX-MEL flights were weight restricticted, but those flights were seasonal.
Dec 22, 2011, 8:26 pm
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To make it worse it sounded like some of the luggage from the "delayed" flight had been put on the on-time flight, so people were waiting around for it.
UA863 was due to land about 30 mins early, but they ended up slowing us down and we landed roughtly on time from the north - a first for me for flights from the US which normally come in from the south.