In my (dated) experience with united, they have a fanstasy-land flight schedule they sell tickets for, then cancel flights that aren’t full “due to weather”, and rebook you on an inferior flight.
This way, they never have to pay people when they get bumped for overbooking.
Anyway, I haven’t done business with them for a decade for this exact reason. Maybe it’s different now.
I have over a million miles on United and flew them almost exclusively for over a decade with dozens of flights a year at peak. Not my experience FWIW.
Re:Crossing the USA by Train
by thehappypm on Monday October 28, 2024 @04:39PM
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I hate flying United, but this is not a real thing.
Re:Crossing the USA by Train
by mixmastamyk on Monday October 28, 2024 @11:23AM
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Nope, was gorgeous at the destination (Houston) too. We sat at the departure gate for an hour, that was the reason.
Then the #%*$&@! at the connection gate was happy to close the door in my face as I ran to it. Knew I was coming and didn’t care.
They could have said mechanical but didn’t. Leads one to believe it was a canned BS response.
That's irrelevant: the weather was probably bad somewhere else, and that caused cascading delays that affected your flight.