A few weeks back we flew to Boston and back. We booked our return flight about 4pm … confirmed, the whole nine yards. We were set. Then they notified us, via e-mail, that we had been pushed back to the 5:30pm flight. Kris, who handles our flights, assumed United had canceled the 4:00pm flight. Lo and behold! When we got to the airport — too early — about 3:15pm for the return, we discovered the 4pm flight was still in operation. So we began asking questions … here’s what I learned from someone who had gotten inside to discover what United had done.<\/p>\n
1. The 4pm flight is easier to book than the 5:30pm flight.
2. So, United bumps some from the 4pm flight to the 5:30 flight in order to open up seats in the more attractive flight (4:30pm) and hopes that folks re-assigned to the 5:30pm flight won’t cancel.<\/p>\n
What do you think of this procedure? Have you had this happen?<\/p>\n
By the way, we got on the 4pm flight and sat in the dead last row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A few weeks back we flew to Boston and back. We booked our return flight about 4pm … confirmed, the whole nine yards. We were set. Then they notified us, via e-mail, that we had been pushed back to the 5:30pm flight. Kris, who handles our flights, assumed United had canceled the 4:00pm flight. Lo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"yoast_head":"\n