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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.travel
Subject: Re: United Airlines strike
Message-ID: <200@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 00:05:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: nicmad.200
Posted: Wed Jun  5 00:05:15 1985
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Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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In article <1538@orca.UUCP> jennyh@orca.UUCP (Jenny Hecker) writes:
>> > I've heard from one source that United tickets purchased
>> > at the extra low super-saver rates of the previous months
>> > are not being honored by other carriers.  Has anyone had
>> > any experience with UA during this strike??
>> > 
>
>Don't assume that your flights are cancelled without checking. My
>husband & I got caught by the strike in the middle of a vacation,
>but both of our United flights were still running, on time, and only about
>half full.  If your flight's cancelled, United will definitely honor your
>super-savers on another flight, if you can figure out a new schedule.

Chicago is not a good place to talk about flights being cancelled.  I believe
that Chicago is the headquarters of United, ie, it is the central hub of
flight operations.  Up here in Madison, 30 minute flight to Chicago, what
flights we did have were gone with the wind.  I was to leave for a Chicago/
Phoenix flight the first day of the strike.  I spent the first day of our
vacation (the morning anyway) at our ticket agent trying to find other
flights to Phoenix.  We finally did, at a cost of $304.25 more, for three
of us.  And then the flight didn't leave until the next day.  My wife had
only a week of vacation and we lost one day already.  We got to Phoenix via
American.

Now for the kicker to your statement.  While we were in Phoenix, I watched
the local newscast on Sunday night and they said that United had doubled
their flights from Phoenix.  Catch this, from ONE to TWO.  B-F-D!
Needless to say it wouldn't have done us any good.  One flight getting
in/out of Phoenix when we wanted to get there.

The bottom line is that most of the people flying were not in a situation
to be in Chicago were more planes were flying.  I saw the United ticket
counter at Chicago on the network news.  They were as happy as I was about
the whole situation.  Consider yourself one of the lucky ones.  Yes, we
were also kind of lucky, we did find other flights (the last three seats
from Chicago to Phoenix on that Saturday).

Oh, if I were to run into on the of the striking United pilots, I would
hand him a bill for $304.25.  I have no sympathy for them at all.  Anyone
trying to fuck up my vacation doesn't get any.
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