This is more of a rant than anything else, but there’s someone at 77 West Wacker Drive in Chicago that I’d like to have a talk with. In the current Tampa to Washington Dulles flightschedule, we don’t have the 9AM flight we’ve had for years, which gets in at 11:20am, just in time for the 12:20PM bank of flights to….. well, everywhere!
Instead we have a 6AM, a 2PM, and a 6PM flight. So, why is this a huge issue? The 6AM flight gets into IAD at 8:11AM. There’s an 8:30AM bank of flights to just about everywhere out of IAD, and a 12:20PM bank of flights to everywhere. The 6AM flight gets into IAD too late for the 8:30AM bank of flights, and since the maximum connection time is four hours, I can’t legally connect to any of the 12:20PM flights.
In other words, I can’t fly to basically anywhere.
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June 4th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
MatthewLAX said,
The “Lucky” schedule. UA made it this way with you in mind.
June 4th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Eric said,
Yep. They’ve finally stopped you! LOL. Have you tried booking anything? Are you getting the Catch-22 runaround?
June 4th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Gene said,
ORD, here comes lucky!?
June 4th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
FortFun said,
Random dummy booking for TPA-CMH round trip brings up UA 424/7827 [layover of 4:13]. And, for that matter,UA 143/6027, with a 5:02 layover in ORD…
But I suspect that’s not your dream destination…
June 4th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
lucky said,
@ MatthewLAX — I figured as much!
@ Eric — I have, and it’s pricing out everything separately. I’m being charged for the stopover. Gah!
@ Gene — That’s what it’s slowly starting to look like. Booo!
@ FortFun — While you can book it, you’ll see that it prices them out as a TPA-IAD and IAD-CMH ticket, and not TPA-CMH. The best way to check it is to do a dummy standard award booking, where you’ll see basically nothing can be booked.
June 4th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Kiwi Flyer said,
Ha – United finally found a way to slow down your mileage running!
June 4th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
oliver said,
First step to dropping TPA. Sorry dude, it’s been real
June 5th, 2009 at 2:25 am
bmvaughn said,
Imagine that this is because there’s no longer enough demand to fly from IAD to TPA early in the AM to position a flight.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:09 am
lucky said,
@ bmvaughn — Actually, the 9AM flight always came from IAD the night before. There was never an early morning IAD-TPA flight.
June 5th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Blandon said,
Ever try to book an evening flight to Europe from NYC through IAD? The first suggestion on the web site is a 6am flight from LGA, followed by the 6:30pm flight from IAD. Yeah, I love sitting around the Red Carpet Club for 11 hours. Not!
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