Impacts on UA from AS 737MAX9 incident / Travel Waiver (FAA grounding of MAX9s)
Jan 6, 2024, 10:28 pm
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). . I guess no window is a feature now?
Jan 6, 2024, 10:32 pm
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Many passenger aircraft have a row with no window, not a new feature of the 7M9
Jan 6, 2024, 10:38 pm
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That is only for two days. A lot of people now want to avoid the MAX and have flights beyond these dates. It would be nice to see United allow anyone who wants to avoid the MAX to do so and change their flight without paying the fair difference beyind Jan. 8th as well.
Jan 6, 2024, 10:38 pm
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Jan 6, 2024, 10:39 pm
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Well not really, If the plug were to hit a control surface in the tail then it’s not going to end well for the whole plane…
Jan 6, 2024, 10:44 pm
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NTSB briefing in a half hour might shed some more light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGC0z8HgrTU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGC0z8HgrTU
Jan 6, 2024, 10:46 pm
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That is only for two days. A lot of people now want to avoid the MAX and have flights beyond these dates. It would be nice to see United allow anyone who wants to avoid the MAX to do so and change their flight without paying the fair difference beyind Jan. 8th as well.
Jan 6, 2024, 10:48 pm
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That is only for two days. A lot of people now want to avoid the MAX and have flights beyond these dates. It would be nice to see United allow anyone who wants to avoid the MAX to do so and change their flight without paying the fair difference beyind Jan. 8th as well.
Currently, UA does offer free changes for most non-BE and non-nonchangable tickets according to their flexible booking policy. I agree that it would be nice for UA to allow free changes to get away from MAX flights for some time.
Jan 6, 2024, 10:56 pm
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- ou can reschedule your trip and we’ll waive change fees and fare differences. But, your new flight must be a United flight departing between January 6, 2024 and January 13, 2024. Tickets must be in the same cabin and between the same cities as originally booked.
- If your new trip is after January 13, 2024, or is to a different destination, we’ll still waive any change fees but you might have to pay a fare difference depending on the flight.
- If you cancel or don’t take your trip, you can get a full refund.
Jan 6, 2024, 10:57 pm
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Checking flight aware bronze by aircraft type no United 739 max are in the air now.
some what of a pr issue if the planes are inspected and pass then there is no issue. I would fly on it. I thought past the covid days free changes are allowed on most airlines did this change.
UA used to allow free changes when the MAX initially returned to service in 2021. https://simpleflying.com/united-airl...max-rebooking/
Currently, UA does offer free changes for most non-BE and non-nonchangable tickets according to their flexible booking policy. I agree that it would be nice for UA to allow free changes to get away from MAX flights for some time.
Currently, UA does offer free changes for most non-BE and non-nonchangable tickets according to their flexible booking policy. I agree that it would be nice for UA to allow free changes to get away from MAX flights for some time.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Jan 7, 2024 at 12:08 am Reason: merged consecutive posts by same member
Jan 6, 2024, 11:03 pm
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…and hope you have a super skilled captain and crew like those under the command of Captains McCormick (AA96) and Cronin (UA811) who both landed their severely damaged planes missing cargo doors in feats that could not be replicated by anyone afterwards in a simulator. Also, when doors do blow, they usually eject more than the immediate row as food for thought about seat selection and these new anxiety-inducing plug doors. Really miraculous that no one picked that window seat and that failure happened at 12,000 ft when the decompression is bad but not necessarily as catastrophic as it would be at 30,000 ft.
Jan 6, 2024, 11:07 pm
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OP wants to leverage this to get UA to eat the fare difference on a more palatable itinerary. Change fees have been eliminated, but fare differences, of course, have not. The logic is presumably “the experts have said that this plane is safe, but I don’t believe them, but I’m also not willing to pay anything to try to switch to a plane that I believe is safe.”
Jan 6, 2024, 11:11 pm
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The door plug isn’t unique to the MAX and as others have pointed out also on the 737-900s. Also Airbus uses door plugs on the A321s.
Just feels like the manufactures are cutting costs by having one fuselage with the door plugs to provide flexibility on different configurations.
Jan 6, 2024, 11:35 pm
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