Question re: United Airlines and pricing for Feb.

[mc2]

Hello,
We are looking at booking flights to Orlando for February, and at the moment our best option (schedule-wise) is with United Airlines. Has anyone flown with them before, and/or does anyone know if and when they would have seat sales for February?
Thanks in advance for your time!

 

[hcortesis]

Not sure about seat sales but most times you will find that United code-shares with Air Canada, meaning that you will probably be flying on a Air Canada plane.

 

[drag n' fly]

We are flying United in December into Tampa as it is way cheaper for us. The only problem with United is because they are trying to maximize costs like everyone else, be prepared for your flight to change....more than once. Stay on top of it as they do not notify you either. Our flights are United, Skywest and United for Ted...no Air Canada in our itinerary.

I just got home from work and they changed them AGAIN! Our outgoing flight this time. They tried to put us on an alternate flight that lands at midnight in Tampa. I am trying to get on the 4:45 arrival now....grr

 

[binky1]

Sorry, but we had a nightmare trip with United last Christmas. Got stranded in Washington on the way down, ended up arriving 14 hours late which ended up being pretty good compared to the way back home..... We got stranded again in Washington, were told we couldn't get back to Ottawa for 3(!) days due to delays. Managed to get to Toronto and then took the train(!) home to Ottawa - it took us 27 hours to get home (Orlando to Ottawa).

If you get a direct flight, it should be better (here's hoping ).

Cheers,

 

[rewok]

Booked 5 months out on United for this September trip (1 stop, out of Burlington, not Canada, too much $$$), and I got only one schedule change, when they completely change the schedule to/from Burlington. In my case the difference is not big. They are not as bad as Delta as far as schedule change, they, like most other majors, review the schedule mostly once every quarter.

 

[mc2]

Thanks for the info! We're flying out of Halifax on a Friday (cruise on Saturday), so my options for a direct flight are limited (if any). United has a one-stop flight at a reasonable hour (9:30 am) which will be much better than trying to get the 6 of us (1 year old and 3 year old included) to the airport for a flight at 6:30 am. I think we'll just have to try to figure out which airline/route will be the "lesser of the evils" (ha ha!) - I don't have much faith in any of them any more!
Thanks again!

 

[MikeyNS]

Shoot. Your timing is just a smidge off for the Transat/CanJet direct flight that lands at 4:10pm on Saturday. We're heading down in March and the Saturday-Saturday direct flights they offer are nice and cheap. WestJet Tuesday-Tuesday is really inconvienient. I remember back in 05 Air Canada had a direct flight which was great as well.

We were thinking of going United through Washington, but because we were flexible the direct flight was too good to pass up!

 

[mc2]

I know - the Canjet charter would have been sweet, but even if they arrived earlier in the day on Saturday, I'm too nervous to only go down on the Saturday. I figure if we aim to be in Orlando for mid-afternoon on Friday, it will give us 24 hours of delay time to play with before we would need to be at the port - which will decrease my stress significantly when we start encountering the inevitable flight/connection delays! ;-) We live 4 1/2 hours from the airport to begin with, so the trip to Orlando alone is a bit of a trip in itself!
Definitely taking the Canjet charter on the way home - it works out perfectly!