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CUTOVER

Can United Airlines fix itself?

August 14, 2012

It’s hard to find anyone who likes the new United Airlines.

Even at United Airlines.
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Denied boarding because I didn’t pay a change fee

July 19, 2012

Always read to the end. The very end.

That’s my takeaway from today’s failed case, which involves a woman who was denied boarding on a United Airlines flight because she hadn’t paid a mysterious fee.
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Could United Airlines’ chaotic computer “cutover” have been avoided?

April 29, 2012

At United Airlines, they called it the “cutover.” It was the final and most difficult piece of the puzzle in the merger with Continental Airlines, and it involved combining two complex passenger reservations systems.

But some United passengers referred to what happened in March as something else: chaos.
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