Edit: Official IAH webstie: http://www.fly2houston.com/iah/alerts/

Says 4:00pm for IAH

Phased openings starting today, trying to have full operations by this weekend at both IAH and HOU.

AggieC07 said:

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Edit: Official IAH webstie: http://www.fly2houston.com/iah/alerts/

Says 4:00pm for IAH

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This is a bit aggravating for me to hear because they cancelled my direct flight from Sao Paulo to IAH that had me landing at 5:30AM Friday. I'm now having to leave 12hrs later, connect at MIA to SAT, and drive from SAT to Houston at 11PM Friday...

Called SW about my flight that was supposed to leave tonight to LA. Rep said she is still being told they aren't having any of their flights leaving Hobby till Saturday.

They did say IAH was opening to limited domestic flights. Not sure why they are limiting to domestic.

That makes sense.

Lots of Friday flights cancelled

My Saturday am flight with United was just cancelled

We were told by United last night after they cancelled our rebooked flight leaving Friday morning that they were only flying to their hub cities until after noon on Friday.

We moved to Delta out of Austin.

My flight on Friday canceled. They put me on a flight tomorrow night. Makes no sense.

Was your direct flight changed to a hub-hub flight? They don't want to deal with much international travel until they're in better shape is my understanding, sobthey want people to clear customs somewhere else and then come to Houston.

No. I'm flying to LA for the game. Was surprised they booked for Thursday. It's direct to LA. Using the info here, I suggested hub to hub (either DEN or SFO) but was able to get direct. I do fly a ton on united which was helpful but was surprised they had a direct flight tomorrow. Must need to get the aircraft to LA for some reason was all I could figure.

I have a Wednesday morning flight that is already delayed 6.5 hours.

My Sunday 6pm flight on United to LAX was cancelled.

It's like they're just randomly selecting which flights to cancel and when. I'm personally not seeing a trend or a correlation with the cancellations being from basically every airport, just different flights.

United flight to Denver cancelled Friday

Everything fully booked out of San Antonio and Austin through Saturday apparently (United)

My flight inbound from Frankfurt is still on schedule, 5:30 landing time

That's what I figured!

Thank you!

ColinAggie said:

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It's like they're just randomly selecting which flights to cancel and when. I'm personally not seeing a trend or a correlation with the cancellations being from basically every airport, just different flights.

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Its random because that's the nature of how the have to respond to the airport closing.

there were hundreds of flights each day that were to fly into IAH. Those planes aren't just sitting at the other airport waiting to come in. so its a matter of staffing, routing, etc. to get the flights up and running again.

if they can't guarantee the flight is going to happen within certain time (I'm guessing 48-72 hours out), they are cancelling them and trying to move people. Better to do that earlier than later.

I'm on one of the only 2 direct IAH-LAX directs Friday that that hasn't been cancelled. So lucky for now, but going to start mapping out a contingency just in case.

Oddly, just got a notification from Southwest that my return flights from LAX have been cancelled on Monday but my flights out on Saturday @ 2:40 PM are still scheduled.

Anyone know why that might be before I sit on hold forever?

that1guydrew said:

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Oddly, just got a notification from Southwest that my return flights from LAX have been cancelled on Monday but my flights out on Saturday @ 2:40 PM are still scheduled.

Anyone know why that might be before I sit on hold forever?

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My Monday return flight just got cancelled as well.

213 Grove said:

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that1guydrew said:

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Oddly, just got a notification from Southwest that my return flights from LAX have been cancelled on Monday but my flights out on Saturday @ 2:40 PM are still scheduled.

Anyone know why that might be before I sit on hold forever?

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My Monday return flight just got cancelled as well.

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Using the rebook link they send me I am for some reason able to rebook the same flight that they are claiming is cancelled?

I wonder if they are bumping people that came from Houston off return flights to allow others to get home?

I talked to SWA just now. They are on-site and doing an evaluation. Will start with international flights first. She was somewhat hopeful that my Monday flight would be a go.

got me a flight back to Houston next weekend. here's hoping things are a little more normal by then.

cclearman said:

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I talked to SWA just now. They are on-site and doing an evaluation. Will start with international flights first. She was somewhat hopeful that my Monday flight would be a go.

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Monday flight into or out of Houston?

Out

IAH seems to be running smooth. I'm concerned about HOU damage and getting personnel in from that area.

We rebooked our flight now we leave out of Austin to LAX and on the return we were assured yesterday by the Southwest Rep that the LAX to Houston flight back on Monday wouldn't be cancelled so we ran with it.

We just got a notification that our monday flight back indeed just got cancelled back into Houston and there are now no remaining flights back for 3 people to Houston, Austin or San Antone.

So we may be out sadly

Just got off the phone as well. We are confirmed for the flight out on Saturday from HOU to LAX.

We rebooked coming back into AUS on Tuesday morning on Southwest flight 263 and will take a rental from there.

If you want to try to get on the same flight, we could split an SUV rental back to HOU.

that1guydrew said:

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Just got off the phone as well. We are confirmed for the flight out on Saturday from HOU to LAX.

We rebooked coming back into AUS on Tuesday morning on Southwest flight 263 and will take a rental from there.

If you want to try to get on the same flight, we could split an SUV rental back to HOU.

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Sadly your flight and all others are fully booked already or else I would hit you up on that in a heartbeat

213 Grove said:

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that1guydrew said:

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Just got off the phone as well. We are confirmed for the flight out on Saturday from HOU to LAX.

We rebooked coming back into AUS on Tuesday morning on Southwest flight 263 and will take a rental from there.

If you want to try to get on the same flight, we could split an SUV rental back to HOU.

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Sadly your flight and all others are fully booked already or else I would hit you up on that in a heartbeat

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Sorry to hear that. If things somehow dramatically change email me @ <snip>

Travel gods looked kindly upon me. Getting out of Sao Paulo via Panama City to IAH. No idea why the PTY-IAH is still good, but I'll take it instead of being stuck