In a post last week I wrote about a problem with United Airlines' automatic rebooking system, which when travelers were about to miss a connection, rebooked them 30 hours later. In the end, with human intervention, I got them on a same day connection and all was well. Until it wasn't — They were flying on a mileage ticket and the return was fouled up.

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