A six-hour flight delay ruined some United Airlines passengers’ chances to celebrate the start of 2024 twice.
The Chicago-based company was promoting a “time travel” flight scheduled to depart Guam at 7:35 a.m. Jan. 1 and land in Hawaii at 6:50 p.m. Dec. 31, allowing passengers another chance to celebrate the new year.
“Time travel is real,” United Airlines wrote in a social media post. “You only live once, but you can celebrate New Year’s Eve twice!”
But the flight didn’t leave until about 1:50 p.m., and it arrived in Honolulu at 12:34 a.m. New Year’s Day — too late for an on-the-ground celebration and about 5 hours and 45 minutes later than scheduled, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware.
“Ouch, what a sad delay,” one Instagram user commented on a United Airlines post about the flight.
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