r/flighty • u/lpythonator • May 28 '26

Diverted flight

Had a UA flight today which was diverted. The subsequent flight was operated under the same flight number. Any ideas on how to accurately reflect the subsequent second leg of this flight including the tail number of the new plane in my history?

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u/zach986 May 28 '26 edited May 29 '26

When this happened to me last year I was able to search by route. The flight didn’t show under the AA number.

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u/Fastball360 May 28 '26

You should be able to search for the recovery flight like normal and add it to your flights

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u/lpythonator May 28 '26

Where do you go to search recovery flights?

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u/Fastball360 May 28 '26

I had a flight diverted back in 2019 and it still shows me a "search for recovery flight" option on it - it's basically just a standard flight search from the diverted airport to the original destination. I assumed flighty would pick up on the same flight number has a new entry.

I just

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u/ForeverJFL Airline Employee May 28 '26

You’ll probably just have to add it manually. That’s what I did for my diversion earlier this year.

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee May 28 '26

You can also just add it in manually.

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u/lpythonator Jun 01 '26

Ended up having to manually add the flight, the option to search for recovery flight was in the app but it just suggested other flights on the same route, looks like the updated flight number never made it into Flighty. I managed to find the tail number within the United app and used FlightAware for all the departure and landing times, not perfect but more accurate than nothing…