With wildfires continuing to burn in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, United Airlines has issued a travel waiver to help affected customers. The waiver is for passengers booked on UA flights out of Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) between January 7th and 9th. United Airlines issues travel waiver amid LA wildfires The carrier's waiver will let impacted travelers reschedule their journey until January 15th.
This will be offered to travelers out of United's LAX hub, from which it serves 40 nonstop destinations, and Burbank, which UA connects to Denver and San Francisco. The waiver will allow itinerary changes with no change fee or difference in fare, provided customers book the same origin and destination and in the same cabin class - ARC/BSP travel agents are also permitted to book these changes on behalf of their customers. Importantly, this waiver does not permit passengers to rebook from an alternative point of departure.
Some flights into Burbank were forced to divert to LAX due to smoke emanating from the fires. Newsweek reported on two such flights - a United Airlines service from Denver and an American Airlines flight from Dallas/Fort Worth - landing in LAX in the night as passengers filmed the inferno below. Other flights have been impacted, too, including a Southwest flight that ended up diverting to Las Vegas, and pilots have reported increase turbulence due to the high wind speeds.
Apparently, passengers could smel.
