I am usually the one plagued with delays and such when I travel home, but this time, United is messing with half of my family! Part of my family (8 ppl) booked their flights for my wedding 5-6 months ago. I wanted to do a brunch on Sunday to get everyone together before they all had to leave, so that is part of the reason this flight was chosen. It leaves OC around 5:30 pm and got them into IA really late, but they were ok with it. I just got the flight change that United sent to them and they went ahead and bumped up their departing flight by over 2.5 hrs, but they are still getting to IA at the same time. So now they have 3+ hr layovers both ways, and will have to leave much earlier that day. I'm pissed and am going to be calling United. I realize there is probably not much they will do, given the it is 8 people, but it's absurd that they can jerk around customers like this! End rant...