Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

Has UA grounded the rest of the 7M9 fleet as a precaution? FlightAware shows now UA 7M9's in service at present and even frames put into service before September 2023 appear to be grounded or have scheduled flights cancelled. The FAA put an EAD in effect that grounded the -9's until an inspection i...

Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

res77W wrote:

I'm booked on a MAX 9 next Friday, the inspections should be done by then?

-Rowen

Re: Chicago Aviation - 2024

Upon a quick look at jetBlue's offerings at ORD, I see 2-3 flights a day split between BOS & JFK. Wouldn't they be better off just surrendering their gate at T3 and going over to common use at T5? I count only 4 flights a day for Frontier. Not sure they need dedicated gates either. What will th...

Re: When will Boeing finally consider ending the 737 family

I've always wondered if automating the flight deck with an EICAS and ELC, auto start, auto packs and electrics....(items that are on the modern cockpit) were ever in the cards for the Max a/c? If they could update landing gear, why couldn't they update these? I'm sure they could have but that would...

Re: Chicago Aviation - 2024

One thing that would help AA or any preferential carrier would be voluntarily accommodate OA's or Alliance partners on their own preferential gates. This would boost their schedule departure utilization rate which is the metric used in comparison to others that hold market share. While everyone is ...

Re: Chicago Aviation - 2024

Flew in and out of ORD to EGE and each flight was out of terminal 2 in Chicago. Vail used to be a pampered flight for United. Is United putting less importance on Vail or more importance on terminal 2? Taking a look at a few random days ORD-EGE has departed from B, C and E lately. UA took over a fe...

Re: UA website down

I checked in for a flight this evening using the app with no issues. I'd try restarting the app and giving it another go.

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

It is really interesting to see how many SFO - Europe flights have been added in the past few years. UA will fly SFO - LHR x3, FRA x2, AMS, BCN, ZRH, FCO, and MUC. Compared to ORD which will have ORD - LHR x3, FRA x2, MUC, AMS, ZRH, BCN, SNN, DUB, BRU, and CDG. Only 2 more flights, with 2 of those ...

Re: Pan Am Final International Flying - Fall 1991

I find it so fascinating how DL struggled with the A310’s range, when Air Transat flew much, much denser A310’s TATL for 20+ years. Perhaps the PA/DL examples had lower MTOW’s? I understand some A310’s were ‘ET’ models - I guess Delta’s weren’t but TS’ were? Beyond 20 years worth of PIPs and MTOW i...

Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

United787 wrote:

Can anyone tell me which tail number was used on UA 1732 from BOS-ORD on 8/8/2023?

Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

bayareapilot wrote:

Any updates on Channel 9 for the MAX?

Re: San Francisco Bay Area Aviation - 2023

Porter Airlines is starting SFO-YYZ Jan. 25,2024 Full honesty, didn't see that one coming!! Finally some freaking competition on that route. With the UA-AC JV, the fares on YYZ-SFO have been absolutely insane lately. I hope it lasts and I hope AC is humbled by their insane pricing. Wasn't YYZ-SFO c...

Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

About 5-6 years ago, United was going to do the deal, then EasyJet held on to them. I'm not sure if that backtrack was at EasyJet's insistence or United's, as a change in leadership was underway at UAL. Either way, now, I can't see it happening, years later, with United's massive order book and pub...

Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

I noticed today in Flight Status that UA548 was being referred to as a 777-200ER. This seems new. Previously all Polaris equipped 772s were just called “777-200”. UA448 is being called just “777-200.” Both are GE planes with Polaris. I was under the impression all GEs were ERs. Is this wrong? I'm n...

Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

From the AA fleet thread discussing their 787 delivery schedule: ..."7 in 2024, 4 in 2025, 4 in 2026, plus 15 more in the years after 2026." Anyone have details about United's 787 deliveries scheduled in these years? UA published a chart in April of this year showing 787 deliveries: 8 202...

Re: Chicago Aviation - 2023

Wait? Those two concourses being built are going to be split between AA and UA and respective groups? Not sure about that, because UA is giving up some gates in C and all of its gates in T2 for the construction. In contrast, it appears that AA will lose some gates in G concourse, but not much in co...

Re: Airlines buy and sell services to/from one another -but why outside of alliance without need?

Another consideration in Miami could be location. This also might apply to other examples given in this thread. Are Lingus parks at Concourse E, where the Turkish Airlines lounge is. The Admirals Clubs in Miami are on Concourse D and it is quite a hike to the Are Lingus gate. Aer Lingus. God, I hat...

Re: Chicago Aviation - 2023

Can someone explain to me what the new midfield / global terminal will mean for UA at ORD? How many gates is UA expected to pick up? And are all these “net new” meaning the current B/C gates continue to operate as they are now? And finally what’s the timeline on all this? Doesn’t midfield come firs...

Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

Anyone see this, AA ramp cart slams into UA 737 at ORD: https://x.com/xjonnyc/status/1695694189068005742?s=61&t=G_TDFHhmcdcwFEUUYDYbFA Just what UA needs another plane out of service… wonder how long this one will be out for? On the fleet site it says that is 739 aircraft 3425. Why does it say ...

Re: US, China agree to Double the number of Weekly Flights

UA was not 14/5 = 2.8 times larger than DL on US-China routes pre-covid. Not even close. DL had at least 5.5 daily flights (unsure whether or not ATL-PVG was daily): SEA/DTW-PEK, SEA/DTW/LAX/ATL-PVG. UA had 9.5 (the .5 is SFO-CTU). Mea culpa I did forget that DL added flights to PVG to take advanta...

Re: US, China agree to Double the number of Weekly Flights

Allocating enough slots to UA to provide for daily service between SFO-PVG/PEK would still allow for AA and DL to offer five weekly flights each to China. Overall that would give them a larger proportion of market share than they had before the pandemic....which is clearly not shutting them out of ...

Re: US, China agree to Double the number of Weekly Flights

so restoring the status quo to you is letting United have basically all the frequency and allowing them to take all the marketshare away from DL/AA? /quote] I never said UA should have the market to themselves so please don't put words in my mouth. I said the goal right now should be to restore the...

Re: US, China agree to Double the number of Weekly Flights

The DOT's goal isn't to restore prior market share, it is to maximize public benefit - not UA's. If these were new slots/route authorities I would agree with you but these flights are simply allowing US carriers to restore pre-existing service. As those flights were cut off by the Chinese and US go...

Re: US, China agree to Double the number of Weekly Flights

It would be very surprising for UA to issue a press release like that unless they know for certain they are going to have 14 slots. One possible scenario is that China may have approved additional slots for US carriers beyond the 24 that we know of. I agree that United know's something we don't as ...

Re: US, China agree to Double the number of Weekly Flights

DL- DTW/SEA-PVG each go from 2x weekly to 4x (4 new slots) UA- SFO-PVG goes from 4x weekly to daily (3 new slots) AA- DFW-PVG goes from 4x weekly to daily (3 new slots) UA- SFO-PEK/PKX returns at 1x weekly. (1 slot) It would be very surprising for UA to issue a press release like that unless they k...

Re: UA to start daily SFO-MNL and LAX-HKG in October

bzcat wrote:

So TPE-SFO will have 4 carriers and about 2000 seats per day... crazy! It should be the #1 international destination from SFO in terms of seats by a big margin.