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Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

LAXdude1023 wrote:
Mainland China is also not part of the UA/ANA joint venture.

That's an interesting point - HKG is part of the JV, right?

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Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

you'd have a hard time finding anyone who prefers DFW > DAL so it's hardly a fool's errand to consider what this would do for the network I've never flown into DAL, but I did SFO-DFW what seemed like every other week for a couple years and always found DFW to be very efficient. No complaints, espec...

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Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

noquarter24 wrote:
All widebody Polaris seats are the same.

No, they aren't. The 787 seats are slightly narrower and the 767 seats are also narrower and shorter than the 777 seats, in addition to being differently laid out.

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Re: US-China Flights 2024

Yes - if I am not mistaken UA is just serving 2 daily flights: SFO-PVG - daily (UA858/857) 77W SFO-PEK - daily (UA888/889) 77W However, they are still showing the following flights resuming in March/April - That's quite an investment in fleet sitting around going nowhere in the interim. I don't exp...

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Re: 4 Feb 2024 SFO diversions

UALifer wrote:
UA 2 SIN-SFO went missed twice at SFO before going to SJC. It actually missed the approach once at SJC too before finally making it in. Eventually made it to SFO about 4 hours later.

I bet a lot of people on that flight wished they could have gotten off at SJC. The CX OAK flight too

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Re: AS1282 PDX-ONT decompression event, returned to PDX, FAA temporarily grounds 737MAX9 for inspections

Fundamentally Boeing need to move away from a QA (quality assurance) method to a QC (quality control) method. QA: systems and procedures ensure a quality product QC: everything is checked QC most certainly does not mean that everything is checked, and perfoming QA doesn't mean that QC isn't perform...

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Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

There is no competitive edge that UA has in the LAX/SFO-BOS market. Product wise, AA and B6 both offer lie flat products that are far superior to a UA 757. In the LAX-BOS market, DL uses their 75S which has Delta One. Id say UA is pretty well dead last in terms of premium product on LAX-BOS. With S...

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Re: Josh Cahill banned from QR after posting negative review

To me, this just shows the whole video blogging industry up as rather shady. Blogger expects free travel, so airline expects good review. Blogger knows good reviews for everyone equals zero eyeballs on YouTube, so tries to invent a story. Far too many conflicts of interest to get anything close to ...

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Re: United starting SFO-BCN seasonally from May 2024

Norwegian were first on this route and then IAG started Level to compete. In January 2020 I flew SFO-BCN on Norwegian for $129 and BCN-SFO for $159 on Level. Those were the days. Lately Level have been charging the same or more than the legacy airlines for 1-stop itineraries. Last September SkyTeam...

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Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

In regards to LAX-HKG, CX is still not quite back to double daily. I believe at one point pre-2019, they had four LAX-HKG flights a day and AA was operating LAX-HKG as well. Unlike the past, where United used large and inefficient 747-400s on the route, UA is using a much smaller and significantly ...

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Re: LH458 16OCT24 diverts to OAK because unable visual approaches.

Obviously no lessons learnt from the Asiana accident. What lesson was to be learnt from SFO's side? That they shouldn't allow or use visual approaches because pilots might be inadequately trained? The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the f...

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Re: Why were the former HKG and CAN closed?

Speaking of which, I think in general the Pearl River Delta could use more airports given its population (55 million). Hong Kong (7.4 million people), Guangzhou (15.3 million people), Shenzhen (12.6 million people) respectively have to be among the largest cities in the world by population that are...

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Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

Noticed N225UA (fleet #2025) flew SFO-LAS-LAX-SFO today without passenger loads showing in the UA app. Can anyone tell me the purpose of these flights? Thanks. Dave Possible sports charter? The 49ers had a preseason game at the Las Vegas Raiders today. The Niners fly out of SJC. They left on Tuesda...

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

Don't forget that LAX has a sizeable AC presence that feeds into HKG. Air Canada YVR-HKG is frequently full with affluent VFR passengers, and YYZ-HKG is not starting again because of Russia overflight issues as well. Thus, AC can feed the UA LAX-HKG service with sizeable numbers from YYC, YEG, YUL ...

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Re: UA871 returned to SFO due to Economy pax refusing to leave Business Class cabin

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united- ... enger.html

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Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

andrew1996 wrote:
Is TPE even that high yielding to warrant a 77W considering they are competing with BR and CI?

TPE has been a 77W since well before Covid...

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Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

One of the bloggers mentioned a rumor that the domestic 777 would get some kind of recliner similar to PP instead of the old business lieflats they have. I imagine that'll go with United NEXT interiors in Y. Who knows though I know I personally don't like the 2-4-2 setup of UA's domestic 777s but l...

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Re: Hong Kong Aviation Thread - 2023

The 787 does not have sufficient range, the 777 is likely uneconomic on this route. So UA decided the trip is not worthwhile, besides demand to HKG is not what it used to be, and likely will not be for some time Huh? If the 789 cannot make it, how is the 777 at all an option? Who said the 777 was a...

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Re: Hong Kong Aviation Thread - 2023

If CX manage to fly HKG > JFK, then why UA cannot do HKG > EWR only until the Russian airspace reopens? Is it also because of the load factor? The 787 does not have sufficient range, the 777 is likely uneconomic on this route. So UA decided the trip is not worthwhile, besides demand to HKG is not w...

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Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

For my opinion, look at the LH Allegris business class seat as the next iteration of the standard to meet. At minimum, the door is needed. https://www.lufthansa.com/us/en/allegris#business-class Nearly all of the new LH seats will not have a door... The door on these type of business class seats is...

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Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

https://www.lufthansa.com/us/en/allegris#business-class

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Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

I actually do like the different faux marble surface for the drink holders in F. It better matches the side table of the Polaris seat and the design features of the Polaris lounge – none of which existed when the current F seat first started rolling out. You would think they would actually match it...

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Re: Rumor: American Airlines considering flying to SIN

theVagabond wrote:
I believe UA will fly a 77W daily on SFO-HKG this summer. Not sure it's a dying city.

UA869 is already operating daily.

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Re: Rumor: American Airlines considering flying to SIN

Totally unrealistic idea: What about SJC? Its a tech heavy area, high economic area, AA probably has quite a few loyal customers due to the former focus city, no nonstop competition, etc. Hasn't it been 15+ years since SJC was a focus city for AA? Most companies flying international have long moved...

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Re: United Airlines Fleet - 2023

The current seat IMO is very well designed, and I don’t think there’s much they can improve upon, but I’m sure they’ll make some improvements. There’s no way they’ll stick with the same exact seat for nearly 20 years. Really my only complaints would be light bleed from other passengers' TVs, the re...

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Re: CommuteAir Leaked The Entire Federal No Fly List and Employee's PII

KLASM83 wrote:
Good lord, that is wild.

I am afraid that over reliance on cloud computing is getting a bit too much.

This has nothing specific to do with cloud computing.

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Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

jonahsachs wrote:

Without a dedicated Premier Access lane, and other Premier perks in C, I can imagine many 1Ks and GS members being unhappy about flying out of A.

I can't imagine there are many 1k/GS that don't have PreCheck and CLEAR.

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Re: United Airlines Network Thread - 2022

UA SFO-HKG delayed to 3/3/2023 https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221126-uamar23hkg Does UA really intend to operate 2 daily SFO-HKG rotations from day one after a 3-year hiatus? Or is the second service just a placeholder? UA has basically never stopped displaying 2x daily since the start of covid. Th...

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Re: United Airlines Fleet Thread - 2022

VC10er wrote:
can the 787 fly ALL of United’s current longest haul flights?

Doesn't the 787 already fly all of their longest flights?

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Re: Airbus reshapes A350 cabin to better accommodate 10 abreast

You are quoting the maximum inner- and outer fuselage dimensions. Remember that the 777 fuselage is at its widest over the wings. Just as the A330 and A380, the 777 tapers almost continuously from the senter towards the rear (and some towards the front). In the last few rows in the rear the taperin...

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Re: United Airlines Network Thread - 2022

UA adding second daily SIN-SFO from October 29th. Sorry if already shared, but I think this is brand new (and fantastic) news. Flights already loaded. SFO-SIN #2 is back October 29: https://www.superadrianme.com/travel/united-airlines-adds-second-daily-singapore-san-francisco-flight-from-29-october...

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Re: Two LOT 787 cracked windows in less than a week

robleroy121721 wrote:
But simae incidents with the same model in less that two weeks?

A cabin dimming layer and cockpit window are *not* similar.

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Re: United Airlines Network Thread - 2022

Back when UA retired the 747, I would have assumed that the former 747 routes would be flown with the 777-300ER. However, many former 747 routes have 777-200ER/787-9 service, which is a huge drop in capacity from a daily 747. Destinations such as HND, ICN, PVG, PEK, HKG, and LHR have no 777-300ER s...

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Re: San Francisco Bay Area Aviation Thread - 2022

UPlog wrote:
Doubt HU could fly to SJC even if they wanted to. Air service between US and China is limited to 8 weekly frequencies by each nation since 2020.

IIRC HU had occasional cargo service during the early days of COVID.

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Re: United Airlines Network Thread - 2022

○ Domestically UA is correcting a gauge imbalance. Was flying too many small planes without premium cabins compared to competitors.. Yes. It was/is embarrassing from some stations how many 145s they were running to them. Not even that, the amount of routes to key markets that had them slapping E175...

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Re: China Eastern 737-800 crashes in Guangxi, southern China

And it’s not the first time lack of assertiveness has caused a Chinese crew to have mishandled an engine failure at altitude, fail to commence a descent at the appropriate time and suffer a high rate of descent as a consequence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_006 So in my min...

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Re: United Fleet, Network, and Discussion Thread - Q4 2021

drerx7 wrote:
Lets be real here...does any u.s. carrier have a different/good domestic F hard product? Besides the transcontinental configurations at B6 and AA? I'm not overly concerned about F upgrades on any of those.

The "new" UA F seat is quite a bit better than the old one IMO.

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Re: SQ and UA sign MOU on connectivity between Singapore and the US

When SFO-HKG-SIN resumes on Tuesday, the flight numbers will be SQ7/8. When the HK protests started, did SQ fare worse on SFO-HKG than it did before the civil unrest? Ah, so looks like they kept the HKG-SIN segment as SQ001, but no longer extend it to SFO. Makes sense, but sorta saddening from a le...

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Re: United Fleet, Network, and Discussion Thread - Q2 2021

For replacing the 77W why not go for the 779? After all the 777X needs a US customer as it is the only one of the four pioneering next-gen widebodies 787, A350, A330neo, and 777X not to have a US customer and UA being the launch customer of the OG 777 it would be more fitting for UA to order the 77...

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Re: Qatar Airways CEO: “the A380 was our biggest mistake.”

ewt340 wrote:
B777-300ER is just a stretch version of a 90's technology.

Then what is the 777-300?

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Re: San Francisco Bay Area Aviation Thread - 2020

I'm not really sure why SFO wants to connect A and G airside, either, but they have plans to. I thought pre-covid, the Star Alliance was running short on space in the G gates thus facilitating the need to utilize the A gates. However, this presented challenges for those connecting to/from UA’s gate...

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Re: United Fleet, Network, & Livery Thread - 2020

UA857 wrote:
GoSharks wrote:
UA857 wrote:

Can UA brand these seats as Polaris?

Polaris is a class of service (long haul international J), not a seat.

Then can UA brand all Premium MAX 10 flights as Polaris?

All? No, not unless they are all long haul international.

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Re: United Fleet, Network, & Livery Thread - 2020

...and I don’t know how much difference the width is between the 737MAX and a 757. FWIW, the 737 and 757 have the same fuselage width. However, the 737 starts to taper to a narrower width further aft on the fuselage than the 757. This is why the overhead bins on the 737 in rows 1 and 2 won't accept...

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Re: United Fleet, Network, & Livery Thread - 2020

Should UA install Polaris and Premium Plus on the MAX 10s as seen on the 763, 77E, 77W, and 788/789/78J? The staggered configuration of the Polaris seat is too narrow for a narrowbody. It is significantly less than 3Y seats in width. Check out the video at this roughly 55s. https://www.youtube.com/...

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Re: Does United fly the 763 domestic at all?

So on the united 763, in the back left there are crew rest seats in coach with leg rests. They're only available to purchase on shorter non intl flights, but I am not aware of any flights they have with the 763 domestically. Does anyone know of any? https://media.united.com/images/Media%20Database/...

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Re: PIA A320 (flight PK8303) crashes in Karachi

Discussed ad nauseam after AF447 and MH370. In summary, we are not quite there yet. Precisely the point, with all the recent incidents, this still is not becoming a priority! All? How many [recent] incidents have there been involving the recorders not being found? Across how many flights? But this ...

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Re: Person killed by plane on runway at Austin

Nope, just tell the tower what happened. A life was lost and they had no idea at the time if he could be saved or not. Achnowledge the impact. The pictures and the audio justify that. I find it hard to believe that you would be able to feel an impact of a 100kg object hitting a 40000 kg plane, It's...

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Re: Person killed by plane on runway at Austin

They hit a man and made it sound like nothing happened??? The guy could have still been alive and died because it took so long for medical teams to arrive. With that damage, the pilots and everyone on the airplane knew they hit someone or something major. The runway needed to be shut down right the...

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Re: Person killed by plane on runway at Austin

On liveatc.net, it starts at 11:45 into the archive for Tower #1 at AUS, with DL819 (an A220 with a very clear radio) calling in and being cleared to land. WN is given taxi instructions and says "standby". WN then tells TWR that they believe there's a person on the runway. TWR tells DL819...

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Re: United Fleet, Network, & Livery Thread - 2020

UA444. You've bashed the 764 on on this thread before and promoted the more orphan, smaller, high-cycled 752PW fleet. I'm wondering if you have stock in Pratt and Whittney. The 764 was at the end of the 767 program and was built for CO/DL to replace DC10's and L-1011s. If earlier in the program und...

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