VC10er wrote:I’m about to get on a 767 to Geneva from EWR. The old BF seats I’m sure. Really wondering where those true Polaris 767’s are flying? It seems like most premium heavy TATL are 764’s?
Do true Polaris 767’s ever fly from IAD?
I was wondering myself if any destinations saw the Polaris 763's significantly more than others, so I calculated the data below. It shows the number of times a route has seen a Polaris 763 in the past 75 days and the percentage of times it appeared. The data should have minimal to no error, but I cannot guarantee it is a 100% correct. It makes it a little hard to compare when some routes only see the 763 for shorter than 75 days, but those routes are noted below and accounted for in the percentages. Over the course of the past 75 days, on average there is a 32% chance of a certain route being flown on a Polaris 767. Of coarse the percentage was lower in the beginning of the summer and is now higher, but this is just the average. I did not include ORD-IAH, IAH-ORD, ORD-LHR and LHR-ORD because previous posters have said these routes are often flown on the few first class 763s left. The routes that stick out to me with few Polaris flown 767s are EWR-FCO, ORD-AMS, ORD-CDG, CDG-ORD and IAD-GRU. On the other-hand, IAH-GRU, IAD-MAD, MAD-IAD all see the Polaris 767 abnormally high. EWR-FCO, ORD-CDG, CDG-CDG are all being flown on a 763 in August and September only and IAD-MAD and MAD-IAD only being flown on a 763 in July, so it might just be that the sample size is still too small. Both GRU routes listed previously are slightly below or above normal in seeing a Polaris 763, but I think it has something to do with aircraft often being routed IAD-GRU-IAH or IAH-GRU-IAD. Overall, it seems fairly random which routes get a Polaris 763.
IAD-AMS 27 36.0%
AMS-IAD 22 29.3%
IAD-GVA 25 33.3%
GVA-IAD 24 32.0%
IAD-BCN 28 37.3%
BCN-IAD 27 36.0%
IAD-FCO 26 34.7%
FCO-IAD 23 30.7%
IAD-MAD 13 43.3% (July only)
MAD-IAD 12 40.0% (July only)
IAD-GRU 18 24.0%
GRU-IAD 28 37.3%
IAD-HNL 18 27.7% (non-daily in September)
HNL-IAD 18 27.7% (non-daily in September)
IAD-IAH 17 37.8% (August and September only)
IAH-IAD 15 33.3% (August and September only)
EWR-AMS 6 40.0% (September only)
AMS-EWR 5 33.3% (September only)
EWR-LIS 20 33.3% (July and August only)
LIS-EWR 21 35.0% (July and August only)
EWR-MUC 25 33.3%
MUC-EWR 21 28.0%
EWR-GVA 21 28.0%
GVA-EWR 24 32.0%
EWR-LHR 19 31.7%
LHR-EWR 19 31.7% (July and August only)
EWR-VCE 26 34.7% (July and August only)
VCE-EWR 26 34.7%
EWR-FCO 9 20.0% (August and September only)
FCO-EWR 13 28.9% (August and September only)
EWR-IAH 29 38.7%
IAH-EWR 26 34.7%
IAH-GIG 28 37.3%
GIG-IAH 28 37.3%
IAH-GRU 30 40.0%
GRU-IAH 21 28.0%
IAH-LIM 25 33.3%
LIM-IAH 25 33.3%
IAH-MUC 23 30.7%
MUC-IAH 27 36.0%
IAH-SCL 23 30.7%
SCL-IAH 24 32.0%
ORD-AMS 17 22.7%
AMS-ORD 19 25.3%
ORD-BRU 4 26.7% (September only)
BRU-ORD 4 26.7% (September only)
ORD-CDG 10 22.2% (August and September only)
CDG-ORD 10 22.2% (August and September only)
ORD-FCO 22 29.3%
FCO-ORD 20 26.7%