Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22075 posts, RR: 51 Reply 1, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 5689 times:
OzarkD9S From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 4682 posts, RR: 23 Reply 2, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 5654 times:
Is UA planning on some thinner IAD-Europe flights with these?
UnitedTristar From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1242 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 5588 times:
Quoting Laxintl (Reply 1): Not new. I've mentioned this previously in a couple post.
First plane enters conversion in September.
sorry I did a search...didn't find anything.
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Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22075 posts, RR: 51 Reply 4, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 5579 times:
Quoting OzarkD9S (Reply 2): Is UA planning on some thinner IAD-Europe flights with these?
No. Planes being converted are the p.s. and Hawaii ETOPS sub fleets.
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UnitedTristar From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1242 posts, RR: 4 Reply 6, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 5559 times:
Quoting B6WNQX (Reply 5): Did they happen to say how many would be equipped?
no he just said part of the fleet
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Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22075 posts, RR: 51 Reply 9, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 5278 times:
29 total - 13 p.s. and 16 ETOPS
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FriendlySkies From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 4009 posts, RR: 6 Reply 11, posted (5 years 10 months 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 4753 times:
Quoting B6WNQX (Reply 10): Not too bad. That is what, 1/4 of the fleet?
Close to 1/3...29/97
Makes sense...the benefits stop outweighing the cost of installation as the segment length declines. Looking forward to seeing the first one!
ERAUgrad02 From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 1227 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (5 years 10 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 4479 times:
I wonder if they'll eventually do some 767's also. Or even 737's.
Flyingjeep From United States of America, joined May 2007, 18 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (5 years 10 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 4169 times:
I dont think you will see any of UA 737 fleet with winglets due to the fact that amny of those 733 and 735 are getting rather old. However it would not surprise me to see some of there 767 fleet get wing lets.
Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22075 posts, RR: 51 Reply 15, posted (5 years 10 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 4073 times:
Quoting Yyz717 (Reply 12): Has UA stated this explicitly?
Various, including aircraft range/performance from IAD.
Quoting Yyz717 (Reply 12): The success of CO with Atlantic 752's suggests that all US majors could benefit.
Ask AA. They seem to have not found success trying to run 757s to Europe.
UA's Atlantic operations focus is much more "big pipe" approach of using large equipment such as 777 and 744 and funneling high volume of traffic into a few destinations. CO uses a very different, lower volume and scattered approach.
Besides a potential DEN-LHR and maybe a single new destination in the coming year or so, I dont see UA changing things. Afterall Atlantic flying is profitable for UA the way is now structured.
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Flighty From United States of America, joined Apr 2007, 7451 posts, RR: 2 Reply 16, posted (5 years 10 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 3989 times:
Quoting Yyz717 (Reply 12): Has UA stated this explicitly? Any reasons? The success of CO with Atlantic 752's suggests that all US majors could benefit.
UA's hub at IAD is a little bit too far from Europe. They could potentially use some PS jets to go IAD-Ireland, but UA does not tend to do oddball, one-off operations like that.
Analog From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 1900 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (5 years 10 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 3917 times:
Quoting Laxintl (Reply 15):
Various, including aircraft range/performance from IAD.
How is that? Are UA's 757s that much worse than CO's? A p.s.-style 757, perhaps with better F seats, would be great on routes like IAD - UK. IAD adds less than 200nm to a flight to Europe vs. EWR.
What about the possibility of ORD to Ireland & northern UK (~3200nm: ORD-GLA, ORD-DUB, etc.)
Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22075 posts, RR: 51 Reply 18, posted (5 years 10 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 3852 times:
Quoting Analog (Reply 17): Are UA's 757s that much worse than CO's?
Yes, quite significantly. CO max take off weight are 255,000lbs, UAs 240,000lbs.
In addition add the fact that only 16 of UA's near 100 B757s are ETOPS, and fully commited to Hawaii flying.
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EA772LR From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 2836 posts, RR: 10 Reply 20, posted (5 years 10 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 3650 times:
Does anyone have the aircraft registration numbers for UA subfleet of PW2040 757's??
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Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22075 posts, RR: 51 Reply 21, posted (5 years 10 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 3616 times:
Quoting EA772LR (Reply 20): Does anyone have the aircraft registration numbers for UA subfleet of PW2040 757's??
All are 37,250 thrust PW2037s.
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Flyingjeep From United States of America, joined May 2007, 18 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (5 years 10 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 3401 times:
EA772LR From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 2836 posts, RR: 10 Reply 23, posted (5 years 10 months 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 3260 times:
Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22075 posts, RR: 51 Reply 24, posted (5 years 10 months 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 3175 times:
Quoting EA772LR (Reply 23): No they have the subfleet of 40,000 lbs. for Hawaii
Care to show me? Manuals sure do not show any PW2040.
Entire fleet is PW2037 equipped.
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26 EA772LR: I don't have manuals, sorry, but i did find these little tid bits....(not sure if the number of PW2040 frames listed below is correct, but UA definit
27 Laxintl: Feel free to pm me and I'll forward along the applicable documents that show entire UAL B757 fleet are PW2037s.
28 Tozairport: Actually Gigneil, it really is. I am looking at the UA 757/767 flight manual, an airplane that I was actually flying for them until about 8 months ag
29 EA772LR: I stand corrected. You guys undoubtedly know more about that then I do. I'm relatively new to the aviation world For future reference, how do I obtai
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