N104UA From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 889 posts, RR: 0 Posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 12079 times:
United just rolled out a 744 in STAR colours does anybody have pics or know the tail number. on Sunday it flew UA895 ORD-HKG, according to UAL and does anyone know that if it was just painted or got a reconfig
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Amwest2United From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 378 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 12046 times:
First B747 Sporting Star Alliance Livery
Posted March 24, 2009
Our first B747 to wear Star Alliance colors (joining one B767 and one B777) left the paint shop this weekend, and made its first revenue flight since repainting, as UA895 from ORD to HKG on Sunday.
As for our United livery, we have repainted 181 of the 362 airplanes that will comprise our fleet once the B737 retirement program is completed.
That includes 42 of 56 A320s that were Ted aircraft, with the remaining planes scheduled to be completed this summer, says Steve Hastings, manager-Aircraft Appearance.
Nineteen B747s have been repainted in the new livery, with the remaining seven B747s to be completed by September.
We continue to closely monitor and, when necessary, take steps to refinish the exteriors of our fleet, Steve says. Line Maintenance, Airframe Maintenance and our vendors are working together to improve the appearance of our planes
Quoting N104UA (Thread starter): does anyone know that if it was just painted or got a reconfig
It is now Aircraft number 8421, it is in new config. 81 = old config, 84 = new config
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TonyBurr From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 982 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 11992 times:
Just a paint job, or did they replace F and C with the new seats?
ANITIX87 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 3233 posts, RR: 14 Reply 4, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 11912 times:
I thought UA had many, many more aircraft in Star colors than one 777, a 767, and now a 747. I thought members were required to have a certain percentage of their fleet in the Star livery, and as a founding member, wouldn't UA have a lot? And I guess I've been imagining all these years that I've seen photos of UA 747s in Star colors....
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N104UA From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 889 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 11885 times:
Quoting ANITIX87 (Reply 4): I thought UA had many, many more aircraft in Star colors than one 777, a 767, and now a 747. I thought members were required to have a certain percentage of their fleet in the Star livery, and as a founding member, wouldn't UA have a lot? And I guess I've been imagining all these years that I've seen photos of UA 747s in Star colors....
I believe that UA has 2 772 in STAR colours
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Rj777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 1471 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 11799 times:
do these planes still have the STAR tail? or the airline's tail?
BN747 From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 5287 posts, RR: 52 Reply 7, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 11769 times:
If any UA peeps can tell me when this baby is doing a LAX run (NRT-LAX or SYD-LAX) I'd appreciate it much! I can always get word once it's on the ground (and make it to LAX for static and take-off shots) but it's the arrivals that's tough to get.
Thanks again,
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Je89_w From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 2327 posts, RR: 10 Reply 8, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 11769 times:
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Quoting N104UA (Reply 5): I believe that UA has 2 772 in STAR colours
Nope, just N218UA.
Love B747s with the Star Alliance livery. Too bad Lufthansa's D-ABTH is now in the normal livery.
Gr8SlvrFlt From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 1583 posts, RR: 16 Reply 9, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 11746 times:
FlyCaledonian From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 1965 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 11689 times:
So what's the config of this aircraft following this work? Also, which aircarft are now in the new config, i.e. carry 84xx fleet numbers?
Qantas744ER From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 1251 posts, RR: 4 Reply 11, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 11632 times:
Amwest2United From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 378 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 11465 times:
Quoting Rj777 (Reply 6): If any UA peeps can tell me when this baby is doing a LAX run (NRT-LAX or SYD-LAX) I'd appreciate it much! I can always get word once it's on the ground (and make it to LAX for static and take-off shots) but it's the arrivals that's tough to get.
Thanks again
895-25 ORD 1217 2255 SIN 18:25 18:25
896-27 SIN 0650 1025 HKG 3:12 21:37
862-27 HKG 1230 0908 SFO 11:11 32:48
885-28 SFO 1146 1535 KIX 11:18 44:06
886-29 KIX 1730 1059 SFO 9:10 53:16
863-29 SFO 2243 0725 SYD 14:11 67:27
840-31 SYD 1450 1014 LAX 12:57 80:24
as of now, ship 8421 will be in lax on 3/31, arriving from SYD on flight 840.
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KBUF From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 458 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 11289 times:
Quoting Amwest2United (Reply 12): as of now, ship 8421 will be in lax on 3/31, arriving from SYD on flight 840.
Get your cameras ready, LAX spotters!
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SkyGirl From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 451 posts, RR: 4 Reply 14, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 11272 times:
Quoting Gr8SlvrFlt (Reply 9): Here's a -100 in the original "Star" colours:
And when i clicked on this thread, that's what I was hoping to see. a 400 in the original "star" colors :P
Quoting Amwest2United (Reply 12): as of now, ship 8421 will be in lax on 3/31, arriving from SYD on flight 840
It's always when Im working that all the good spotting occurs at LAX. I'll be there tomorrow, regardless.
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United1 From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 5337 posts, RR: 8 Reply 15, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 11113 times:
Wait a second.....
Quoting Amwest2United (Reply 1): Nineteen B747s have been repainted in the new livery, with the remaining seven B747s
That's 26 744s....UA was supposed to retire 6 out of the 30 which would leave them with 24....
N104UA From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 889 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 11001 times:
Quoting United1 (Reply 15): That's 26 744s....UA was supposed to retire 6 out of the 30 which would leave them with 24....
Are they holding onto 2 more 744s then planned?
The have not made a final decision they were holding onto 2 to run flights for Air Pacific, and with the low oil prices they might keep them
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United787 From United States of America, joined May 2005, 2342 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 8339 times:
If anyone is currently at ORD, it should be sitting at gate B16 waiting to board for its flight to HKG and SIN in about 1.5 hours... pictures anyone???
For the HKG spotters, it will be arriving at about 16:28 on March 26
For the SIN spotters, it will arriving at about 22:55 on March 26, plus it will be at the airport most of the morning on March 27...
Amwest2United From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 378 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 7225 times:
Already it changed!
895-26 ORD 1217 2255 SIN
896-28 SIN 0650 1025 HKG
862-28 HKG 1230 0908 SFO
900-28 SFO 1348 0945 FRA
901-29 FRA 1400 1614 SFO
Now heading to FRA on the 28th.
Keep in mind these change al the time.
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United787 From United States of America, joined May 2005, 2342 posts, RR: 1 Reply 19, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 6733 times:
Amwest2United From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 378 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 5117 times:
Quoting Amwest2United (Reply 18): So I assume it is not going to SIN today, is it still at ORD or is it doing another route that will take it back to ORD tomorrow?
It is spending the night in ORD again, maybe PR stuff, not sure. It will head to SIN tomorrow, 3/26 and arrive there on 3/27. Leave 3/28 SIN-HKG-SFO-FRA arrive FRA on 3/29.
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Amwest2United From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 378 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 4486 times:
on the way to SIN.
895-26 HKG 1907 2246 SIN
896-28 SIN 0650 1025 HKG
862-28 HKG 1230 0908 SFO
900-28 SFO 1348 0945 FRA
901-29 FRA 1400 1614 SFO
I still can not believe there are no pictures yet. Someone try to get a couple
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Amwest2United From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 378 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 3962 times:
Any spotters going to be in FRA tomorrow?
New STAR plane arriving @ 0913A, Flight 900, 38mins early
900-28 SFO 1345 0913 FRA
901-29 FRA 1400 1614 SFO
857-31*SFO 1318 1725 PVG
858-02*PVG 1225 0814 SFO
We need pictures!!!
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BN747 From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 5287 posts, RR: 52 Reply 23, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 3901 times:
26 Trojanclipper: UA895 ORD-HKG operated today with the new F and C seats....
27 Na: Again UA uses a fatter typefont than the rest of the Star Alliance. This looks better, although, as always, the airlines´ standard livery looks bette
28 SXDFC: I am curious about something, out of all the 747's in the UA fleet, why did UA choose N121UA? Also what goes into that decision with UA and at any oth
29 United1: More then likely it was simply the next 747 up next for a paint job....
31 413x3: beautiful livery, thanks Ben for that nice shot.
32 Ouboy79: Wha??????? Black letters on a white background = beautiful livery? Wow. Granted you may be colorblind, so I don't want to offend. I'm sorry, the Star
33 777ER: On the larger aircraft like B747, B777s, B763s it doesn't look nice as the white covers far to much, but on the B737s and A320s it looks nicer
35 United787: Looks great! Nice to see UA finally paint one of their 747s in the * livery! With one stroke of genius you insulted about 1/2 of the A-Net members an
37 Ouboy79: That may be. Perhaps if they pulled the logo down from the tail a bit and let it bleed over on the body, with maybe a color gradient like design (thi
38 Platinumfoota: Somethings off.... I think its the blank winglets, no logo or color
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