jayunited, what's the status of resuming flights to SIN? Right now the schedule shows the route resuming 1x daily starting on January 4, 2022, however I don't have much faith in that resumption date. United has already made some adjustments to the January schedule but our January schedule is by no ...
Jump to postCould we get LAX-FRA or LAX-TLV while we're at it for S22? Unless something changes dramatically, I'd say zero chances. I wouldn't be so sure about zero chance especially for LAX-TLV. Keep in mind LAX was on the short list of potential hubs to get nonstop service to TLV but ORD won the last round. ...
Jump to postHow many flights can UA handle at EWR once the new terminal 1 is built? I'm just wondering because UA will have 12 gates in the new terminal and are likely to expand to 20 gates in 2023 according to a website I read. https://airlineweekly.com/2021/05/united-beats-jetblue-into-newark-airports-new-te...
Jump to postHis statement about the A380s being the worst for the environment seems a bit comical now. When faced with a challenge Qatar is choosing money over the environment which is what most people thought they would do anyway. Once they put those A380s back in service I have serious doubts they would place...
Jump to posthttps://www.bbc.com/news/business-58731340 I'm surprised the number of holdouts is that high. Have other major carriers implemented vaccine mandates ? High? It's incredibly low...593 out of 67000+ employees? That's about 0.9%... Good job all around by United and it's employees! Well, considering th...
Jump to postIt looks like flight 362 HNL-EWR did an air return yesterday not long at all after takeoff. According to flightradar, the airplane (N76064) is sched to fly to EWR today as flt 2840. Flight 2756 is showing as cancelled for the airframe departing at the same time (1500). With a 28xx and not a 27xx fl...
Jump to postClearly this is really targeted at largely Indian nationals and expats traveling between the US and their hometowns. I'm sure AA has no thought that his is useful for business class, just the other 200 seats on the plane flying to India. I don't know if that is necessarily true, I'm not sure how mu...
Jump to postWill be very interesting to see how your weekly passengers carried report reflects the increased flying at EWR as it rolls forward. Does this move involve bringing employees off of furlough and I would assume that process is well underway? I don't know how many employees remain on voluntary furloug...
Jump to postAs I mentioned a week or so ago UA will increase our daily departures out of EWR in October to 320 daily departures (on most days) up from 240 daily departures now. Looking ahead to November United will again increase EWR's daily departures to anywhere between 385-400 on most days. From what I'm he...
Jump to postAs I mentioned a week or so ago UA will increase our daily departures out of EWR in October to 320 daily departures (on most days) up from 240 daily departures now. Looking ahead to November United will again increase EWR's daily departures to anywhere between 385-400 on most days. From what I'm hea...
Jump to postI'll take a long jet bridge over a hard stand with buses Euro style any day of the week. Terminal is coming along fast. I hope the inside of the terminal is as slick as the roof is rendered ;) I feel like getting the T5 completed in 2022 will put some pressure on the Global Terminal project since t...
Jump to postWhy did they pick Geneva and not another Zurich flight like ORD-ZRH? United needs to reopen GVA it is time we reconnected that station to the network. We already have resumed EWR and IAD-ZRH flights, any passenger needing to travel to ZRH can either travel on Swiss or on United via a connection in ...
Jump to postEWR-GVA resumes in November 3x weekly. IAH-SYD, SFO-KIX, IAD-HND gone until late March (https://crankyflier.com/2021/09/27/more-cuts-flood-the-fall-but-some-growth-creeps-into-2022/) SIN goes down to 1x daily when it resumes. I still don't see IAH-SYD resuming until IATA fall 2022. Depending on how...
Jump to postI flew through IAH, DEN and ORD this week and IAH seemed really slow. Has UA cut back there. It was a Tuesday, but UA seemed much busier at DEN and ORD. I wonder if it is because of the Delta variant. Glad to see DEN and ORD still busy. They need more than one UA club at DEN with all the routes the...
Jump to postI've said this before, but I feel that the lack of known products in certain markets allows other carriers to capitalize on the UA methodology. As noted, 78X once flew this route, but so did the 77A (MAD, not sure of BCN), so you really can't be sure what you're going to get. AA, on the other hand,...
Jump to postAll four remaining going HiJ 76L? N657UA 6457 N658UA 6458 N661UA 6461 N663UA 6463 6457, 6458, 6461, 6462 and 6463 have work packages included for 76L. 6457 not scheduled yet 6458 not scheduled yet 6461 scheduled 10/10 6462 currently in check as of 9/25 6463 scheduled 11/03 Why is UA still selling t...
Jump to postNext weeks revenue passenger count numbers are out and I must admit I'm surprised United is holding on so strongly during the lull between the end of the summer travel season and the Thanksgiving holiday rush. Next week numbers which takes us into October (September 26th through October 2nd) are sti...
Jump to postSome minor schedule tweaks tonight for November... doesn't appear to be anything to extreme. IAH/IAD-AMS appear to be gone for November. IAH-GIG will come back however. As mentioned earlier, IAD-LOS will launch at the end of the month. Is the domestic schedule for November firm? That is a tough que...
Jump to postArticle sums it up: https://airlineweekly.com/2021/09/delta-ceo-says-place-for-boeings-737-max-in-fleet/ I still doubt they'll do it without getting MRO on that specific engine variant from CFM. Personally hope that neither happens, as it's nice to have a major airline option that allows avoidance ...
Jump to postThe pandemic has turned United Airlines into a thriving freight company - Quartz This summer, Nocella appeared that consumer demand for air travel was recovering because it forced United to divert planes from profitable cargo routes to carry passengers instead. “We are not going to be able to do mo...
Jump to postInternally, UA is telling pilots that the A350 order is on the “back burner” for now. No current plans to take delivery. Doesn’t mean it’s a definite cancel, but clearly there are no intentions to take them in the next 3-4 years (my guess). Airbus thought they had an opening, in fact telling United...
Jump to postNothing stops DOT/DOJ from reviewing the deal. As is DOJ did express concern that the alliance could cause coordination that leads to increased ticket prices. The outgoing Transportation Secretary literally on her final day in office signed off on the joint venture which certainly raised eyebrows. ...
Jump to postI probably should have posted this some time ago but I completely forgot. October is right around the corner and with that runway 22L/4R at EWR is scheduled to reopen during certain hours of the day. With that in mind United will add up 68 additional departures per day (on busy days) from EWR, this ...
Jump to postSenators and Congress people ask for things all the time. Nothing may come of it. That the DOT previously granted approval doesn't mean they can't revoke it with good reason. What good reason would there be to revoke it? What has changed between 2020 and 2021 except the administration? I don't work...
Jump to postConnecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal calling Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to investigate a partnership between AA and JetBlue saying the partnership in an already highly consolidated industry decreases competition at airports in New York and Boston. https://thehill.com/policy/transport...
Jump to postIt will be interesting to see UA's response to the reopening of international borders. Any guesses on how UA might respond? We have grown our widebody fleet, haven't permanently parked any fleets and have been hiring since March so hopefully the response will be appropriately aggressive once that f...
Jump to postAnyone who thinks the negative test requirement is going away any time soon may need to accept the possibility of not traveling internationally until 2023 or later. Until they declare an end to this pandemic I don't see the negative test requirement being dropped. That conflicts with a popular sent...
Jump to postHopefully the corollary will also be implemented that fully vaccinated US citizens can return without PCR testing. Exactly. As long as vaccinated pax are forced to get an (expensive) PCR or Antigen test, it is disingenuous to talk about "lifting restrictions": An expensive PCR or Antigen ...
Jump to postIt’s going to be years if ever. I'm willing to wager (figuratively speaking of course) if Australia is reopen to international travel that IAH-SYD may resume on October 30, 2022 along with LAX/SFO-MEL. There is so much pent up demand for travel to/from Australia on both sides of the Pacific UA may ...
Jump to postKeep one stashed in the rear cargo bay and unload if first without exception. No excuse for this event to happen so often. Put a placard on the front bay door reminding ramp that it's a -900. Have you ever handled a tail stand? It’s not a broom stick but a very heavy odd shaped metal contraption. I...
Jump to postUpdate: Schedule changes on United flights to Australia. With Australian government lowering the number of international arrivals per week in to NSW to under 800 this has forced United to have to make some changes to our scheduled service. Beginning on September 22 United's LAX-SYD flight will tran...
Jump to postRevenue Passenger Numbers are out for next week September 19th - 25th. Next week United has 2.4 million revenue passengers on the books this compares for 2.3 million revenue passengers this week. Looking at the hubs best day of the week v.s. worst day of the week. DEN: Best Sunday 9/19 @ 45,916 reve...
Jump to postI've been able to get some information on this incident, the aircraft involved was tail number N78448, it is still grounded at LWS and from the pictures seen internally the external damage is pretty severe. The damage is not really all that bad even though it looks that way. The way they shined the...
Jump to postHey jayunited how does this work? Is it 800 passengers per week for all carriers? If so, what’s United’s allocation and how does the allocation system work? The actual number according to this website is 750 total passenger per week for ALL carriers. So United has to reduce our passenger flights do...
Jump to postUpdate: Schedule changes on United flights to Australia. With Australian government lowering the number of international arrivals per week in to NSW to under 800 this has forced United to have to make some changes to our scheduled service. Beginning on September 22 United's LAX-SYD flight will trans...
Jump to postI've been able to get some information on this incident, the aircraft involved was tail number N78448, it is still grounded at LWS and from the pictures seen internally the external damage is pretty severe. As others have already pointed out this was a charter flight, there was nothing loaded in the...
Jump to postN19951 787-9 is ferrying SFO-NRT-XMN for MX/Polaris MOD 16Sep N36962 787-9 is ferrying ORD-NRT-XMN for MX/Polaris MOD 16Sep Since the other two 789s have alredy ferried out of XMN, United must be going to operate a shuttle or additional ferry flight on a separate piece of equipment to get those cre...
Jump to postLagos start date announced - November 29 - 3x weekly from IAD. The Nigerian government really took their time approving United's application, glad United was able to make the December launch window. Some months ago on a townhall employees were told if United didn't get approval to launch the route ...
Jump to postAnd we saw how CO management did after the merger a mess a bunch of clowns. I am not saying UA Mgt was any better but before the merger UA was moving in the right direction and would have made it with out the CO baggage. Wo wo wo wo wo stop while you are ahead and let's think about this. I wasn't g...
Jump to postThis weeks revenue passenger number our out. The number is 2.3 million revenue passengers are on the books throughout the entire system. For hubs we will do the best day and worst day this week for each hub. DEN: best Sunday 9/12 @ 45,972 revenue pax; worst Tuesday 9/14 @ 35,084 revenue pax IAH: be...
Jump to postThis weeks revenue passenger number our out. The number is 2.3 million revenue passengers are on the books throughout the entire system. For hubs we will do the best day and worst day this week for each hub. DEN: best Sunday 9/12 @ 45,972 revenue pax; worst Tuesday 9/14 @ 35,084 revenue pax IAH: bes...
Jump to postI don't have any pictures of that day but I did report to work at ORD for my afternoon shift and the one thing I remember that stood out to me and still gives me chills is the silence on the ramp. I have never experience that type of silence at an airport while on the ramp, there wasn't a tractor ru...
Jump to postThis just came in still getting information UA 899-11 DEL-ORD did a return to field (RTFL) aircraft back on the ground safely and an emergency was declared with ATC. Preliminary reports states the rudder made an un-commanded movement at or near FL30 which caused the aircraft to do a slight roll. The...
Jump to postI've loosely followed the OMP. I never understood how the old runway arrangement wasn't rearranged years ago. It looks to me that the people that shoehorned in the 6 parallel and 2 crosswind runways knew what they were doing. I don't think I would say that about the people responsible for the peopl...
Jump to postCongratulations to Chicago! I think the OMP is one of the top 5 infrastructure projects in Chicago’s history and also one of the most significant aviation projects in the US in the last 50 years but probably one of the most underrated on this site. You are right it probably is underrated on this si...
Jump to postSchedule updates for DEL Starting today 9/9/2021 ORD-DEL increases from 3x weekly to 4x weekly (flight will not operate outbound on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturdays) On yesterday9/8/2021 EWR-DEL reverted back to a 77W from the 789 that was temporarily on the route for the entire month of August. No ...
Jump to postAre we some sort of joke to you ? Hahaha ! :lol: In all seriousness, your average cargo sales rep or cargo reservations agent may not know the intricacies of what sets a 737-900 and a 737-9ER apart but the cargo platform uses the same fleet codes as the rest of the company. The capacity inventory s...
Jump to post@jayunited, any chance we could see the O&D numbers by hub for the last week? Okay I have this weeks number August 29th through September 4th and because Monday is a holiday I have next weeks numbers already as well September 5th through September 11th. This week August 29th through September 4...
Jump to postThis reply made me chuckle as I flew 737NGs for well over a decade and have well over 13,000 hours in them. In other words, I'm well aware of the limitations. If I recall correctly, the DEN-PHX flight in question was originally set to be a -900ER and was swapped to a non ER version the day of the f...
Jump to postIs the A.net urban legend would lead you to believe, but boeingguy1's plan for Florida flying does work. This then frees up the -900ERs to fly longer segments. I flew the first one at CO, ship #401, in it's first week. IIRC, my last flight in a non-ER -900 was from DEN to PHX with a full load in th...
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