Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

UA is putting the 77W on IAD-CPT this spring, a pretty substantial increase in capacity: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240318-ua2q24cpt Is this the longest 77W route in UA's network? Cape Town has proven to be an extremely successful route for both UA and DL. Is this route mainly used by American ...

Re: United Route Announcement 3/7/24

With many countries and businesses souring on China due to governance issues and a clampdown on dissent, India and Phillippines are the beneficaries for economic investment. United isn't there for VFR, they're there for the higher yielding business traffic. Lets not discount tourists. Cebu is hugel...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

I need to reveal my ignorance…what is an ASM? Here’s the thing, saying “WORLD’S LARGEST AIRLINE” to non Aviation geeks is a BIG CLAIM. To the average person that probably means the largest fleet or most destinations. It would seem that AA could legally say the same thing at the end of their ads! I ...

Re: United Route Announcement 3/7/24

Glad to see UA convert the seasonal 2nd daily SFO-ICN to a year round service. Especially since ICN is an outstation for UA with limited onward feed. Focusing on expanding SFO-ICN rather than opening a new route from another hub makes sense from a revenue optimization perspective since it can captu...

Re: United Route Announcement 3/7/24

On rewatch, the last one could easily be leaving from ICN/GMP - does ICN-GUM have potential?

Re: United Route Announcement 3/7/24

First one could be EWR-ICN? I've seen some IAD-ICN speculation on Reddit . I don't think either EWR/IAD-ICN fit the video, but even then I would be surprised if they launch IAD-ICN before launching EWR-ICN, given NY metro, including NJ is a far larger Korean diaspora than does the DC metro, plus no...

Re: Man flew LHR-JFK without any documents

phatfarmlines wrote:

The U.K. doesn't do exit passport control anymore right, aligning with U.S. policy?

Re: United Airlines Fleet Discussion - 2024

Flying on the 772 iad-san tomorrow and was really hoping to fly an evo-blue bird but no luck if the reg on Flightradar24 is correct. I fly UA 10-20 times a year - outside of one 73M I have yet to catch a single evo blue bird…. The repaints are SLOW. What gives? A lot of shabby looking UA planes bot...

Re: United “Actively investigating… corporate campus activity” outside DIA

I have absolutely no horse in this race, but if I were an employee at UA's current HQ I'd prefer it stays at Willis Tower since there's decent public transit (the L and Metra, plus several bus routes) right next to it, so little to no driving needed. I don't know where they'd put a HQ at DEN, but I...

Re: United “Actively investigating… corporate campus activity” outside DIA

I think the climate in Chicago will force the move. The land available around the DEN Airport amazes me. They could buy enough land to expand for a century or more. For tax reasons, I suspect UA must move. We shall see. Lightsaber Part of my opinion is that pilot training and corporate administrati...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

AC is able to do YYZ-DEL even with Russian airspace closure. Would have thought UA could still do ORD-DEL on a 789. I guess not. Anyone know? To be fair YYZ-DEL is a LOT bigger market than ORD-DEL. There is also quite a bit of competition on ORD-DEL. Aside from AI which has bottom barrel fares, the...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

Can anyone provide some context on this? Is this just the previously announced slot increases going to effect, (where UA is adding daily PVG and PEK from SFO) or is this in addition to that? If additional, I wonder what UA will add next? The inflight magazine still shows Chungdu as a current destin...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

https://news.sky.com/story/united-airlines-to-start-boarding-window-seat-passengers-first-in-bid-to-speed-up-process-12987177 window seat boarding first, then middle, then aisle. don't know what to make of that. I've read about this a few days ago. It's going to superheat already boiling water over...

Re: Updated: United orders 50 additional B787 and 60 A321s

Why does everyone want the A350 cancelled? If they didn’t want it, UA would cancel it. They haven’t. And reiterated that they are still interested in it for replacing 777s (meaning probably 777-300ERs) long-term. Because if they really wanted it, they would have taken it by now and not pushed it ba...

Re: Media: More B787's and A321s for United?

UA will certainly have a massive 787 fleet when all is said and done. Wow. At the rate they're going, it seems as if UA is gunning for having an exclusively 787 widebody fleet. They'll have the 77Ws for a while but they only have 20 of them. This strikes me as an odd decision since I do think they'...

Re: United Polaris 2.0?

The catering is the big thing that needs to be fixed. I remember on my last Polaris flight, I was served breakfast and basically it was a tiny hash brown and a single egg with some tomato dressing. I was not impressed. I'm not expecting SQ-class catering from UA, but I am expecting something that i...

Re: Air India gets ready to reveal new livery and branding in August

I actually think it will grow on me, but I actually think simply a modernized version of their old livery would've been great.

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

Glad to hear you all think the recent LAX TPAC adds are here to stay. It is definitely a very unique situation with the Chinese carriers not allowed to flood the market so I guess it’s smart for UA to capitalize that and bulk up LAX. Seems like it’s also a similar story in the South Pacific. Not th...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

ICN goes back to once daily at the end of October. UA has said they are still interested in ICN-EWR and HKG-EWR when the airspace issue is resolved. Would EWR-ICN overfly Russia? After looking on flightaware at recent JFK-ICN & ICN-JFK routes, it very much dances around Russian airspace over to...

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

Any chance of nonstop UA SFO-SGN? VN seems to be doing well on this route. I know that's long been a pet route of many of us. I have to think they can fill it but & them starting SFO-MNL is a nice sign... but.... (a) it's longer than SFO-MNL, about 850 miles or so, which matters quite a bit (b)...

Re: Planned UA terminal at JFK?

Cool dig-up.

It may be good if possible to update the topic name because I think many just scrolling may think this is more asking about a future terminal.

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

IMHO - SFO to MNL is long overdue but nice move. Ditto with resuming LAX-HKG. BTW, isn't Delta the largest at LAX at this point? Unless I'm mistaken, I was totally stoked to read about this. UA has some catching up to do with both DL and AA so that's probably why LAX-HKG is being relaunched. Yes, D...

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

BOM/BLR have plenty of high yielding traffic. The issue in India has always been it is a very competitive market because of ME carriers. But many airlines do send their premium configured aircraft to India. The issue US carriers had was subpar service (when compared to ME3) and very few nonstops. O...

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

BOM/BLR have plenty of high yielding traffic. The issue in India has always been it is a very competitive market because of ME carriers. But many airlines do send their premium configured aircraft to India. The issue US carriers had was subpar service (when compared to ME3) and very few nonstops. O...

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

Although MNL has historically been considered a low yield market, I wonder now that Pinoy-Americans are usually the top 1 or 2 highest earning ethnic groups in the USA, if that might well be changing. Indian-Americans are also quite high earning, yet India routes are usually consider "low yiel...

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

Congrats to UA, though I'm surprised given UA's reputation, and let's say "playfullness" on route adds/changes, that there wasn't some cutesy social media post filled with easter eggs and the like. Anyway, as for the adds, many had long speculated on SFO-MNL, so very curious to see how tha...

Re: UA20 diverts - Unruly passenger due to unavailability of preferred meal

You fly for the space and privacy you claim, what would you do if when you got onboard and neither existed at your seat? To suggest that the pax was flying just for the meal is rather... The meal is part of the experience. The airline's value prop is based on curating of experiences for people who ...

Re: UA20 diverts - Unruly passenger due to unavailability of preferred meal

The food in Polaris is basically inedible so the pax must have forgot to check out the Polaris lounge preflight. Yes, the ticket was expensive, but who flies for the meal? I’ve flown international F and J many times. I like the space and privacy. I never look forward to the meal service. My expecta...

Re: UA20 diverts - Unruly passenger due to unavailability of preferred meal

Before someone causes a ruckus on a plane, five simple questions to ask yourself: 1.) Am I in an enclosed space I cannot escape from? 2.) Are there hundreds of people who will witness my ‘ruckus’ and testify against me? 3.) Do people have cell phones to record my ruckus? 4.) Am I going to completel...

Re: UA20 diverts - Unruly passenger due to unavailability of preferred meal

Nowadays more and more airlines are switching to pre-ordering meals, but as said, I'm not sure if United is one of those airlines. Seems to me like United is rather old-fashioned when it comes to this, still asking on board which meal passengers want. That system is on it's way out, pre-ordering is...

Re: UA20 diverts - Unruly passenger due to unavailability of preferred meal

You are not to going to a restaurant to dine out you are going on a flight from A to B, the mind set of these people amazes me. The mindset of this particular person I don't get at all. But the mindset of "I expect pretty good food on my $4k-8k business class ticket" is not ridiculous. UA...

Re: UA20 diverts - Unruly passenger due to unavailability of preferred meal

slvrblt wrote:

Baloney. Let's have some consequences.

Re: UA20 diverts - Unruly passenger due to unavailability of preferred meal

The food in Polaris is basically inedible so the pax must have forgot to check out the Polaris lounge preflight. I hear this trotted out all the time and I wonder if the people saying it have ever flown Polaris or if it's just become a meme at this point. I fly Polaris somewhat regularly and my mea...

Re: United Blaming 4-Day Cancellation Meltdown "Partially" on the FAA

Some of the tarmac delays on arrival today at EWR are wild - 1518 from PUJ on at 8:06pm, estimated in at 11pm...351 from AGP on 12:44pm and in 3:57pm. Even HND waited over an hour for a gate. JFK last night was a mess too (I was on SK from CPH and waited close to an hour and a half for a gate at 10...

Re: United Blaming 4-Day Cancellation Meltdown "Partially" on the FAA

Some of the tarmac delays on arrival today at EWR are wild - 1518 from PUJ on at 8:06pm, estimated in at 11pm...351 from AGP on 12:44pm and in 3:57pm. Even HND waited over an hour for a gate. JFK last night was a mess too (I was on SK from CPH and waited close to an hour and a half for a gate at 10...

Re: United Blaming 4-Day Cancellation Meltdown "Partially" on the FAA

His main point was around an understaffed FAA limiting flights into and out of particularly EWR far more than they previously had during summer weather events. Even as a UA FF, I can say there's certainly aspects that UA has messed up, and delays far too often in EWR cascade just brutally. This was ...

Re: Air India 777 on an India-SFO non stop made an emergency landing in Magadan, Russia

Time to stop the speculations. Flight AI173D from Magadan, Russia (GDX) is now airborne for San Francisco (SFO), carrying all passengers and crew. The flight departed GDX at 1027 Hours on 08 June 2023 (local time) and is expected to arrive at SFO at 0015 Hours on 08 June 2023 (local time). So you m...

Re: Riyadh Air reveals first of 2 livery designs

Personally I'm not a fan of the tail design/color/logo, but the body itself looks beautiful.

Re: ANZ to weigh pax before boarding thru 2 July 2023

manny wrote:

This is very intrusive. I am not sure if this would fly over here in the US.

Re: EWR Airport redevelopment

I think there was a concourse on the far west side of the terminal according to old maps. Can’t really find any pictures of it being used, nor have I seen any remnants of any entryway to that area. Yeah, prior to the existing C3, the earlier one extended further west than the current. I don’t think...

Re: EWR Airport redevelopment

Tayo826 wrote:

Does anyone know what will happen to the head house of the original Terminal A?

Re: Turkish Airlines to order 600 aircraft in June

I have serious questions about this. TK, an airline with a total fleet of 400 planes, ordering 400 wide bodies? I know they have opportunity to grow but that sounds a little excessive… Deliveries will be over the next decade (and probably only starting in a good while) per the link. Also if the lin...

Re: 30 Years of Airbus A340 Operations

I’ve been lucky to have passengered aboard every version of the A340 A340-200: Sabena A340-300: Air France, BWIA, Emirates, Gulf Air, Lufthansa, SAS, Swiss A340-500: Emirates A340-600: Lufthansa It has carried me over deserts and oceans, and up until the A380 provided by far the most comfortable an...

Re: Newark (EWR) #1 for European destinations

I don't think this will be a permanent arrangement. Once the rest of the terminal opens, and the A-2/3 banjos come down, UA will be more flexible with the aircraft they schedule in and out of terminal A. There will no longer be taxilane restrictions and bus transfers between A and C will be faster....

Re: Newark (EWR) #1 for European destinations

With the Russian overflight restrictions, European carriers are seeing more transit volume USA-EU-India and KL could certainly benefit from an EWR-AMS-India connection as it has in the past. Indeed they could benefit from US-AMS-India connections but why specifically EWR? I mean, they already serve...

Re: BA 180 EWR-LHR Cancelled FOUR Times Last Week

Because the inbound BA181 was cancelled, so no airplane to operate BA180. Obviously. The OP is wondering why it was canceled 4 days in a row, and five out of 7 last week. I notice it is has been upgauged to an A380 tomorrow than the usual 787. Maybe to help clear a backlog. My guess is perhaps it w...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

I would be really surprised if UA hasnt at least investigated how to make EWR-SIN work with the B789, even with a payload penalties... Russia’s again putting the kibosh on that one for the foreseeable future, even if there is an aircraft that can do it and workable economics. The route SQ21 appears...

Re: 1Q 2023 US Airline Earnings

How do the DL and UA earnings compare? Lately, UA has been closing the gap. Were their special charges related to pilot contracts similar, or did one of the two take a bigger hit? UA hasn't achieved a new pilot contract yet, so 1Q23 earnings didn't take a hit. As I posted upthread, DL had ~13 quart...

Re: New United Airlines Route Teaser - Routes TBA on 4/18

Complete speculation/wish list from me, but would love to see EWR-ICN. Wth the impending OZ/KE merger, there will be no *A presence NYC-ICN - big Korean community & business ties. I honestly don't know the numbers in terms of demand coming back post Covid in South Korea but always thought this w...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

These are all very valid points. I know the aircraft utilization is not ideal for South America given how much time they have to sit on the ground in South America. I thought the yields were good though, I didn't realize it was generally poor yields to South America. If that is the case though and ...