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Quoting VC10er (Reply 102): |
Quoting VC10er (Reply 102): So, the nice cool grey on the A320 is NOT a "slimline"? |
Quoting VC10er (Reply 102): While comfortable, they are pretty darn thin vs the old sUA economy seat. Are these blue ones (I love the small tag) even more slim? |
Quoting VC10er (Reply 102): As a headrest fanatic, lars the headrests adjustable and when the wings are pulled up, do they support your 8 lbs bowling ball head? |
Quoting VC10er (Reply 102): Does this spell the demise of the sCO checkered upholstery? |
Quoting VC10er (Reply 102): AND: what does the NEW domestic first class seat look like? |
Quoting VC10er (Reply 95): The aircraft had brand new 2 tone grey seats. |
Quoting adamblang (Reply 105): Also, a related point – some Airbuses have gray seats because the seat frame was ready before the signature look was ready. The few dozen Airbuses with gray seat covers will be getting blue/black leather with the tag seat covers over the coming months. So even though the CRJs/E-Jets have one seat frame, the Airbii have another, and the 737s a third, thy'll have a consistent blue/black leather with tag look to them eventually. |
Quoting CALTECH (Reply 107): Thought the Airbus Grey were 3410 and new SlimLine Blue seats were 3520H, different part numbers. Plus the Blue Slimlines came out 3 years after the Grey Recaros. Doing a quick check of the part numbers shows the Grey and Blue leather slim line seats are different too. If the seats can get away with new covers only, it would save some money. |
Quoting adamblang (Reply 108): Seat frame on the Airbii isn't changing – that's consistent across the fleet. Some of those frames have blue seats covers today and some have gray seat covers. Eventually they'll all be blue seat covers. |
Quoting codc10 (Reply 110): Is there some variation to the seats going into the 737 fleet? |
Quoting SunsetLimited (Reply 100): The new blue slimline seats are pretty comfortable actually. I was pleasantly surprised when I tried them out for the first time on a 739ER a couple of months ago. Much better, IMO, than the ones installed on the A32S fleet. |
Quoting CALPSAFltSkeds (Reply 114): 738s all have DTV (execept for mid lavs undergoing removal), no stream needed |
Quoting CALPSAFltSkeds (Reply 114): Not sure what the delay is. |
Quoting ordbosewr (Reply 116): I highly doubt any plane that DTV will get the stream service as it would be a competitor to DTV. Unless they allow you to pay one fee for both services, which could be a good option, but even if they go that direction it should be the last fleet to get the stream services since they have 'dark' planes that need some entertainment. |
Quoting United1 (Reply 117): Contractually UA actually can't put the Panasonic WiFi or streaming service on any DTV equipped aircraft. The WiFi system that is being installed on the DTV aircraft uses DTVs equipment. UA also doesn't charge for using the streaming video system.... |
Quoting Cosyr (Reply 118): Maybe, instead of teaming up with DTV, they could team up with Netflix or Hulu to provide content for free! |
Quoting Cosyr (Reply 118): Question is how long? To both comments. I assume, when their current contract is up, DTV will be going, unless the cost of removal is to high. Am I correct that United doesn't actually make any revenue from DTV, but also didn't have to pay to install them? I thought that originally, it was a selling point for luring customers and saving money on programming, not a revenue builder for the airline. Otherwise, I would think they would expand it to Airbus and newer 737's. |
Quoting United1 (Reply 119): Anything possible but keep in mind that the streaming video content is stored on board the aircraft not streamed from the ground. |
Quoting Cosyr (Reply 120): Let's test it. Who's up for an A.net only UA flight next week? Bring your laptops! |
Quoting Cosyr (Reply 120): But as Netflix pointed out when switching to online content, from DVD's, they are not a DVD business, but a content delivery business. They license the content, and could provide it to United, to be stored on aircraft...I would hope, |
Quoting United1 (Reply 121): The could contract it out to netflix but its obvious that the server onboard would not be able to offer even a fraction of what netflix has on demand. The streaming system actually works rather well and has an even larger selection to choose from than the AVOD system. |
Quoting CALPSAFltSkeds (Reply 124): 789: N13954 sked to enter DEN Induction from CHS 2159/31Mar |
Quoting Cosyr (Reply 118): Question is how long? To both comments. I assume, when their current contract is up, DTV will be going, unless the cost of removal is to high. Am I correct that United doesn't actually make any revenue from DTV, but also didn't have to pay to install them? I thought that originally, it was a selling point for luring customers and saving money on programming, not a revenue builder for the airline. Otherwise, I would think they would expand it to Airbus and newer 737's. |
Quoting Boeing12345 (Reply 11): The two used 700's will be registered as 751 and 752. |
Quoting iahcsr (Reply 129): New delivery 739 Ship 0848 has "March of Dimes" livery ... Can't figure out how to post pic from IPad though. |
Quoting CALTECH (Reply 131): Read somewhere about # 751 737-71Q(HP-1369 - N15751) and # 752 737-71Q1(HP-1370 - N17752), plus reading something about # 753 737-7V3(HP-1379 - N17753) and # 754 737-7V3(HP-1380 - N12754). Maybe they are taking two more for a total of 4. |
Quoting CALTECH (Reply 127): Think you will see WiFi becoming the new way, killing off AVOD and DTV/LTV. |
Quoting FlyHossD (Reply 133): Four confirms what I'd heard in January. Are #751 and #752 in service? |
Quoting jetblastdubai (Reply 137): |
Quoting cosyr (Reply 138): Quoting jetblastdubai (Reply 137): I don't think they are looking for every used aircraft they can find. The 73G's are the supplement an already small subfleet. Given that 32 was almost too small to justify, I highly doubt they would be interested in 12 of anything, stand alone. |
Quoting United1 (Reply 139): They may be up to 40 73Gs on property...the 36 original, 2 from COPA and 2 additional that CALTECH is seeing tail numbers for. |
Quoting CALTECH (Reply 140): All 4 new arrivals are from COPA. Post # 131 has their old and new registration numbers. |
Quoting United1 (Reply 139): They may be up to 40 73Gs on property...the 36 original, 2 from COPA and 2 additional that CALTECH is seeing tail numbers for. |
Quoting CALTECH (Reply 140): All 4 new arrivals are from COPA. Post # 131 has their old and new registration numbers. |
Quoting CALPSAFltSkeds (Reply 144): |