Mistake on Seatmap united.com? Lie flat sea-ewr on redeye?
Sep 24, 2017, 10:50 am
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Mistake on Seatmap united.com? Lie flat sea-ewr on redeye?
Just looking for flights on united.com on Nov 1st from sea-ewr. The redeye shows an international configured 757 as a seat map. Is that real or is it a mistake? If real, do they ever change the plane?
Sep 24, 2017, 11:19 am
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Looks real, and not just on 11/1. The switch looks to start from 10/29 with UA1696 from EWR, and UA1695 from SEA.
Sep 24, 2017, 11:26 am
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They cut Saturday frequencies on this route fairly recently. I was booked on this redeye for early December only to find out (on my own, of course) that I had been rebooked via ORD and that I needed to call reservations for reticketing.
Sep 24, 2017, 4:21 pm
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It's currently just one round trip 77W between SFO and EWR. But you're right, they have the high density (10 across) 772 cycling in now in addition to the 752s.
Last edited by NewYork1K; Sep 24, 2017 at 4:25 pm Reason: clarified 772 config
Sep 24, 2017, 4:52 pm
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They are also running an sCO 752 EWR<>SAN when I fly the route in November. Maybe trying to compete against AS(?)...seems kind of random, but I'll take it!
Sep 24, 2017, 5:16 pm
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Yes, absolutely. Absent a specific declaration from United, aircraft assignments are not guaranteed.
However, the current contract of carriage defines a change of aircraft type to one that provides "different seat configurations" to be irregular operations. So, if you book the route expecting a lie-flat, and they swap to an aircraft without it, you should be able to get a re-route or a refund.
However, the current contract of carriage defines a change of aircraft type to one that provides "different seat configurations" to be irregular operations. So, if you book the route expecting a lie-flat, and they swap to an aircraft without it, you should be able to get a re-route or a refund.
Sep 24, 2017, 8:29 pm
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I would imagine they will. You don't see too many schedule changes happen once you get inside 2 months of the flight, IME. Of course, if there are IRROPs on the day of, it will almost certainly be the easiest flight for UA to sub in a 737 for.
Nov 10, 2017, 12:17 pm
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I booked this route on a Christmas Day overnight flight w/ my fiancee and I am very excited about these lie flat seats! Would love to hear someone's experience with SEA-EWR on the 757-200
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Nov 26, 2017, 11:29 am
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I was flying SEA-IAD yesterday, and saw the next gate had the 757 with lie flights going to Newark. It even looked like 3 upgrades cleared. I was checking a couple dates in February and it looked like they also had 757 lie flat service.