sCO 739/739ER vs sUA 739ER

Old Feb 16, 2014, 8:50 pm
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sCO 739/739ER vs sUA 739ER

Since there seems to be a lot of confusion about sUA not operating any 737 variant, I wanted to start this thread and provide sources that sUA does indeed now have 739ERs. A couple of ways to identify an sCO vs sUA aircraft.

1. Tail #s:
On united.com sCO operated flights are in the 3401 - 3478 tail # range. sUA are in the 3801 - 3813 tail # range. All sUA aircraft will be in the 8xx tail # range.

2. IFE: Most sCO 739/739ERs have DirecTV some do not. No sUA 739 has any IFE at all

3. Seats: All sCO 739/739ERs have the original CO seats. Some sUA 739ERs have the CO seats, while from tail #s 811 on up will have the new slimline leather seats.

4. Interior: sCO 739/739ERs either have the traditional 737NG interior (tail #s 401 - 444 or Sky Interior (tail #s 445 -478) All sUA 739ERs have Sky Interior.

A couple of sources that does in fact prove that sUA does indeed have some 739ERs :

http://calafa.org/news/union-update-nov-22-2013

http://unitedafa.org/news/details.aspx?id=8428

http://unitedafa.org/news/details.aspx?id=8254

Hope this clears up the issue of weather or not sUA has 739ERs.

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Old Feb 16, 2014, 9:19 pm
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If you want to see where they're going (hint: everywhere) -
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N64809
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N66803
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N66808
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N67812
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N68801
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N68802
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N68804
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N68805
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N68807
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N68811
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N69804
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N69806
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N69810
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N69813

edit: Hmm, N68804 is a mistake, United has N69804 but they're sending us N68804 most of the time.

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Old Feb 16, 2014, 9:31 pm
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Yep, it's getting harder and harder to tell whether your flight is sUA or sCO...
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Originally Posted by Hadrian35
Yep, it's getting harder and harder to tell whether your flight is sUA or sCO...
As is to be expected for merger that's been in place so long.
Maybe, just maybe, erasing the pmUA vs pmCO distinction [by converting both to the dismal Smisek Air] is the one thing they've done right.

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Old Feb 16, 2014, 10:09 pm
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Originally Posted by JOSECONLSCREW28

Hope this clears up the issue of weather or not sUA has 739ERs.
Thanks for the very informative post. What can you tell us about the 738 in this regard?
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Old Feb 16, 2014, 10:11 pm
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Originally Posted by Hadrian35
Yep, it's getting harder and harder to tell whether your flight is sUA or sCO...
Nope, it's getting harder and harder to tell whether your 739 flight is sUA or sCO...unless you use flightaware or follow the latest UA fleet update thread...

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Old Feb 16, 2014, 10:11 pm
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Originally Posted by CCIE_Flyer
Thanks for the very informative post. What can you tell us about the 738 in this regard?
All UA 738s are sCO.
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Old Feb 16, 2014, 10:13 pm
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Originally Posted by Hadrian35
Yep, it's getting harder and harder to tell whether your flight is sUA or sCO...
Only the crew knows for sure
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I asked this in one of the other threads, but I don't think anyone answered, and it makes sense here: should we expect these birds to be swapped in for our existing sUA flights (like, if I'm currently booked on an airbus) or our existing sCO flights (currently booked on a 738) or both?
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Old Feb 16, 2014, 10:18 pm
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Originally Posted by CCIE_Flyer
Thanks for the very informative post. What can you tell us about the 738 in this regard?
738 are all sCO. The oldest one being a 1998 build and the youngest one being a 2011 build.

Originally Posted by mgcsinc
I asked this in one of the other threads, but I don't think anyone answered, and it makes sense here: should we expect these birds to be swapped in for our existing sUA flights (like, if I'm currently booked on an airbus) or our existing sCO flights (currently booked on a 738) or both?
Yes sometimes flights will be operated by an sCO bird, other times an sUA bird. Also for the most part the swaps (739ER at least) try to at least remain on the side which originally was to operate the flight. Example if a sCO 739ER went tech they try to swap it out for another sCO 739ER and if an sUA 739ER went tech they try to swap it out for another sUA 739ER now this isn't always the case and sometimes an sCO 739ER will swap out for an sUA 739ER and vice versa.

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Old Feb 17, 2014, 11:23 am
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Originally Posted by steve64
As is to be expected for merger that's been in place so long.
Maybe, just maybe, erasing the pmUA vs pmCO distinction [by converting both to the dismal Smisek Air] is the one thing they've done right.
Those are my sentiments in a nutshell
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Old Feb 17, 2014, 11:27 am
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When are the sUA 739s going to be flown by sUA pilots?
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Old Feb 17, 2014, 11:28 am
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Keep in mind that as of March pilots from pmUA and pmCO can freely fly any 737. After the beginning of March the only way to tell which side the pilot came from on the 737 is to ask them (and many may be mixed pilot crews).

FAs will remain separate and can be determined by noting the tail number, as JOSECONLSCREW28 noted in the OP.
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Old Feb 17, 2014, 11:32 am
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I thought sUA flight numbers were in the 200-999 range. But a quick spot check of the sUA 739s shows that they are flying in the sCO flight number range.

Shouldn't they be in the sUA flight number range?
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Old Feb 17, 2014, 11:34 am
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Originally Posted by Infinite1K
I thought sUA flight numbers were in the 200-999 range. But a quick spot check of the sUA 739s shows that they are flying in the sCO flight number range.

Shouldn't they be in the sUA flight number range?
sCO pilots are flying them, that's why.
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