hungarianhc

Why is this so cool? I agree it's cool that they bought the first one, but 8000 is somewhat arbitrary... 5,000 and 10,000 seem more celebratory, but... whatever... yay?

enviroian

Yawn on this announcement.

mduell

Did they move the seat cushions up to shoulder level?

UA-NYC

Are you saying this is incorrect?

http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Uni...ter09JUN11.php
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Uni..._737-800_D.php

buckeyefanflyer

United pre merger actually gave up on the 737 in favor of airbus and had completely phased them out. They never operated anything after the -500. Continental had operated all the latter versions of the 737, -700, -800- and -900. So with no merger this would not be happening.

tashi

Are you serious? Its not a UA plane if the reg isnt N###UA

JOSECONLSCREW28

Staffed with sUA FAs....considered an sUA plane. And for the record I believe going forward all new delivered aircraft will come with an N12345 type of registration.

meFIRST

crumbs to sUA.

Most (all?) of the new wide bodies, flying international, are sCO aircraft.

WineCountryUA

But this is based on orders in place prior to the merger and sUA will be getting 788's soon. Hard to make this into a conspiracy.

TMOliver

Yes, I well understand the origin of the term and that the participants therein were largely New Englanders whose descendants avoid guilt trips. The "Slave Trade" long preceded the advent of the "triangular" portion thereof which, statistically at least, made up only a small portion of a far larger manifestation of man's inhumanity to man, not the least of which by African tribes who rounded up their neighbors, others aggressively encountered, and even their own tribes(wo)men/children for delivery to the slavers' entrepots.

Slavery wasa bad thing, yet its current practice and extent ought to worry us far more than the usage of terms connected with it.

I don't find the usage any more tasteless than a visit to Lisbon, a city which for a time thrived and grew from revenues from the trade, or to a Spanish cathedral, knowing the source and human price of the gold in its decor. I suppose neither of us should touch or use silver, tableware or coinage, if we're familiar with Potosi and the thousands who died to extract it and flood Western Europe with the prosperity gained and blood shed because of that commodity. At the same time, Spain was flooding China with part of Potosi's silver, creating an inexhaustible demand for it there. Most delicate Ming porcelain pieces in European or American museums are deeply infused with the blood of slaves or subjugated Andean tribesmen forced to extract the silver which paid for them. Need reminders of a "Slave Trade". Read about the Chinese enslaved in the 19th century to dig the guano from islands off the SA coast, so that your and my European and American great grandparents could live better trough agriculture, the nitrogen rich guano vastly increasing the production of grain, etc..

Who was it who once said (or near-abouts): "An introspective assessment of the evils lurking within should always precede criticism of the real or imagined evils of others"?

why fly

i hope the plane gets a cool paint job

walkerci

I can think of reasons to dislike the 737:

1. No middle boarding door.
2. No lie flat seats in front cabin ala 757-200.
3. The toilet seats refuse to stay in the upright and locked position.

That said, the 319 and 320 seats are uncomfortable.

mgcsinc

Only the internationally-configured and ps 752s have lie-flat seating.

UA-NYC

Assuming you're talking about the slimlines - both the legacy Y and F ones are ^^^

JOSECONLSCREW28

FA work groups are still separate and have metal protection in their contracts. so FAs on the sCO side can only work Continental aircraft, and FAs on the sUA side can only work United aircraft. So a Continental FA can't work a 747, just like a United FA can't work a 787. Regarding the 739ER issue any 739/739ER that are tail #s 401 - 478 are staffed by sCO FAs, while the 739ERs that are tail #s 801 - 821 are staffed by sUA FAs. Both FA work groups are even told internally that whenever they have a trip pairing with a 739 to make sure you are on the right aircraft. sCO FAs make sure your on a 401 - 478 739/739ER, and sUA FAs make sure your on a 801 - 821 739ER. Also any newly delivered 739ER being delivered are being delivered to the sUA side as they are being used as the replacement for the domestic 2-cabin 757s.

Hope this clears up the issue as to why it's referred to sCO, sCAL, sUA, sUAL, L-CAL, L-UAL.