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N209UA still scheduled to go in for XP->XQ conversion tomorrow? Wanted to confirm whether or not info from a.net and posted on the wiki was still accurate.
N209UA is out, N216UA and N773UA are in... the conversions are back in full swing!
N209UA is out, N216UA and N773UA are in... the conversions are back in full swing!
Is this the first time two 777s are in at the same time? Are both conversions happening at the same place (SFO)? I remember reading somewhere that a number of 777s will be converted somewhere else besides SFO during heavy maintenance checks.
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Is this the first time two 777s are in at the same time? Are both conversions happening at the same place (SFO)? I remember reading somewhere that a number of 777s will be converted somewhere else besides SFO during heavy maintenance checks.
Believe the answer to your first question is yes.
As to where the conversions are happening, I do believe they are in different locations.
Has anyone flown a new config 777 out of SEA. On a lark I checked ualcargo and it shows 77Q but united.com shows the old seatmap. Am I missing something or did I luck out for Monday's flight?
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N209UA is out, N216UA and N773UA are in... the conversions are back in full swing!
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Originally Posted by Bitterroot
N773UA is at SFO; N216UA is at PEK -- the first of the 14 mods to be undertaken along with scheduled heavy maintenance.
Thanks very much for these updates. I was wondering what was going on. Good to know that the conversions are continuing.
So at the rate UA is going, by when might we reasonably expect that all 777s (including those being changed during heavy maintenance) will be converted?
Based on what I am reading here, it appears that 777 upgrades are being continued and Suitedreams.united.com has not been updated. It has been showing 8 out of 46 777s completed for many months now. I was getting worried that Smisek decided not to continue with this.
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Based on what I am reading here, it appears that 777 upgrades are being continued and Suitedreams.united.com has not been updated. It has been showing 8 out of 46 777s completed for many months now. I was getting worried that Smisek decided not to continue with this.
The suitedreams sits has also been slow to update. When UA announced that the 777s were going in for the reconfig, it took them a long time to upload seatmaps or show that some aircraft had been upgraded.
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Has anyone flown a new config 777 out of SEA. On a lark I checked ualcargo and it shows 77Q but united.com shows the old seatmap. Am I missing something or did I luck out for Monday's flight?
I am in the same situation - United.com's seatmap shows the old config, but Unitedcargo.com shows the 77Q plane. Which should I trust? (Flight is tomorrow)
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I am in the same situation - United.com's seatmap shows the old config, but Unitedcargo.com shows the 77Q plane. Which should I trust? (Flight is tomorrow)
Personally, I'd trust UAL Cargo. .bomb is known to take a long time to update for an aircraft swap. In some cases, it may happen only hours before the flight departs.
Personally, I'd trust UAL Cargo. .bomb is known to take a long time to update for an aircraft swap. In some cases, it may happen only hours before the flight departs.
In that case, I wonder how they're going to fix the seating. There is a pretty big difference between the two seatmaps in C. Rows 8-15 on the old seat map, rows 6-10 on the new seat map.
Personally, I'd trust UAL Cargo. .bomb is known to take a long time to update for an aircraft swap. In some cases, it may happen only hours before the flight departs.
I am at the airport now, and what do you know, UAL Cargo was right. Not even the check-in agents knew that the equipment changed until we had to wait for the system to update with the new seat maps.
Unfortunately, they didn't have any aisle seats free in the 2-4-2 configuration so I am stuck with a window in C.
