Originally Posted by
mherdeg
I thought the story was that the first 787s the airline would take delivery of were from a CO order, where the 36J configuration was a given. (That story always seemed a little holey to me -- couldn't they change the order if they really wanted to invest in an international F product?)
Currently, lead time to order first and business class seats is about 24 months. Even if UA wanted to equip 787s with F seats, there hasn't wouldn't have been enough time to get those seats in the earlier deliveries previously ordered by CO. These aircraft have to come in the configuration previously decided by CO, except for minor changes like E+.