Originally Posted by
Wilco_FT
764s are not dedicated to specific routes. They normally start showing up as being assigned to flights about 1 week ahead of the flight. Unfortunatley, they also change frequently in those 7 days so it is hard to know until the day of whick 764 will fly the route that day.
With these PMCO birds flying routes from HNL to DEN, IAH, IAD, and EWR (twice as many as before with just EWR and IAH), is there any likelihood they will end up on routes from HNL? I don't quite understand how they could be utilizing them for twice as many routes unless they managed to evenly align their utilization on extra routes to compensate for the fact that they no longer fly HNL-GUM-NRT. Any info on this?
Also, will UA leave the former electric barcalounger chairs on the domestic versions or eventually transition to flatbeds? Those westbound EWR/IAD-HNL flights are longer than eastbound flights from NRT to the west coast!