Good for us, not good for UA. Don't they have somewhere more productive to put this one?
Well when CO took over they said UA was stupid to be using international birds hub to hub. Since it was done by UA, they stopped it...
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LASUA1K
This is great news, but it looks like the 757's are slowly leaving.
This is probably a rotation flight, the flight comes on from SFO, in time for an FRA flight.
And UA did this, added a tag as (1) they had unused time on the AC, or (2) were rotating planes so they were in KSFO where UAs main maintenance base was.
Adding a domestic tag using an international aircraft is very economical if you can fill the plane. The CASM using a 772 or 763 is better than flying two (or three) A320/319/737s. I think after a while the CO folks looked around, someone said "why are we running 3 narrow bodies at the same time?" and actually figured out that what UA was doing made sense for their network, fleet, and maintenance locations.
CO was never good at fleet planning, had a small second tier network, and it has taken them a while to realize that they are no longer running "Air IAH/EWR"