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Jun 6, 2014 | 7:25 am

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Originally Posted by halls120

[...] flying dark RJs (and mainline birds) on major domestic routes while the competition offers mainline flights on heavy routes and when they offer RJs, they have F, WiFi, and real food up front.

Anyone remember when ExPlus was actually an industry-leading regional product by UA? Back when they actually were leading in anything other than number of DOT complaints?

I recall that at the time, not only had UA added F and E+ to RJs (and box meals, which although box meals were more than anyone else was offering), but they were talking about putting IFE in RJs.

Fast forward to today, and it seems like UA is using RJs on longer and longer routes, with more and more of them lacking any E+ or F (too many CRJ200s and E145s on 1000+ mile routes!), with no wifi or hot food on any of their RJ products.

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