Originally Posted by
matrixwalker2012
So, United 747s have some of the worst dispatch rates fleet wide [.....]
Not arguing, just asking- do they really have such a bad dispatch rate, recently?
Originally Posted by
tuolumne
I'm a big fan of the 744, and it pained me to see them sent out to China for heavy maintenance, and I'm also tired of Jeff whining about their unreliability. We get it, there was a problem, you admittedly addressed it, find your next excuse buddy. Nobody buys that the 744 fleet concentration to SFO is a significant contributor to the mess of the company. I'm sure he'd like to make it appear to be (given his seeming obsession in talking about them in every time he speaks).
I thought the fleet was moved to SFO because that's where UA had its 747 maintenance program based? Maybe some of the work was done in China? But at costs in Shanghai and Beijing these days (don't even consider HKG!
) maintenance in China would have been expensive.
When I first came back to UA a couple of years ago, the 747 were MX all the time. But until this last segment I had was delayed by MX on the return, I hadn't had a 747 flight affected by MX in over 30 segments (~15 months).