Originally Posted by
mduell
PMCO had them pretty regularly IAH-EWR/vv, PMUA had some like SFO-ORD or LAX-IAD, but now that they're crossfleeting more and with the 788 basing/flying mismatching it seems like there's more than there have been in the last couple years.
UA announced a few months ago they would be upgauging. This meant bigger regionals and regional to mainline, but also some mainline upgauging. For example when VX entered the ORD-SFO/LAX market UA flooded with hourly flights. It's just not necessary to fly 14 narrow bodies when 2 or 3 of them can be rolled into 1 widebody. ORDSFO has already seen daily 777 and double daily some days for several months now. ORDIAH has generally had 767 and so has ORDEWR. I don't think we'll see a return to the 2000's when I flew 747 IAD-ORD and 777 SEA-DEN but they will be adding more in the coming months.