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Mar 9, 2016 | 3:45 pm

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Originally Posted by UA Insider

Hi everyone,

A few of you have already noted, we are temporarily introducing a 3-cabin B777-200 on our premium service “p.s.” flights between New York/Newark (EWR) and both Los Angeles (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO). This change is effective March 29 through September 8, 2016 in both directions, on both EWR-LAX and EWR-SFO. All other flights in these markets are unaffected and will continue to be operated by 2-cabin aircraft.

We will sell these flights as 2-cabin flights to be consistent with other p.s. flights. In the Global First cabin, we will offering BusinessFirst onboard service and have adjusted first class inventory to zero. BusinessFirst customers will not be able to select seats in the Global First cabin. Instead, we will be proactively upgrading select customers into those seats in advance of departure, with our compliments, and will not collect any upgrade instruments or require additional miles/co-pay.

Thanks, and please let us know if you have any questions.

-UA Insider

This seems like it will require pretty active management to give these CPUs from J to GF - as UA will want to make sure it is able to sell all 48 seats (8 GF + 40 BF). Is it possible that these CPUs will default to the same methodology that applies to regular CPUs, or will this be more of the 'surprise and delight' kind of initiative?

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