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Old May 18, 2016, 1:41 pm
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Originally Posted by BlueHorseShoe2000
I have not seen this posted elsewhere, but United is finally putting mainline aircraft back in the Milwaukee (MKE) market ^^^

Starting 9/7/16, MKE-DEN will be converted from 4x daily CRJ to 2x daily A319. Glad to actually see this happen as this route was torture on the CRJ-200.

Also, beginning 10/18/16 the early afternoon ORD-MKE flight will be up-gauged to a 737-700.

I think it has been 15 years since United last operated mainline planes in MKE.
Nice to hear! I have avoided the DEN-MKE segments on CRJ-200's and instead chose to connect in ORD, even last week!
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