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Old Feb 15, 2017, 8:43 pm
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Originally Posted by hirohito888
Not quite sure where you're getting the business seat numbers, but again, I did a rudimentary calculation, end of 2017:

763 - 35 in fleet x 30 seats = 1,050
764 - 16 in fleet x 39 seats = 624
772 - 55 in fleet flying international x 50 seats = 2,750
773 - 14 in fleet x 60 seats = 840
788 - 12 in fleet x 36 seats = 432
789 - ~22 in fleet x 48 seats = 1,056

Total: 6,752

Excluded 747 as all those will be retired by end of 2017 and excluded 752 because many are flying only domestic, p.s. and thin routes. Plus I highly doubt 752 will ever get any new Polaris seats so passenger should not be expecting any new seat.

These are the actual numbers. As for the comparison to multiple legs per day, you're comparing frequency to actual number of seats and that's not a fair or valid comparison. A 77W will inevitably fly only 1 flight a day because it's designed to fly for 15h+.

Instead, a better metric would be to compare the ASM of each seat on each type of aircraft in order to measure how much time and distance the seat is being utilized. That may be something that would support your argument. Feel free to crunch those numbers.
Are you stating that United will have all these aircraft(s) reconfigured by the end of the year?

If so, this is an impossible implementation schedule to maintain. UA said 788 and 789 aren't getting the seats and the 763 will be the only existing fleet type that will make headway (if they end up going through with it.)

BTW: I was on youtube a few weeks ago and it seems theres a video of a GRU-IAH on N663UA (1993 build) that looks to have got a retrofit without the winglets.

Is it possible some of these re-configurations already started and people aren't keeping track of them?
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