Originally Posted by
KeepItReal
Not to discredit what UA is doing with Polaris, because it is light years ahead of what they have now, but DL leapfrogged right over Polaris by announcing the business class suite with full closure door. Now, I think in retrospect, that's what UA should have done with Polaris to slam the door shut on both DL and AA when it comes to the premium cabin. However, UA is now locked into the Polaris seat that is coming out on the 77W. You wont see a full business class suite with door anytime soon and I bet Oscar wishes they thought of that idea first.
The 767's really shouldn't get them as someone above mentioned, its a waste of CAPEX, a large percentage of the UA 767 fleet is very long in the tooth and will be retired soon anyway. They have the flat beds so UA will just have to live with that until the 767s get replaced.
So, the problem UA is going to have is having to many different cabins spread out amongst their wide body fleet. And for the foreseeable future, a very small percentage of UA's international planes will have 1-2-1 flatbed seating. That in and of itself still puts them at a huge disadvantage. Frequent fliers aren't going to know what to expect. DL you know if your flying on a widebody, your getting 1-2-1 flatbed seating.
Despite what UA's seat map may misrepresent, the new C seat cabins are not 1-2-1 but still 2-4-2 and bear no comparison with DL/AA's (and dozens of other airlines') true 1-2-1 arrangements. UA may have addressed the "all aisle" access issue but it's still a high density update of the same seat arrangement used by OZ and NH for many years (among others), or BA in its current and future incarnations.