Originally Posted by
dmurphynj
That's what made me stop and think; why would you call it out if you never planned to rotate Dreamliners through EWR?
Much of UA's maintenance is done at sites where they don't have any passenger traffic at all, and both the A350 and B787 are new, shiny planes.

While I think the 787-10 makes sense for East Coast operations, I don't think that's related to any maintenance planning.