Originally Posted by autobahnal

Random fleet utilization q -- Does anyone know if the 4 remaining non-Polaris 789s are typically assigned to certain routes for this summer? Or are they subbing them in on a daily basis for certain flights that originally sold Polaris/PP (and then shuffling/downgrading lots of folks)?

The reason I ask is that I'm booking a SYD trip for a couple of weeks from now, and I'd rather do LAX-SYD instead of SFO-SYD. The LAX flight is on the 789 and sold with Polaris/PP but I noticed even just over the past week it's subbed to one of the non-retrofitted 789s 4 times. I'm not sure if that's a fluke or what (I don't pay for a service that gives me historical tail numbers further back), but if the LAX flight is especially likely to be subbed I would absolutely switch to SFO for the guaranteed Polaris on the 773 instead.

Thanks for any insights!