Originally Posted by
ethanaviation
UA is repositioning N774UA from IAH today to serve STL-LAX - is it a charter? Strangely United.com is selling tickets to the general public....
Appears to just be a normal scheduled flight - just on a route UA doesn't normally fly. A number of people cleared the upgrade list into F, and a number of others cleared standby onto the flight.
Presumably there's something happening in the LA area that STL people wanted to be at over the next few days (or the reverse over the past few days) that was enough for UA to run a extra flight for the additional demand.