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Old Feb 6, 2025 | 9:22 am
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Originally Posted by JimInOhio
Great story. Separately, it’s usually mentioned that a 752 can’t do a route like ORD-EDI on a year round basis.
As the 752s start to age out of the fleet (it feels like a minor miracle UA is still flying them especially with how long ago the pmUA 752s were purged from the fleet -- though I know there were specific reasons for those retirements) I think that will be less of a factor and we'll see ships like the 7M9 and 321 deployed on those long-but-not-too-long and thin-but-not-too-thin routes. That is, of course, on UA actually getting aircraft delivered.
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