Originally Posted by
findark
Yeah, I was mostly thinking take a route with very frequent narrowbody service and consolidate some of the turns to widebodies which might be free from the current lull in international travel based on season.
Obviously this isn't actually workable as I'm sure United ops has already thought of it, done the math, and rejected it.
This may be a short term/long term thing -- remember UA implemented the current reductions with little (48 hours?) notice and all of the down-line effects any change has. Putting an aircraft on a route is one thing but you have to crew it (I beleive most if not all FAs are certified on most/every aircraft type so that could be a relatively simple "need more of them" problem, on the other hand if you had a route you had planned on flying with a 737-700 those pilots can't fly a theoretical 767/777/787 so you have to find them somewhere and make sure they're in position and legal to operate the flights that they were originally scheduled to operat, or replace them, and then replace them, and then replace them...
IF the hope is a couple days of the nations infrastructure grinding to a halt gets the right people to wake up that's a lot of disruption for a problem that theoretically "goes away". Which I think may be part of the reason why UA has also only announced changes through Sunday.