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Old Mar 2, 2026 | 2:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Longboater
From what I can tell from information leaked that the 77E fleet will be leaving SFO entirely and will serve out the rest of its useful years mostly at EWR/IAD. Already seeing some of that. This new High J 789 fleet will assist in this as it replaces existing 789s on UA's longest routes, where they no longer have to consider blocking seats or carrying little to no cargo. I listed in an earlier post of routes I speculated that will be flown by this aircraft in the future. Except for SFO/LAX-LHR and potentially another SFO-Europe route like SFO-ZRH, maybe that goes year-round, I would anticipate most of the routes to be flown by this aircraft to be longer than 6200 nm. I am not counting repositioning routes on IAD/EWR-LAX/SFO where this aircraft could be making an appearance.
There's definitely a difference between 777 and 787 Polaris, the former being slightly more spacious.

Good to have updated aircraft but the new Polaris pods may mean loss of space as well as inferior layout if you're used to odd row window seats on current Polaris.
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