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Old Apr 20, 2026 | 6:10 pm
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Originally Posted by hikouki
Are these 789s going to continue doing domestic runs beyond April and throughout the year?
It remains to be seen. Based on what appears to have been teething problems with N61101, perhaps newly inducted aircraft will be rotated to Houston and the east coast for a few weeks. I imagine they’ll be quickly deployed on international routes. It seems the London from SFO will be next followed by Sydney.

It turns out that N81105 had its third test run earlier today over South Carolina. I expect delivery to be imminent. With five new aircraft, United should have enough to manage two daily flights to SIN and a flight to LHR.

I see that N51104 has been sitting at SFO since Saturday. N61101 is assigned to UA 1 on the 22nd. Assuming it too has teething problems, it looks as if N61103 may perform UA 1 on Thursday.
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