Aug 13, 2013, 10:29 am
Last edit by: aacharya
The Fleet Status site is:
https://sites.google.com/site/unitedfleetsite/
At the site, you can find information about the interior features, livery, etc., for every plane in United's fleet.
To determine which plane your flight will be on go to mobile.united.com and then click on flight status. Put in the flight number for your flight and just have it use today's date (occasionally it'll say flight not operated on this date in which case just choose one of the other 3 dates it lists). In the address bar you'll see something like this:
mobile.united.com/FlightStatus/FlightDetails?carrierCode=UA&flightNumber=1205&fli ghtDate=9%2F22%2F2013&origin=EWR&destination=SFO
Just change the flight date to match the day of your scheduled flight and then change the origin / destination if necessary. Once you do that look in the details tab under aircraft # and if they have assigned a plane it'll say something like #3506 and the type of plane. Once you know that go to the United Fleet website listed above and cross-reference the four digit number against the "aircraft" column under the appropriate aircraft type.
Keep in mind that things change as they get closer and sometimes either they won't have assigned an aircraft yet or it'll be assigned #0 if it's a few days away and they are anticipating aircraft movement (e.g. putting a new/converted p.s. plane entering into service).
https://sites.google.com/site/unitedfleetsite/
At the site, you can find information about the interior features, livery, etc., for every plane in United's fleet.
To determine which plane your flight will be on go to mobile.united.com and then click on flight status. Put in the flight number for your flight and just have it use today's date (occasionally it'll say flight not operated on this date in which case just choose one of the other 3 dates it lists). In the address bar you'll see something like this:
mobile.united.com/FlightStatus/FlightDetails?carrierCode=UA&flightNumber=1205&fli ghtDate=9%2F22%2F2013&origin=EWR&destination=SFO
Just change the flight date to match the day of your scheduled flight and then change the origin / destination if necessary. Once you do that look in the details tab under aircraft # and if they have assigned a plane it'll say something like #3506 and the type of plane. Once you know that go to the United Fleet website listed above and cross-reference the four digit number against the "aircraft" column under the appropriate aircraft type.
Keep in mind that things change as they get closer and sometimes either they won't have assigned an aircraft yet or it'll be assigned #0 if it's a few days away and they are anticipating aircraft movement (e.g. putting a new/converted p.s. plane entering into service).
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Mar 23, 2013, 3:58 pm
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There is no way to find out your aircraft registration/tail # until a few days prior to your flight and even that can change at the last minute. When you check your flight status on united.com, it will tell you the tail #, then you can go to the fleet tracking site for example and look up the registration there.
Thanks for the quick response JOSECONLSCREW28. And when you say tail number, do you mean "aircraft #"? For example, I just did a quick test using the Flight Status and Info feature for one of yesterday's flights, and for the flight I checked, it displayed "Aircraft: Boeing 767-400ER aircraft #3064."
Mar 23, 2013, 4:08 pm
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Thanks for the quick response JOSECONLSCREW28. And when you say tail number, do you mean "aircraft #"? For example, I just did a quick test using the Flight Status and Info feature for one of yesterday's flights, and for the flight I checked, it displayed "Aircraft: Boeing 767-400ER aircraft #3064."
Mar 23, 2013, 6:40 pm
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HNL2017:
Thanks for the compliment.
United.com and mobile United sites show the aircraft number. You can search up to 3 days early, but things can change. The number displayed is the fleet number, which includes part of the N number. If you look at the fleet pages, you'll see the N Numbers and Fleet Numbers. United.com will show the fleet number.
Fleet numbers starting with a the number "3" are sCO aircraft. The balance of the fleet number is the last three digits of the N Number and indicates the type.
Mainline Fleet not starting with a "3" are sUA aircraft. The first 2 numbers refer to the aircraft type and configuration - the last 2 numbers are the two number preceding the UA in the N Number.
Hope it helps.
https://sites.google.com/site/united...fleet-tracking
73NG Maint:
738 N16217 exited INT 6856/23Mar
739 N79402 entered INT 6855/23Mar
763ER Maint:
N648UA sked 6851&6866/24Mar SFO-HNL-HKG (3 class aircraft)
With the departure of N532UA, the mainline fleet stands at 351 PsCO and 351 sUA units. This includes the grounded 787s and potentially a sCO 735 and maybe sUA 752 that may be exiting the fleet.
https://sites.google.com/site/united...total-upgrades
Thanks for the compliment.
United.com and mobile United sites show the aircraft number. You can search up to 3 days early, but things can change. The number displayed is the fleet number, which includes part of the N number. If you look at the fleet pages, you'll see the N Numbers and Fleet Numbers. United.com will show the fleet number.
Fleet numbers starting with a the number "3" are sCO aircraft. The balance of the fleet number is the last three digits of the N Number and indicates the type.
Mainline Fleet not starting with a "3" are sUA aircraft. The first 2 numbers refer to the aircraft type and configuration - the last 2 numbers are the two number preceding the UA in the N Number.
Hope it helps.
https://sites.google.com/site/united...fleet-tracking
73NG Maint:
738 N16217 exited INT 6856/23Mar
739 N79402 entered INT 6855/23Mar
763ER Maint:
N648UA sked 6851&6866/24Mar SFO-HNL-HKG (3 class aircraft)
With the departure of N532UA, the mainline fleet stands at 351 PsCO and 351 sUA units. This includes the grounded 787s and potentially a sCO 735 and maybe sUA 752 that may be exiting the fleet.
https://sites.google.com/site/united...total-upgrades
Mar 23, 2013, 6:47 pm
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Mar 23, 2013, 6:55 pm
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It was always about the same post-2008 sUA 737 retirements. RPM split was about 60% UA 40% CO before the merger, plane count was almost even too.
Mar 25, 2013, 7:27 pm
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The actual seat count of the 351 aircraft per subsiderary is
sCO 53,049, average 151.1 seats
sUA 65,444. average 186.5 seats
763ER maint:
N648UA en route 6851 & 6866/24Mar SFO-HNL-HKG
N647UA sked to exit HKG 6857/26Mar
752 Maint:
N563UA sked to exit MCN 6850/25Mar
N520UA sked to enter MCN 6849/25Mar
772 maint:
N78009 sked to exit HKG 116/26Mar
N78005 looks like it entered HKG maint after flight 117/24Mar
sUA 752 exit list:
A FedEx/UA 752 sale thread on ANet states UA 752 fleet exit dates for 2012:
3/13 508UA
4/13 527UA
5/13 506UA
7/13 573UA, 574UA
8/13 503UA, 507UA, 511UA, 515UA, 519UA, 554UA, 555UA
9/13 557UA, 560UA
11/13 525UA, 533UA
12/13 509UA, 544UA
The thread noted that beginning in Sept, 739ER units will be going into the sUA fleet. This makes sense as 735s are to be replaced by the next new 739ER, then sUA752s will be replaced by 739ERs.
The 739ERs are to still be designated 737-924ER. Let's hope that specific flights may be operated by 739ER units, but that sUA crews will not be tied to those exact aircraft units. Does anyone see this an a potential operational performance issue?
sCO 53,049, average 151.1 seats
sUA 65,444. average 186.5 seats
763ER maint:
N648UA en route 6851 & 6866/24Mar SFO-HNL-HKG
N647UA sked to exit HKG 6857/26Mar
752 Maint:
N563UA sked to exit MCN 6850/25Mar
N520UA sked to enter MCN 6849/25Mar
772 maint:
N78009 sked to exit HKG 116/26Mar
N78005 looks like it entered HKG maint after flight 117/24Mar
sUA 752 exit list:
A FedEx/UA 752 sale thread on ANet states UA 752 fleet exit dates for 2012:
3/13 508UA
4/13 527UA
5/13 506UA
7/13 573UA, 574UA
8/13 503UA, 507UA, 511UA, 515UA, 519UA, 554UA, 555UA
9/13 557UA, 560UA
11/13 525UA, 533UA
12/13 509UA, 544UA
The thread noted that beginning in Sept, 739ER units will be going into the sUA fleet. This makes sense as 735s are to be replaced by the next new 739ER, then sUA752s will be replaced by 739ERs.
The 739ERs are to still be designated 737-924ER. Let's hope that specific flights may be operated by 739ER units, but that sUA crews will not be tied to those exact aircraft units. Does anyone see this an a potential operational performance issue?
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Mar 25, 2013, 8:29 pm
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Maybe if management got busy and made UA one airline instead of the current configuration, none of this would matter.
to the -22 designation going away.
Mar 25, 2013, 8:49 pm
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Well, since the sCO aircraft still have "operated by Continental" painted under the registration number, wouldn't the 739s assigned to sUA have to be operated only by sUA pilots?
Maybe if management got busy and made UA one airline instead of the current configuration, none of this would matter.
to the -22 designation going away.
Maybe if management got busy and made UA one airline instead of the current configuration, none of this would matter.
to the -22 designation going away.
Mar 25, 2013, 8:50 pm
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They approved a joint contract, and are now working on the seniority list.. It will likely be a long time before UA and CO crews begin to mix (fortunately..)
Mar 25, 2013, 8:52 pm
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Well, since the sCO aircraft still have "operated by Continental" painted under the registration number, wouldn't the 739s assigned to sUA have to be operated only by sUA pilots?
Maybe if management got busy and made UA one airline instead of the current configuration, none of this would matter.
to the -22 designation going away.
Maybe if management got busy and made UA one airline instead of the current configuration, none of this would matter.
to the -22 designation going away.Regardless, as far as pilots are concerned, an integrated seniority list is likely sometime late summer and joint scheduling would be a possibility not too long after that.
When joint scheduling occurs, then sUA and sCO will no longer be relevant.
Mar 25, 2013, 9:08 pm
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Mar 25, 2013, 9:13 pm
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Depends on the outcome of the FA contract talks. I'm pretty sure they won't do an integrated bidding system for pilots only but I don't have any insider information.
From a contract pov, however, they can integrate bidding as soon as the ALPA seniority list integration finishes.
From a contract pov, however, they can integrate bidding as soon as the ALPA seniority list integration finishes.
Mar 25, 2013, 9:17 pm
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Well when the time comes for sCO FAs and sUA FA's to work together then they will schedule them on flights dependent on base. But there's lots roadblocks with this. For example coming to terms with a single contract and seniority list, weather or not to keep bases separate. sCO FAs based in EWR & IAH are further subdivided into International (NTA & HTA)/Domestic (EWR & IAH)/Speaker (NLS & HOS), where as sUA FAs bases are integrated International/Domestic/Speaker.