The United Airlines Fleet
 

Hello Fellow FlyerTalkers!

I have created this thread for those of you who would like to track the United Airlines fleet upgrade process: IFE, seat upgrades, class upgrades, E+ being added to PMCO aircraft, aircraft painting or anything related to the United and Continental fleet, this is the right thread! I have created a website to track it in an easier format. I will update it on weekends and on Wed or Thursdays, and to see what I updated can be found on the Welcome Page.

https://sites.google.com/site/unitedfleetsite/home

Sit back, relax and enjoy the test flight!

FOR any comments, suggestions, errors or questions please leave them on this thread and I will reply ASAP.
THANKS!

Thanks!

What kind of Y is going into the UA 763 domestic? BF in front, what kind of Y in the back? Specifically IFE and seat type?

For AVOD, in a perfect world they would take CO's greater content and UA's far superior interface, but that would mean admitting something of PMUA was superior, so it's probably not going to fly. ;)

I am not sure about the domestic seats. Any flyer talkers know?

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Any information on the timeline for the 762 retirements?

From the fleet plan 3 will be retired in the 2 quarter and two others will be retired in the 4 quarter of this year. Right now there are only 8. I am not sure which one's will be retired first.

I'm assuming the Coming Soon on 738's just means you haven't compiled the data yet? Thanks so much for everything else, maybe we can merge this with the repaint thread too?

No problem. If you have any questions please let me know.

Right: I have to figure out which 737-800's have which type of IFE. Some have DirectTv, but some don't have any. I will get that fixed by Saturday. I will post the repaint information in the first post. Great Idea!

I can't recall the UA interface from my SFO-SYD flight in October, but doesn't the main page look similar to this photo of the IFE on the CO 764 with flatbed seats?

http://www.myaviation.net/search/pho...890&size=large

Regardless, I assume that they will be standardizing this across the fleet soon anyway so hopefully they do go with the best approach.

Nice thread.

Don't forget to update the wiki with the paint progress.

Maybe it would be nice to also track the E+ conversions on the wiki?

http://www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index...Fleet_%28UA%29
http://www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index...Fleet_%28UA%29
http://www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index...sions_%28UA%29

No, that's the CO interface. With it, if you leave a movie to check out the air show (or anything else), when you return you have to start the movie from scratch and fast-forward 5 minutes. It doesn't tell you how long the movie is, nor at what point you are within the movie.

Stylistically too, just feels a bit lacking and navigates clunkily, though that's more of an IMO.

Ahh, I do remember this now. On CO, I guess I have never checked out the airshow while watching a movie before. Well, hopefully they do change the software interface to model more of the UA interface. I can't imagine that would take that much effort to do, but I am far from an IT guy.

Here is the IFE type for the 737-800s

Aircraft #s 202-226, 228-231, 233-234, 237-239, 241-245, 247-248, 250-259, 278-299, 501-518 & 530 have DTV Configuration will go from 16F/144Y to 16F/48W/90Y

Aircraft #s 201, 227, 232, 235, 236, 240, 246, 249 are the GUM based 738s and have drop down screens every few rows. Configuration will go from 14F/141Y to 14F/48W/86Y

Aircraft #s 260-277 are the Mid-Cabin Lav 738s and have drop down screens as well. Note that the mid-cabin lav birds will be getting the mid-cabin lav removed as well as the aux galley at 2R removed. One of the rear lavatories will be shifted over to where the aux galley is now, and a dual FA jumpseat will be attached to lavatory at 2R so 2 extra FA jumpseats will be onboard this will
happen during the E+ refits and DTV installs. Configuration will go from 20F/132Y to 16F/48W/90Y

Why is the CO retrojet considered "repainted"? Given the plans to repaint the fleet, it still says Continental.