No / very limited E+???
 

LAS - EWR today in a 737-800. Only the exit rows were E+. Total of 12 seats. Since there were 24 names not cleared for upgrades, that means there were a whole lot of silvers and golds without E+.

How could I have know this at the time of booking so I could have avoided a non E+ plane? Even Seat Guru (when I was trying to select my seat) thought it was an E+ config.

Thank you,
BJFly

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Look at the seat map and select seats before purchasing? Seems pretty simple to me!

Tim

during the process of adding E+ to sCO aircraft, it came be a guessing game until all mainline aircraft are modified. Once you get within in a few days of travel, the actual aircraft is tentatively selected (with last minute changes possible). Guess you could try to avoid any aircraft type not yet 100% converted.

except that is not reliable either way. (for aircraft type still in the conversion process)

Not that it will make a huge difference, but aren't there 6 bulkhead E+ also, making it a total of 18? (Rows 7, 20, and 21).

How many planes still don't offer a "normal" sized E+ cabin this long after the merger?

It tracked here The United Airlines Fleet Website

of the sCO fleet, the 738 and 739 are the least complete and about 2/3s of them are done. The 735, 737 (non-Guam versions), 753, 763, 772, .... are mostly done.

Did you take a connecting flight? I don't see a 737-800 LAS-EWR nonstop on 3/13 or 3/12; do I have the wrong day? According to the seat maps for Wed's nonstops, the only plane that wasn't E+ config was at 6am, UA1111 which was a 737-900.

There's always a possibility of an a/c swap but in general you could look for any 757-200 (there were several of those nonstop on 3/13) or an A319/A320 (didn't see any of these nonstop for 3/12 or 3/13)

No / very limited E+???
 

It was the non stop 6am, so I guess I had the exact plane model wrong. Sorry.

UA announced that it would take about a year to complete the switchover and the announcement was made last June. The update looks as though it's progressing apace. Remember, E+ is actually a hard product swap and needs to be FAA certified, not just a matter of boarding a new menu item.

Golds were free to select E+ at time of booking. Silver's likely SOL on this configuration because they can't select E+ until T-24. But, that's not unfair.

ECONOMY PLUS loses reserved seating capacity!
 

I was checking out seating availability for Monday July 8, flight UA1270. For the SEA-ANC leg, leaving SEA at 12:47 pm, rows 8-15 show for sale as Economy seating! These are normally reserved E+ seating. This is especially troubling since this is a Monday flight on a tourist-heavy route in July, which is high season for visiting Alaska!

Only 2 seats show for E+! Has anyone noticed reduced E+ reserved capacity on other flights?


What is happening here? Where is all the E+ seating? How will Premier Silvers get E+ seating at checkin time?

Is this the beginning of another way UA is possibly continuing to reduce benefits for Premier members?

Take a deep breath. That flight will be operated on a/c #3451, a 737-900 with no E+ seating.

Happily, though, the seats toward the front of the plane are reserved for premiers, including Silvers. But they're not E+.

Hard to sell E+ on a plane that doesn't have it...

Thanks mgcsinc for your response. Would you mind informing me where did you get the information for the a/c #3451 to know that it does not have E+ seating? Thanks

Umm, United Fleet Status?

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

But why not go with your original post/conspiracy theory, in bold and in all red to boot? FT (at least this forum) has really gone downhill, with folks posting without a lick of research - and everything being linked to a status downgrade for Premiers.

The folks who maintain the fleet page at http://sites.google.com/site/unitedfleetsite/ do a great job — navigate to United Mainline Fleet ==>> Boeing 737-900 ===> and filter down to AIRCRAFT = 3451.

You can get the ship number for your flight from the united.com "flight status" page or from the mobile.united.com status page — both will say what aircraft number is assigned to operate your flight.