uastarflyer

not everyone carries one on every flight. Having option is always better.

WiFi and streaming could have been added without removing the free audio and movie. They are doing this on the 747 for example (though very slowly on the wifi and nil to date on streaming)

I like the live demos especially on widebody Int'l flights. You know who can't make a cameo which is another plus.

CO_Nonrev_elite

To Continental's credit, once they decided to internationalize the 757 fleet, and flat bed the 764 and 777 fleet, they motored through it, and completed them. I've not seen this from the UA side of things yet

LASUA1K

Ok is it me or is the wrong aircraft getting new seats? The 737's should get new seats. Leave the Airbii alone!! Nothing is wrong with them. An example, just flew ord-lga-ord. ORd-LGA, 737-800 bulkhead, my ... hurt the entire day and the person in the center seat was on top of me, A320 Aisle E-, felt more spacious and seat was soo much more comfortable. Why are we always fixing old UA stuff and not fixing old CO stuff? I really don't get it. I love channel 9, I dont want to ser it leave

Again, UA, not everything UA was bad, change those awful 737 seats and change the color as the cabin on those 737's look like they are from the 80's while those "old" airbus, feel so fresh.

WineCountryUA

It was suggested in earlier threads the Airbii have a low contribution margin / profit margin compared to the other narrow bodies. Hence the need to enhance the revenues / contribution margin. Improving this is far more important to UA.

mgcsinc

Really? And they changed the interior lighting?

uastarflyer

Since 10/1/2010 they are the same, run by CO's CEO. Where is that "motoring" on the 747 power and streaming updates?

So far they have only been motorboating on that.

catocony

I'm trying my best to keep my business at UA, but out of IAD, it seems to be nothing but 737s, and I find them to be so uncomfortable to fly, I've made connecting flights in ORD instead of flying non-stop.

The main thing with this new seats is, what is the overall seat pitch, and what is the width? It sounds like BS on the knee-room claims, so I'll assume that noses will be closer to the back of the head of the person in front of you then there is now, even in E+. But, are they narrowing the seats in any way?

I agree with the posts, the Airbuses are generally pretty comfortable to fly. I don't watch the video, but I like to listen to channel 9 while reading. What I especially like is that I'm not sitting next to someone who leaves their little personal video on all flight, replaying the same lame ads and "free content" for X hours.

A real step up would be to put the reconfigured 777 seats and A/V system on the Airbus units.

JOSECONLSCREW28

He's talking about wifi only equipped aircraft and ones that have had the larger OHB installed. The first aircraft with new seats, extra row, minus the LCD screens goes into service next week.

mgcsinc

He seemed to think he was talking about something more

npei

Yes I was referring specifically to the reconfig A319 /320.
But like I said, I flew on 4/23 sjc-iah the new reconfig A320 (a few reconfig aircraft actually started flying limited routes apparently last week April before the general announcement by UA Insider May 9). My reconfig flight A320 plane was spanking new just finished, minus the Wifi-streaming video (was not ready)

Baze

But then they would lose out on the added row of seats revenue. This is not about our comfort, it is all about generating revenue, why give something away for free when they can make a change and charge for it. Why leave something that is comfortable when the can add a row of seats and generate more revenue. In the famous words of Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street (can't remember the characters name) "Greed is Good" COdbaUS is all about revenue, thy could care less about passengers. If they could figure out a way to generate revenue without passenger they would be the happiest company on earth. But they need passengers to generate that revenue and until they figure out how to make us happy and generate revenue they will continue to lose money and chase passengers away. Being the only major to lose money in the first quarter I am surprised the stockholder are not saying anything. But they won't until the stock price starts to decline which I feel is not too far away. Ok, rant off.

LASUA1K

Are you sure you didn't fly US Air? They have some new 321's which are very comfortable inside. UA has no 321's.

aacharya

Not sure "everybody" does but a large segment that cares about IFE will have one. Those that don't still carry their books.

Remember - these planes will be around for a good part of this decade. We should be thinking "what will people be doing wrt IFE in five years". Technology certainly will be much more entrenched in the flying public then.

JOSECONLSCREW28

But did it have the new seats? That's how you can tell. However I know of only one that has gone in so far to receive the new seats believe that is Tail #4668 and that isn't due to return to service until next week.

npei

- strike that, it was actually UA flight 1658 operated by UA metal on reconfig A320 (it was equip swap for originally scheduled 737-900)