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Old May 11, 2013, 10:05 am
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UA 1885 11 MAY 2013 -- what type of flight is this?
Anyone have any insight into what's up with this flight? It's a 738 headed from PWM to MSN, continuing on to San Salvador. PWM and MSN have minimal operations and no scheduled mainline service from UA, so I'm wondering how this thing will get catered, why/how many people are actually flying these routes, etc. Thanks in advance for any knowledge or suggestions.
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Old May 11, 2013, 10:11 am
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Probably a charter of some type. As for catering, you'd be surprised what they can cater on private charters.
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Old May 11, 2013, 1:15 pm
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I wish that this was a regular flight. It would be quite literally perfect for me.
Number seems too low to be a charter though I could be wrong.
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Old May 11, 2013, 1:41 pm
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Originally Posted by WIRunner
I wish that this was a regular flight. It would be quite literally perfect for me.
Number seems too low to be a charter though I could be wrong.
18xxs are not standard flight numbers

Code:
1 - 1299 United Airlines
1340 - 1344 ExpressJet-Extra Section
1368 - 1369 Colgan Air - Extra Section
1400 - 1744 United Airlines
1745 - 1764 Extra Sections
1900 - 2299 US Airways Express Codeshare
2300 - 3249 US Airways Codeshare
.....
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Old May 11, 2013, 1:45 pm
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Charter flight.
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Old May 11, 2013, 2:13 pm
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Originally Posted by WIRunner
I wish that this was a regular flight. It would be quite literally perfect for me.
Number seems too low to be a charter though I could be wrong.
I wouldn't associate the seat map with how full the flight actually was.
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Old May 11, 2013, 2:48 pm
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Aircraft flew inbound from ORD early this morning as UA 1893.
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Old May 11, 2013, 2:59 pm
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Originally Posted by WIRunner
I wish that this was a regular flight. It would be quite literally perfect for me.
Number seems too low to be a charter though I could be wrong.
Originally Posted by njcommodore
I wouldn't associate the seat map with how full the flight actually was.


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Old May 11, 2013, 3:16 pm
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It must be a UA conspiracy...
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Old May 11, 2013, 3:21 pm
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Originally Posted by WIRunner
Number seems too low to be a charter though I could be wrong.
Originally Posted by njcommodore
I wouldn't associate the seat map with how full the flight actually was.
Originally Posted by EmailKid


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Originally Posted by MatthewLAX
It must be a UA conspiracy...
Or me misreading WIRunner's post, thinking "number seems too low" was about the passengers. On the seat map there were about 6 or 7 seats "occupied".
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Old May 11, 2013, 4:23 pm
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Originally Posted by njcommodore
Or me misreading WIRunner's post, thinking "number seems too low" was about the passengers. On the seat map there were about 6 or 7 seats "occupied".
Ah, OK, thanks for the clarification

FWIW, seatmaps showed wide open except the usual blocked 7 C & D for me.

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Old May 11, 2013, 7:47 pm
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Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
18xxs are not standard flight numbers

Code:
1 - 1299 United Airlines
1340 - 1344 ExpressJet-Extra Section
1368 - 1369 Colgan Air - Extra Section
1400 - 1744 United Airlines
1745 - 1764 Extra Sections
1900 - 2299 US Airways Express Codeshare
2300 - 3249 US Airways Codeshare
.....
For some reason I was thinking 9XXX flights were the charters. I swore at one point I was on an 18XX flight.

Anywho, I can only wish that UA flew PWM-MSN regularly, it would be worth the 2hr drive for me.
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Old May 11, 2013, 8:24 pm
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Originally Posted by WIRunner
For some reason I was thinking 9XXX flights were the charters. I swore at one point I was on an 18XX flight. .../
these number ranges have changed in the past year
as for 9XXX
Code:
8715 - 9589 Lufthansa Airlines
9590 - 9639 TAP-Air Portugal
9640 - 9739 ANA-All Nippon
9740 - 9759 UA Extra Section
9760 - 9811 Swiss
9812 - 9814 CO/UA Express Extra Section/RP
9815 - 9834 Jet Airways
9835 - 9854 Aegean Air
9855 - 9868 Egypt Air
9883 - 9899 EVA Air
9900 - 9998 Brussels Airlines
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