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Old Jan 1, 2014, 11:25 am
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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=415&flig htDate=9%2F15%2F2015&origin=JFK&destination=SFO

https://mobile.united.com/FlightStatus/FlightDetails?carrierCode=UA&flightNumber=415&flig htDate=9%2F15%2F2015&origin=JFK&destination=SFO

Just change the flight date to match the day of your scheduled flight and then change the origin / destination as 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.

You may also check the specific fleet variant of each flight at the United Cargo site under "Schedules & tracking". This data tends to be reliable starting 7 days in advance, but is always subject to change.

United Airlines Equipment (Aircraft) Codes (via JOSECONLSCREW28):

sCO
77Y - B777-200ER (Tail #s 001 - 022)
76P - B767-400ER (Tail #s 051 - 066)
78V - B787-8 (Tail #s 901 - 910, 912, 913)
78Z - B787-9 (Tail #s 950 - 951)
75B - B757-200 AVOD (Tail #s 101 - 141)
75C - B757-300 DirecTV (Tail #s 851 - 859)
75A - B757-300 Overhead IFE (Soon to be streaming content) (Tail #s 860 -871) (Tail #s 860 - 863, 865 have Personal Device Entertainment)
73V - B737-900ER (Tail #s 413 - 478)
73I - B737-900 (Tail #s 401 - 412)
73F - B737-800 DirecTV, Short Field Performance (Tail #s 501 - 518)
73T - B737-800 DirecTV (Tail #s 519 - 531)
73J - B737-800 DirecTV (Tail #s 202 - 226, 228 - 231, 233, 234, 237 - 239, 241 - 245, 247, 248, 250 - 259, 260, 267, 278 - 299.
(Tail #s 260 - 277 will be included here when installed with DirecTV)
73X - B737-800 Mid-Cabin Lav, Overhead IFE (Tail #s 261 - 266, 268 - 277) Will become 73J when installed with DirecTV and mid-cabin lav is removed.
Also known as "midlav" ships.
73M - B737-800 Guam, Overhead IFE (Tail #s 201, 227, 232, 235, 236, 240, 246, 249)
73A - B737-700 Mainland, DirecTV (Tail #s 701 - 719, 721 - 724, 726 - 733, 750)
73P - B737-700 Guam, Overhead IFE (Tail #s 720, 734 - 736)

sUA
19J - A319 (Old Configuration)
19S - A319 (New Configuration) (Slimline Seats)
20B - A320 (Old Configuration 12F/132Y)
20S - A320 (New Configuration 12F/138Y) (Slimline Seats)
20U - A320 (Old Configuration 12F/126Y)
37K - B737-900ER (Tail #s 811 - 848) (Slimline Seats)
47C - B747-400
57Q - B757-200 2-cabin (54xx Tail #s)
57U - B757-200 2-cabin (56xx Tail #s) (Overwater)
67I - B767-300 3-cabin (Tail #s 6441 - 6463) (11 aircraft to become 76E)
73B - B737-900ER (Tail #s 801 - 810)
75J - B757-200 ps (59xx & 53xx Tail #s)
76E - B767-300 2-cabin (Tail #s 6664 - 6677)
77A - B777-200 2-cabin (Tail #s 2510 - 2515) (Non Reconfigured)
77C - B777-200 2-cabin (Tail #s 2368, 2372 & 2379) (Reconfigured)
77D - B777-200 3-cabin (24xx Tail #s)
77H - B777-222 2-cabin (Tail #s 2510 - 2515) (Reconfigured)
77J - B777-200 3-cabin (Tail #s 2704, 2706, 2786, 2791, 2792, 2793, 2795, 2796, 2799)
77Q - B777-200 3-cabin (20xx & 28xx Tail #s)
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Old Feb 17, 2014, 7:59 pm
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Originally Posted by trust77
Hi Jose! Maybe the f/a base out of GUM is not trained on how to operate the system? That's what I concluded and just used my IPAD. I too at least thought the movie channels would be operable.
That possibly could be but the way to activate the system is right above their jumpseats at the forward entry door not all that really hard to figure out. Heck some of the sCMI F/As that crossed over to the sCO side figured out the system right away.
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Old Feb 18, 2014, 9:58 am
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Tail 5688 (N588UA) was ferried yesterday 2/17 as UA6854 JFK-MIA. p.s. configured bird. Any idea why?
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Old Feb 18, 2014, 11:18 am
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Originally Posted by weirdlyndon
Tail 5688 (N588UA) was ferried yesterday 2/17 as UA6854 JFK-MIA. p.s. configured bird. Any idea why?
It seems that the plane was on the ground for less than an hour, and returned to JFK as UA6855. Strange.

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Old Feb 18, 2014, 8:49 pm
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Yeah that was tail 5997. Wonder what these birds are/were doing in MIA.
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Old Feb 18, 2014, 10:41 pm
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My guess is a charter.
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Old Feb 18, 2014, 10:50 pm
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Originally Posted by Always Flyin
My guess is a charter.
Not a charter flight those are ferry flight #s not charter flights #s.
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Old Feb 19, 2014, 10:43 am
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Originally Posted by JOSECONLSCREW28
Not a charter flight those are ferry flight #s not charter flights #s.
So I guess 5688 is down in MIA for something, while 5997 was there, but has no been returned to service. Maybe maintenance? Or perhaps something to do with IFE or cabin outfitting?
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Old Feb 20, 2014, 8:57 am
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When the new 789s are delivered, and before LAX-MEL starts, will they be in a domestic rotation?
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Old Feb 20, 2014, 11:52 am
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When the new 789s are delivered, and before LAX-MEL starts, will they be in a domestic rotation?
New fleet types and aircraft that have major changes to the interiors usually fly a few weeks on domestic routings before going internationally.
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Old Feb 20, 2014, 10:42 pm
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Originally Posted by mgcsinc
When the new 789s are delivered, and before LAX-MEL starts, will they be in a domestic rotation?
Originally Posted by planemechanic
New fleet types and aircraft that have major changes to the interiors usually fly a few weeks on domestic routings before going internationally.
Indeed, but will -9 be different enough to warrant domestic flying?

Or will they fly it domestically just because of all the problems that original 787 had?
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Old Feb 20, 2014, 10:46 pm
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Originally Posted by EmailKid
Indeed, but will -9 be different enough to warrant domestic flying?

Or will they fly it domestically just because of all the problems that original 787 had?
Most importantly, where will it fly and when?
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Old Feb 20, 2014, 10:49 pm
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Most importantly, where will it fly and when?
Perhaps like the 787-8, which flew lots of hub-to-hubs when it first entered service (I caught it the first week on a redeye SFO-IAH).
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Old Feb 20, 2014, 10:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Kacee
Perhaps like the 787-8, which flew lots of hub-to-hubs when it first entered service (I caught it the first week on a redeye SFO-IAH).
I did an IAH-LAX and an IAH-ORD, both CPUed into BF.

I also booked it several times, intending to SDC away from it (and in fact doing so). The excess capacity made for cheap flights, especially if you knew about the married segments breaking trick before a certain someone broke the "news."
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Old Feb 21, 2014, 11:21 pm
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Several 752 ps units have been getting maint in MIA. N588UA and N597UA were swapping out.

320:
N478UA exited LCQ 6865/19Feb with new slimline seats/Bins - WiFi not shown operational
N480UA entered LCQ 7953/19Feb
N498UA sked to enter LCQ 2/22/14

738:
N14235 (GUM unit) completed text hop 6864/21Feb at IAH (Return to service soon?
N36247 now operating in GUM operation

739:
N38454 exited INT 6858/19Feb with E+

772:
N212UA exited SFO 2/20/14 with Hawaiian reconfiguration
N210UA entered SFO 2/18/14 for Hawaiian mod
N222UA exited PEK 898/21Feb
N223UA entered PEK 897/20Feb
N786UA entered HKG 896/18Feb
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Old Feb 23, 2014, 12:00 am
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N854UA exited LCQ 6853/22Feb with slimline seats/bins/WiFi

738:
N14235 (GUM unit) exited IAH 6858/22Feb

739:
N28478 entered MWH 6866/20Feb for split scimitar winglet testing.
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