so i was looking for a pet project to practice my programming on as i try to do side tasks so my programming doesn't get rusty, and i was looking at FT and ran across some thread asking which UA RJ flight is the longest.

hey, i figured, this sounds like something i could figure out without reading the entire timetable!

so i took a day and wrote a python script that parsed the july pdf timetable for UA and loaded it into the analytics tool that i used... and came up with this.

https://cloud.saplumira.com/open?key...type=HANALYTIC

according to the data, it looks like the longest RJ flight that UA has is... IAH-YUL at (holy ....) 4h5m on an E70, and lo and behold, i found that flight on united.com... for $771 one way.

jeez.

anyway, if you want to play around with the data i did make the dataset public, but there's something happening that's not letting people access it via the link, so if you want to actually play with the data and poke around, just create an account and pm me and i'll invite you over (below is what it looks like).



i'm working in my spare time to get something cool going since it's actually a big interest of mine, but thought i'd share. the data is pretty interesting (i also didn't know that the 777 is actually being flown further than the 788, although since it's new i guess it makes sense).

and jeez, my programming skills are rusty.

really cool analysis, thanks for sharing!

The plot you linked to has the E70 at 265 min (4h25m).

Nominal range for the 772ER is longer than the 788.

er, sorry, you're right, it's the E70 that's listed on united.com, not the E75, typo of mine.

Not according to Boeing...

772ER - 7725 NM

788 - 7850 NM

I don't think the early builds like UA took have quite that range; this article references ranges as short as 7600nm which is what I was recalling.