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Originally Posted by Kmxu (Post 24935922)

I would argue that UA will never be a leading airlines that customers will choose to fly if customers have to take care themselves when something goes wrong. For example, my PEK-ORD flight was delayed for more than one hour at PEK last Saturday. The connection time at ORD was less than 1 hour (International to Domestic MCT is 90 min). No protection was offered. For my segment (ORD-IAD), the delay were lengthened by an increment of 15 min. My connection time at IAD were down to 20 min when boarding started. Still no protection flight was offered. I chose not to call UA Premier Line because the blocked time for the ORD-IAD was 2 hours (for < 600 miles). If UA offered me a direct flight (ORD-ORF), I would have taken it although I would arrive at home one hour later than my connection flights. Another point one can argue is the dismayed operation. For my latest trip, the on-time percentage is 20% (even I doubled the DOT 15 min requirement). Four of five flights arrived 30 min or longer behind the scheduled arrival time.

Is this a post about RJ's? You kind of lost me...

Where was your latest trip (with 20% OT) in to and out of on what dates? What was the source of the long delays?

Looks like Reno to SFO is upgrading, at least until end of September. The midweek daily schedule shows:

Current
- 4 x CRJ200
- 2 x CRJ400

July - September
- 2 x mix of CRJ200 or CRJ700
- 2 x mix 737-800 or Airbus 319

I haven't flown anything bigger than an RJ on UA on this route in years.

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Originally Posted by bocasierra (Post 24938406)

I miss the 757 on that route. Take off in the evening was an absolute joy!!

I've noticed my CVG-EWR evening flight gets upgraded to a E170 soon. good stuff.

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Originally Posted by spin88 (Post 24930802)

I am curious what type of plane it was? I have mostly flown DL in F, but the few times in Y (757, 767, 738/9, A320 ex NW) I have found the seats to be good, much better than the slim lines on the UA Airbuses which are IMHE the worst seat I have ever had the displeasure of sitting on a mainline plane). I find the Recaro (UA) seats to be far far worse than anything I have ever sat in, they are just the pits.

Ok. This is really annoying. I have boarding passes, a receipt, reservation/ticket confirmation, and an itinerary printed by a DL kiosk. Nothing lists the type of a/c. When I checked the past weekend, flightaware only went back 4 months and that flight number is no longer for BOS-DTW but when it was, it was either a B738 (Sat 2/7), A319 or A319L. 2/12 was the last day it was BOS-DTW

If someone else is more motivated or wants to call DL directly to see if they can get the info, it was DL 1583 BOS-DTW on Sat Jan 17.

In looking at the flight status for my flight today on a United Express/Skywest CRJ200 I noticed that united.com has been mis-stating the seat width to be 18.5 inches:

Aircraft:

Bombardier CRJ200
Capacity: 50 United Economy®
Cruise Speed: 520 mph
Propulsion: Two General Electric CF34-3B1 turbofan engines, rated at 8,729 pounds of thrust each
Wingspan: 69 feet, 7 inches

Seating:

United Economy®: 2-2 seating layout. Most seats have a 18.5 inch width and 31 inches of pitch.

These types of things almost always come to down to the debate of more frequency with smaller aircraft or less with larger. I personally prefer more frequency. If a CRJ is doing a route, it can't possibly be that long. My time is more valuable than being marginally more comfortable on a 1.5hr flight.

I'd rather be home than staying overnight somewhere or waiting out a 6hr layover.

That being said: I loathe CRJ-100/200s. Canadian Torture Tubes. CRJ 700-900 isn't much better. Sure there's a small amount of F, but I wouldn't pay for it out of pocket and I'm not too high on the upgrade list.

E-Jets seem to be the best. In my opinion they're more comfortable than a 737/A320 at least for Y.

E-145s are marginally better than CRJ-200. At least the A seat is a single.

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Originally Posted by Mandalorian (Post 25415181)

If a CRJ is doing a route, it can't possibly be that long. My time is more valuable than being marginally more comfortable on a 1.5hr flight.

If 1.5 hours was the longest CRJ flight, then I thing most people would agree with you.

However...

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...lights-rj.html

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Originally Posted by LarkSFO (Post 25415809)

If 1.5 hours was the longest CRJ flight, then I thing most people would agree with you.

However...

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...lights-rj.html

I was using that number as the average.