IAD-SFO & SFO-IAD now flying Int'l 757 configurations?
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I am so sad they seem to have done away with the Int'l Config for the redeyes. Both 11pm-ish flights this week seem to be in the old 738 or 739 configuration. I can't help but wonder why they don't fly a single redeye on a larger aircraft instead. Anyone know?
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The flatbed 757s and international aircraft are pretty much spoken for on international flights and EWR/LAX-SFO flights.
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They'll probably return for the winter. Right now there are more 757s in the transatlantic schedule, predominantly operating eastbound redeye flights to Europe.
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All about utilization.
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The sCO 752s have also been popping up in DEN doing runs primarily to and from LAX, EWR, and IAD, but also some to OGG, KOA, SFO, and ORD. I haven't been looking at it enough to figure out whether there's a pattern to any of it. From what I can tell, aside from p.s. routes, the sCO 752 has now become a domestic hauler with the few TATL routes left being to the UK and Ireland.
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If prior to November '15, EWR-SFO (or LAX) frequency was A, and JFK-SFO (or LAX) frequency was B...
UA claimed that after axing JFK, EWR-SFO frequency would be A+B.
But it's more likely that within a year (by November '16), frequency will be back at A.
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The sCO 752s have also been popping up in DEN doing runs primarily to and from LAX, EWR, and IAD, but also some to OGG, KOA, SFO, and ORD. I haven't been looking at it enough to figure out whether there's a pattern to any of it. From what I can tell, aside from p.s. routes, the sCO 752 has now become a domestic hauler with the few TATL routes left being to the UK and Ireland.
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As someone predicted before (and I fully believe)...
If prior to November '15, EWR-SFO (or LAX) frequency was A, and JFK-SFO (or LAX) frequency was B...
UA claimed that after axing JFK, EWR-SFO frequency would be A+B.
But it's more likely that within a year (by November '16), frequency will be back at A.
If prior to November '15, EWR-SFO (or LAX) frequency was A, and JFK-SFO (or LAX) frequency was B...
UA claimed that after axing JFK, EWR-SFO frequency would be A+B.
But it's more likely that within a year (by November '16), frequency will be back at A.
The release was that UA would by flying "up to" 17 SFO/15 LAX flights and on peak summer days, they are. This also includes 1-2 daily 777s on each route and a handful of 787-9s for LAX, which approximate the capacity of two p.s. 757s. The move of p.s. to EWR was not supposed to be cumulative and never presented as such; in fact, given the lower capacity of the 75J vs. 737-800/900, it was actually a net capacity cut, although it added a lot more premium inventory. Keep in mind that UA was down to 7x SFO and 5-6x LAX at the end of the JFK station.
I don't think anyone ever expected UA to operate peak frequency during the shoulder and winter season, but current winter schedules show frequency to SFO regularly 14-15 flights during the week, and 12-13 to LAX. There's just no evidence that United is backing off its initial proclamations about the service, as much as some wish it to be true... by all indications, p.s. at EWR has been a winner.
I don't think that's correct. Using July 15 as an index date, by my count, UA has 18 757 transatlantic 757 flights, of which 15 are to the British Isles. The UK, Ireland and Scotland are appropriate 757 markets. Not a majority, and a markedly different utilization pattern from years past. The domestic services clearly are not one-off, either.
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Which routes? Poking through schedules in June, the only route I see the 752 flying in continental Europe is EWR-ARN. Partisan talk should at least have some facts behind it to back it up.
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The non-UK/Ireland routes are EWR-OSL/ARN and IAD-LIS.
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