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Old Feb 21, 2017, 2:36 pm
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Current 77W Routes:
SFO/HKG (UA 862/869) Started 25MAR17
EWR/TLV (UA 90/91) Started 5MAY17
SFO/NRT (UA 837/838) Started 14JUN17
SFO/TPE (UA 871/872) Started 1AUG17
SFO/FRA (UA 58/59) Started 5OCT17
EWR/NRT (UA 79/78) Started 28OCT17
SFO/AKL (UA 916/917) Resumes seasonal service 27OCT18 - 29MAR19 (non-seasonal 3x weekly service operated by 772)
SFO/LHR (UA 901/949) Started 23APR18, ends 26OCT18, resumes 30MAR19
SFO/TLV (UA 954/955) Started 23MAY18
EWR/BOM (UA 48/49) Started 27OCT18
EWR/HKG (UA 179/180) Started 30MAR19

Current Non-77W routes
772 Retrofit:
EWR/BRU (UA 999/998) Started 30MAR19
EWR/CDG (UA 57/56) Started 30MAR19
IAD/BRU (UA 950/951) Started 30MAR19
IAD/CDG (UA 915/914) Starts 29APR19
IAD/TLV (UA 72/73) Starts 22MAY19, 3x weekly
SFO/PEK (UA 888/889) Started 30MAR19
SFO/FRA (UA 926/927) Started 30MAR19
SFO/CDG (UA 990/984) Starts 29APR19
SFO/ICN (UA 805/806) Started 1APR19, 4x weekly
SFO/AKL (UA 916/917) Started off-season service 30MAR19, 3x weekly

Past routes:
EWR/FRA (UA 960/961) 24MAR18 - 31JUL18 (now operated by 78J)
SFO/EWR (various), currently operated by 752, 78J, 77G
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Old Apr 28, 2017, 9:54 am
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Oh wow! I had no idea, thank you all very much.
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Old Apr 28, 2017, 10:58 am
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Originally Posted by Kacee
Yes, it would. Quite distinct from the 772 seat maps. From IAD, it won't be a 77W.
Yeah - PEK-IAD is hardly in need of an upgauge, particularly with Air China also flying the route 4x weekly.
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Old Apr 28, 2017, 2:45 pm
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Originally Posted by UA_Flyer
I actually take it as a good news if you have a seat on the upper deck. I take it you have not tried the new seat and eager for the experience. You will get that experience for the next 10 years, but upper deck, IMHO, is offering an overall better experience (others feel free to disagree), and that experience will be gone in a few months.

Don't be disappointed for this particular flight.
I agree the UD was and can be a great experience.

But since the announcement that the 744s are being retired, I feel the aircraft are in a pretty sad state of disrepair and everything feels very dingy.

Even the flight attendants have made comments apologizing for the sad state of affairs and attributed it the planes being retired in the near future.
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Old Apr 28, 2017, 3:07 pm
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Originally Posted by bulgarianfreak55
Is it certain the 777-300 will fly EWR-SFO-EWR by mid August. I am seeing it on some August 10th flights, wouldn't it be flying international by then?
Happy to be up front 23 August EWR-SFO on a 777-300ER.
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Old Apr 28, 2017, 3:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Infinite1K
But since the announcement that the 744s are being retired, I feel the aircraft are in a pretty sad state of disrepair and everything feels very dingy.

Even the flight attendants have made comments apologizing for the sad state of affairs and attributed it the planes being retired in the near future.
I spoke to a FA today, who was part of the Pan-Am merger and been on 747's ever since. She said the airlines are simply trying to limp them to the finish line as far as passenger experience goes. She's been cross trained on the 777-300 but will ride it out on the 744 as long as she can. "The pilots who have had to shuttle them to the dessert for death have been in tears."
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Old Apr 28, 2017, 7:12 pm
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Originally Posted by Madone59
I spoke to a FA today, who was part of the Pan-Am merger and been on 747's ever since. She said the airlines are simply trying to limp them to the finish line as far as passenger experience goes. She's been cross trained on the 777-300 but will ride it out on the 744 as long as she can. "The pilots who have had to shuttle them to the dessert for death have been in tears."
The 777-300 will never replace the 747-400. Absolutely fantastic aircraft.

One year from now we are all going to be longing for the "good ole' days" of flying in the huge United Polaris First suites in the nose of a 744, or the upper deck. If you haven't flown in either of the above, I implore you to do so right now. The experience isn't coming back.

Got to talk to the crew and pilots on the 744 FRA-SFO after being in F last week and it was emotional all around, including myself. Quite possibly my best UAL flight ever.
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Old Apr 28, 2017, 11:02 pm
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Originally Posted by tuolumne
Got to talk to the crew and pilots on the 744 FRA-SFO after being in F last week and it was emotional all around, including myself. Quite possibly my best UAL flight ever.
Been on that SFO-FRA flight since inception of famous UA900 and enjoyed every minute of it - mostly upstairs.

I hope at least a 77W to show up, once the 744s are gone.
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Old Apr 29, 2017, 9:34 am
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Just checked the debut 773 for EWR-TLV route next Friday. Looks like they're planning on using N2331U after its pulled over from SFO. I'm curious if they'll leave it there or continue to circulate them all back and forth.

Saturday's hasn't been assigned yet (at least according to the United app, which I trick into showing future flight status by changing the date on my phone).
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Old Apr 29, 2017, 11:49 am
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Originally Posted by villox
... Saturday's hasn't been assigned yet (at least according to the United app, which I trick into showing future flight status by changing the date on my phone).
Have you tried instead the http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...tus-tool.html??
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Old Apr 29, 2017, 1:34 pm
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Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
yeah but it's not as easy if I want to do a bunch of queries for a particular date, and the "where is this aircraft coming from" doesn't then work either. You have to feed in the flights individually to the future tool

Also once you've done the search with your date changed, when you put it back, it still shows in the recent searches. And if you subscribe to push notifications it will stay in the flight status section.

So the app/date trick can be very useful for watching flights many days out.
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Old May 3, 2017, 11:29 am
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One off but a 77W will be operating FLT 77 EWR-LHR tomorrow May 4th and FLT 921 LHR-EWR May 5th A/C #2135 .
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Old May 3, 2017, 12:25 pm
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Originally Posted by tuolumne
The 777-300 will never replace the 747-400. Absolutely fantastic aircraft.

One year from now we are all going to be longing for the "good ole' days" of flying in the huge United Polaris First suites in the nose of a 744, or the upper deck. If you haven't flown in either of the above, I implore you to do so right now. The experience isn't coming back.

Got to talk to the crew and pilots on the 744 FRA-SFO after being in F last week and it was emotional all around, including myself. Quite possibly my best UAL flight ever.
Since LH and CA are UA partners and fly the 748, I am happy knowing I will be able to fly on the upper deck for at least the next decade.
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Old May 3, 2017, 1:26 pm
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Originally Posted by Infinite1K
I agree the UD was and can be a great experience.

But since the announcement that the 744s are being retired, I feel the aircraft are in a pretty sad state of disrepair and everything feels very dingy.

Even the flight attendants have made comments apologizing for the sad state of affairs and attributed it the planes being retired in the near future.
They're super banged up. I didn't realize it but I flew LH ORD-FRA a few weeks before flying NRT-SFO and boy what a difference. There's still that something about flying the UA 744 though. But they're definitely running them to the ground..
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Old May 3, 2017, 7:59 pm
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Originally Posted by JOSECONLSCREW28
One off but a 77W will be operating FLT 77 EWR-LHR tomorrow May 4th and FLT 921 LHR-EWR May 5th A/C #2135 .
Lucky for those folks - although I question why UA would make such a last-minute change. There's a boatload of empty J seats (R9, I9 available). Even most of Y is empty. Probably will be some lucky folks who get 4-across lie-flat in the middle of the plane. Certainly a nice surprise for everyone there, but seems like a poor use of aircraft utilization.
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Old May 3, 2017, 8:04 pm
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Originally Posted by PsiFighter37
Lucky for those folks - although I question why UA would make such a last-minute change.
Maybe they want to test it on a TATL route. Or it could be to train FAs.
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