Polaris seat on 772? -- swap to 77W?
Jul 21, 2017, 6:24 am
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Polaris seat on 772? -- swap to 77W?
I'm flying EWR-PEK (UA89 on a 772) tomorrow and went to check my seat assignment, I noticed the seat map showed the Polaris seat icon. Hopefully this isn't a glitch! I thought the conversion of the 772 was going to take place later this year if not next year?
Jul 21, 2017, 7:01 am
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Jul 21, 2017, 8:50 am
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Congrats! You got lucky.
Looks like UA has taken delivery of more 777-300ERs than they need for the schedule, so they've been subbing these in on all sorts of 777-200 routes.
I am guessing once the additional routes (SFO-TPE, SFO-PEK and EWR-NRT) start later this year, the swaps will be reduced.
So you got super lucky.
Looks like UA has taken delivery of more 777-300ERs than they need for the schedule, so they've been subbing these in on all sorts of 777-200 routes.
I am guessing once the additional routes (SFO-TPE, SFO-PEK and EWR-NRT) start later this year, the swaps will be reduced.
So you got super lucky.
Jul 21, 2017, 10:26 am
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Congrats! You got lucky.
Looks like UA has taken delivery of more 777-300ERs than they need for the schedule, so they've been subbing these in on all sorts of 777-200 routes.
I am guessing once the additional routes (SFO-TPE, SFO-PEK and EWR-NRT) start later this year, the swaps will be reduced.
So you got super lucky.
Looks like UA has taken delivery of more 777-300ERs than they need for the schedule, so they've been subbing these in on all sorts of 777-200 routes.
I am guessing once the additional routes (SFO-TPE, SFO-PEK and EWR-NRT) start later this year, the swaps will be reduced.
So you got super lucky.
Jul 21, 2017, 12:06 pm
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The plus is they also end up in the domestic rotation too, I got a swap out from SFO-EWR yesterday on one. I had looked for this aircraft when I booked the flight a couple months ago but ended up with a 757. It was a nice surprise and now the 7 month in a row I got a ER flight on that route.
In the back, not so much. A change to 10 across in Y would leave me ticked.
Jul 22, 2017, 9:23 am
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It actually wasn't a full flight, it appeared to be about 3/4's full based on the number of people in the lanes so hopefully they got to spread out back in steerage.
Jul 22, 2017, 10:33 am
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That's normal behavior for the website and app when there's an equipment sub. Map and aircraft tail number is correct but aircraft description on seat map view is incorrect.
Jul 23, 2017, 12:14 am
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Definitely agree about the odd rows, and I had done some research on the blogs about which seats to go for, for my inaugural Polaris hard product flight. Great advice out there !
Sep 18, 2017, 9:19 am
#13
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UA automatically put me and my SO in 12DG but I changed it to 17DG. Sure looks like a lot of people traveling together are on the flight (looking at the lack of open DG seats and plenty of single seats)
Sep 26, 2017, 6:52 am
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Equipment Sub or App glitch?
Flying 29 Sep SFO-EWR UA 726. Original config is Hawaii lie flat 772. But on United App, seatmap is for 77W, and allows me to choose a seat that does not exist on 772. .bomb shows 772. Which one is wrong?