findark

It's not. Due to recent "enhancements" you won't be able to see the seatmap unless searching for a First fare.

warrenw

ICN is my home airport. As others have stated yes you can stay in transit. This is best because that way you don't have to take the airport train to the main terminal and back again. If you go through immigration and then go back through again they get pretty pissed. (I've done that before and the immigration officer gave me a ration of hell)

What you do is once you exit the plane there will be signs saying like "arrivals" and "transfer." Follow the signs that say "transfer." To transfer it will take all of like 1 minute because usually there's no line there. I think you'll be able to get your onward ticket at either a transfer desk (there are many) or at the gate. You might be able to have them print your return ticket in SFO since it's within 24 hours of departure.

Enjoy your short stay in ICN!

N104UA

EF doesn't show any blocked seats the last week of the 744 flights

dmbfan222

Is there a place where the final 747 routes and end dates are posted? Trying to sneak in one more trip the last weekend of this month, I know time is running out quick.

SFO to ICN/LHR/PVG

Anything else I'm missing?

BThumme

From http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...47-routes.html - only missing FRA

dmbfan222

Thank you appreciate it!

climmy

Thanks to FINDARK above, I realize that I wasn't searching for those fares.

However, I was lucky enough to find reasonable biz fares for late October and executed the fare tonight.

Very POSH...Port Out - Starboard Home, for my selected dates.

Got lucky I think. Really hoping they don't sub in a 787 at the last second.

Very fond memories of the 747 on a few different carriers, but UA took me SFO-SYD in first (3K) and SFO-FRA (2K) a number of times. Was never a fan of row 1.

Was lucky enough to have the best seat ever on my Dad's retirement flight from Air Canada in 1996...(pre 9-11) jump seat on CDG-YYZ as he skippered an AC 747-400 on that flight. Hard to beat that but I'll be happy as self-loading-cargo on a late model UA747 flight.

mkrecek

Yes, I did it. Before you get to the escalators to go down, there should be a transfer area where you go up to the boarding gates. You should have plenty of time to go the Asiana lounge and take a shower, so you will feel refreshed for your return.

greg99

@warrenw - If we wanted to clear customs and go back through security, how much time would you allow? I'm APEC, for what it's worth.

Thanks,
Greg

EmailKid

I did this once when I had a seven hour layover and chose to do the free five hour tour of Seoul (recommend it).

It was quite efficient and no worse than any airport that I've encountered in the past. IIRC it took about 20-30 minutes to clear security and immigration and not even that long to get outside security.

warrenw

Going outside when you originated from the satellite terminal is on average 30 minutes. From leaving the plane I have been at the bus stop the quickest 15 minutes, longest 40, but that was because immigration was backed up.

Going back in, it's almost instant to get your ticket if you are 1K/Polaris, and then about 10 minutes for security/immigration (limp to the desk when you get your ticket, then ask for a "security fast pass" because your leg hurts or whatever then it's even faster. Then it's a solid 15-20 minutes to get to your gate at the satellite terminal.

Note: the immigration officer will definitely make a comment if you do this within a span of say, 2 hours. "Why did you leave??" something like that. For a multi-hour layover they don't care.

greg99

Thanks. Very helpful.

BThumme

Last 747 announced. November 7th, SFO-HNL.

SFO 1K

More info:
http://newsroom.united.com/2017-09-1...ing-747-Flight

J and F sold out in about 10 minutes from when this was posted.

EmailKid

Thanks for posting ^

Guess I should be happy that Biz and FC are already sold out so I won't be tempted to fly this

Though I've flown 747 in coach much further in the past

Interesting that they won't be selling ticket for UD:

And for those of you who snagged ticket for last Int'l flight, looks like that is still holding ^

And what a way to post your 4,000th post