Aug 26, 2017, 4:13 pm
What Route(s) do you wish UA Flew?
Feb 4, 2024, 7:45 am
#181
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Floating around
Programs: UA 1K (1MM), DL Gold (1MM), Marriott LTT
Posts: 10,346
Amen. YES PLEASE!
I know EWR is unreliable for connecting, and *especially* when UA express is involved, but nevertheless I agree it would be really helpful sometimes. It's interesting that UA doesn't even sell tickets from BWI to northeastern locations (the website returns zero results), and so it's IAD/DCA or bust if you're trying to go to upstate NY, BOS, etc. The website will price a multi-city itinerary via ORD, which I've done to get to BUF, but of course it's highly out of the way.
I know EWR is unreliable for connecting, and *especially* when UA express is involved, but nevertheless I agree it would be really helpful sometimes. It's interesting that UA doesn't even sell tickets from BWI to northeastern locations (the website returns zero results), and so it's IAD/DCA or bust if you're trying to go to upstate NY, BOS, etc. The website will price a multi-city itinerary via ORD, which I've done to get to BUF, but of course it's highly out of the way.
-RM
Feb 4, 2024, 10:09 am
#182
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Baltimore, MD (BWI/IAD)
Programs: United Mileage Plus, Southwest Rapid Rewards, Amtrak Guest Rewards
Posts: 347
Amen. YES PLEASE!
I know EWR is unreliable for connecting, and *especially* when UA express is involved, but nevertheless I agree it would be really helpful sometimes. It's interesting that UA doesn't even sell tickets from BWI to northeastern locations (the website returns zero results), and so it's IAD/DCA or bust if you're trying to go to upstate NY, BOS, etc. The website will price a multi-city itinerary via ORD, which I've done to get to BUF, but of course it's highly out of the way.
I know EWR is unreliable for connecting, and *especially* when UA express is involved, but nevertheless I agree it would be really helpful sometimes. It's interesting that UA doesn't even sell tickets from BWI to northeastern locations (the website returns zero results), and so it's IAD/DCA or bust if you're trying to go to upstate NY, BOS, etc. The website will price a multi-city itinerary via ORD, which I've done to get to BUF, but of course it's highly out of the way.
Feb 4, 2024, 10:49 am
#183
Join Date: Mar 2023
Location: Under the Big Oak Tree
Programs: Air Bukovina Elite, Circassian Air Gold, Carthaginian Airlines Platinum
Posts: 520
It would be interesting to know what percentage of passengers on AC65 and 66 are connecting to/from the U.S.
Feb 4, 2024, 1:23 pm
#187
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: NYC (Primarily EWR)
Programs: UA 1K / *G, Marriott Bonvoy Gold; Avis PC
Posts: 9,005
My personal take, without going into OMNI land too much, is that UA is perhaps worried about antagonizing PRC and endangering all the routes they currently don't fly and would not want to start another route to TPE? Unsure if that calculus figures in at all. EWR-ANC-NRT-TPE clocks in at 8159 miles, so it's well within the range of the 789.
Feb 7, 2024, 9:49 am
#191
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SFO
Programs: UA 1K - 1 MM, Marriott LT-Plt, Hyatt Glb
Posts: 216
Always agree with more SFO international flights, though we are bursting at the seams now, so I'm guessing they will prioritize other gateways. SFO-DUB is interesting given the end to the EI connections this fall.
Feb 7, 2024, 9:56 am
#192
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SFO
Programs: UA 1K - 1 MM, Marriott LT-Plt, Hyatt Glb
Posts: 216
I just want one thing from their schedule changes and that's the return of the United Express EWR-BWI route. Dulles is a haul so for the moment I feel like the northeast is a bit cut off for me, at least via UA, not to mention the international destinations served by EWR. (Though those are cases where I can be convinced or can convince someone to get me to IAD.)
Feb 7, 2024, 9:57 am
#193
Join Date: Jun 2014
Programs: UA MM
Posts: 4,126
Aren't many if not most of the possible EI connections available as all-UA routings anyway?
Feb 7, 2024, 10:00 am
#194
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I also support having EWR (or ORD) to TPE. For many traveling from East Coast up and down from Maine to Florida ( with exception of BOS, IAD, EWR), flying to TPE is a two-stop trip via SFO.
Feb 7, 2024, 10:05 am
#195
Join Date: Jun 2014
Programs: UA MM
Posts: 4,126
Will this route venture into Russian air space? I know Russian air space is an issue for EWR-HKG. TPE is about 200 miles from HKG.
I also support having EWR (or ORD) to TPE. For many traveling from East Coast up and down from Maine to Florida ( with exception of BOS, IAD, EWR), flying to TPE is a two-stop trip via SFO.
I also support having EWR (or ORD) to TPE. For many traveling from East Coast up and down from Maine to Florida ( with exception of BOS, IAD, EWR), flying to TPE is a two-stop trip via SFO.