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Old Oct 25, 2018, 8:25 pm
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I see that Delta are upgrading their hard product from Sydney to LAX in April 2019 to their Delta One suites.
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Any speculation on how UA will respond if at all?
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Old Oct 25, 2018, 8:32 pm
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UA will keep the B789 on the route and you'll get 2-2-2 biz seating. GF is done, UA is not pursuing an intl F product anymore.
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Old Oct 25, 2018, 8:34 pm
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Originally Posted by sabbasolo
Any speculation on how UA will respond if at all?
With a great, big yawn.
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Old Oct 25, 2018, 8:42 pm
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Originally Posted by sabbasolo
...Any speculation on how UA will respond if at all?
UA will sell seats to people who don’t want to pay for Delta One? Maybe get a better margin w/ higher density?

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Old Oct 25, 2018, 8:53 pm
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UA will continue to fly the 789 which between Fall 2019 and end-2020 will get Polaris. Simples.

You could equally turn this around on any route that UA currently flies the 77W with Polaris, and DL flies a non suites plane and ask how Delta will respond.
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Old Oct 25, 2018, 8:55 pm
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Itr's a mildly interesting market since it tends toward higher fares and lower loads (which would make it more quality sensitive), but I agree that with the whole fleet going Polaris anyway, UA probably won't react.
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Old Oct 25, 2018, 8:57 pm
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Bogus thread topic. UA won't do anything at all. Eventually the UA 789s on Australia routes will have Polaris seats.

Note also that DL's D1 suite rollout is glacially slow compared to UA's Polaris roll out. UA is winning that race by a factor of nearly 3x (37 aircraft to 13).

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With a great, big yawn.
Yep.
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 1:43 am
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Continue to push a market-trailing product at steep corporate discounts.
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 2:08 am
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Originally Posted by mduell
Continue to push a market-trailing product at steep corporate discounts.
Agreed - I managed to fly one of these Delta One suites a couple of months ago, and no better than Polaris - just going to be geared to toward Delta Corporate discounts.....
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 5:06 am
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Originally Posted by HNLbasedFlyer
Agreed - I managed to fly one of these Delta One suites a couple of months ago, and no better than Polaris - just going to be geared to toward Delta Corporate discounts.....
I think Polaris is better than the Delta One suite, comfort-wise, and maybe even privacy-wise.
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 8:02 am
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Originally Posted by HNLbasedFlyer
Agreed - I managed to fly one of these Delta One suites a couple of months ago, and no better than Polaris - just going to be geared to toward Delta Corporate discounts.....
Originally Posted by FlyinHawaiian
I think Polaris is better than the Delta One suite, comfort-wise, and maybe even privacy-wise.
The whole D1 Suite is just marketing - it's a Thompson Vantage XL with a sliding door. Same seat (without door) is used by SK, LX, and others.
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 9:21 am
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Originally Posted by gmt4
UA will keep the B789 on the route and you'll get 2-2-2 biz seating. GF is done, UA is not pursuing an intl F product anymore.
But, those Delta seats ARE business class. I hadn't focused on them before, but except for the door they look very similar to the ANA business seats. UA has gone in a different direction.
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 9:35 am
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Originally Posted by usbusinesstraveller
You could equally turn this around on any route that UA currently flies the 77W with Polaris, and DL flies a non suites plane and ask how Delta will respond.
You could, but nobody would. The unwritten contest to see who can be first to start a "Will UA follow DL?" thread anytime DL makes an announcement seems to go only one way.
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 9:44 am
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UA will offer the "Mister Pillows" option to interested customers, and enable you to build your own equivalent privacy barrier with your choice of synthetic or down feathered cloth bag.
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Old Oct 26, 2018, 11:10 am
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UA will offer the "Mister Pillows" option to interested customers, and enable you to build your own equivalent privacy barrier with your choice of synthetic or down feathered cloth bag.
Don't forget the milk.
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