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Old Dec 12, 2018, 9:16 am
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Originally Posted by riphamilton
So new 781 route(s) to south america?
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 9:20 am
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Originally Posted by gokeeper
So new 781 route(s) to south america?
I should have added that the first tweet in Earnest's thread featured photos of the 78J. He's UA's CCO.
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 9:36 am
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Originally Posted by riphamilton
Good job. Was looking for ANYTHING that looked legit. This is a smoking gun!
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 9:46 am
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? maybe some SFO/LAX flights to India.
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 10:04 am
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Why is it a smoking gun? And what has Josh Earnest got to do with it? Wasn't he Obama's press guy?
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 10:05 am
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Originally Posted by nwflyboy
Why is it a smoking gun? And what has Josh Earnest got to do with it? Wasn't he Obama's press guy?
He was, and UA hired him this past May as PR guy/spokesman. It's a smoking gun when UA twitter has him tweating that it's legit
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 10:07 am
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Reading from some journos on Twitter.

"Expansion echoes our partnership with Copa and Avianca, extending to Latin America as well"
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 10:10 am
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Originally Posted by uastarflyer


My INTL home base baby. Please don’t just be LatAm though. Daddy wants more transpacs
Surely they are gonna flex some 787 muscle with TPAC...
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 10:11 am
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Originally Posted by fastair
Good job. Was looking for ANYTHING that looked legit. This is a smoking gun!
I don't know if that's a smoking gun. Smocking gun, maybe.
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 10:12 am
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LAX lacks the infursteacture at the moment to support historic international expansion by a single carrier. Perhaps when T9 is finalized...
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 10:13 am
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Well it looks like SFO will be the focal point. There's gotta be SFO-LatAm and India involved IMO.

Hopefully SFO-BKK as well.
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 10:15 am
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maybe 797 order?
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 10:18 am
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Originally Posted by ordogg
maybe 797 order?
I was wondering that, too - launch customer? But IIRC the 797 isn't supposed to have long enough legs for TPAC or deep into Latin America, no?
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 10:19 am
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Originally Posted by mahasamatman
IAD-IKA would be pretty historic...
As would IAD-FNJ.

Edited to add: Truncated beat me to this one, I just missed it.

Last edited by big V; Dec 12, 2018 at 10:21 am Reason: updated post
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Old Dec 12, 2018, 11:03 am
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Now that there is an announcement , will close this speculation thread and redirect folks to
UA Int'l SFO Route Expansion: SFO-DEL/MEL/YYZ, ICN dbl daily, AMS/PPT/AKL Year Round

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Last edited by WineCountryUA; Dec 12, 2018 at 11:27 am
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