United Adding 1600 Premium Seats -- 763, A319/A320, CRJ550(CRJ700)
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United Adding 1600 Premium Seats -- 763, A319/A320, CRJ550(CRJ700)
I will say I did not see this coming...but Zach at TPG has reported that UA will be increasing the F seat count on the narrowbody Airbus fleet by four, bringing the A319s to 12F and the A320s to 16F. As someone fleeing AA for UA, I will give UA kudos for this, which stands out in comparison to AA's trend of ripping out F/J seats on its 788 and 772 aircraft.
Original link here.
Quite the contrast to the discussion we had here not too long ago! A319 F capacity: why not increase it?
Original link here.
Quite the contrast to the discussion we had here not too long ago! A319 F capacity: why not increase it?
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United Adding 1600 Premium Seats
Highlights:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/06/unit...ssengers-.html
- All United Airbus A320 planes will go from 12 first class seats to 16.
- All United Airbus A319 planes will have four additional first class seats, bringing the number to 12 in each plane.
- On 21 of United's 767-300ER planes, the airline is expanding the number of Polaris business class seats from 30 to 46, while also adding 22 premium economy seats.
- United is adding 50 Bombardier CRJ 550 planes to its fleet, each with 10 first class seats.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/06/unit...ssengers-.html
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The Hi-J config 763 was already pretty heavily discussed here, but that's shockingly positive news on the Airbus fleet. They might even give away an upgrade on a 320 once in a while now.
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ETA: Regarding the 550, AC previously did the same thing with some of their CRJ-900s and added F to them to get them to 75 seats so they would fit the scope clause for Air Canada Express flights and called it the CRJ-705. It looks like the 550 may also be a scope clause thing as well?
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I will say I did not see this coming...but Zach at TPG has reported that UA will be increasing the F seat count on the narrowbody Airbus fleet by four, bringing the A319s to 12F and the A320s to 16F. As someone fleeing AA for UA, I will give UA kudos for this, which stands out in comparison to AA's trend of ripping out F/J seats on its 788 and 772 aircraft.
That said -- I'm not convinced that this is as much of a win as it sounds like. Adding in an extra row of F while only removing one row of E+ sounds too good to be true. They're going to have to find that space somewhere -- either by removing the pitch in F, E+, E-, or some combination thereof.
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I came to this realization right before you posted this! Similar to 1A and 2A in the E145 and row 3 starts the full row because of the galley. Makes sense.
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There are some downsides for elite-heavy routes: sitting in E seats, instead of E+ seats, due to reduction of E+ seats. It will be all upsides for the rest of routes. Your upgrade percentage increases and you won’t sit in E seats, either, for last minute booking/changes. It is generally a positive move for United’s bottom line and mostly for passengers, too.
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The CR5 will be an interesting concept and I’m looking forward to seeing it once it’s rolls out. Hopefully it does well enough to expand to DEN and replace some markets that don’t support mainline (FAT comes to mind) very often. CR2s on the 900~ mile flights are disappointing for a variety of reasons.
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