DELee

And/or that getting staffing with required expertise to run the lines is impacting the flow...

David

atword

319:
N835UA seems to be re-entering the active fleet, presumably after HMV.

Bunky

772:
N206UA entered FTW 2744/9Mar for EvoBlu livery
N219UA shows cancelled for RT GUM-XMN 2/11, expected to provide crew for N77019
N783UA sked to enter GUM from SFO 2750/10Mar, positioning for XMN entry?
N77019 sked to exit HKG 2700/11Mar at 1100am, don't see an inbound to provide crew

789:
N19954 entered VCV paint 2754/9Mar

Bunky

319:
N835UA re-entered servic 3/9/20 after storage/HMV/12F mod at GYR

738:
N38417 entered VCV 2761/10Mar for EvoBlu livery, 1st 739 to receive

752:
N14115 entered GYR 2756/9Mar, storage, maint?
N13138 entered GYR 2761/5Mar, storage, maint?

763:
N644UA entered MCO 2751/10Mar

772:
N79011 exited AMA 2725/10Mar in EvoBlu livery

UAinAUS

CR5:
N153GJ entered AMA for EvoBlu livery
N521GJ exited AMA in EvoBlu livery, at STL
N378CA has been reregistered as N524GJ, exited MLB, at STL awaiting service entry
N653CA (2003 build) entered MLB for interior mod, new tail number not yet assigned

Bunky

319:
N890UA entered LCQ 2733/11Mar, expect 12F mod

772:
N78005 entered AMA 2764/10Mar for EvoBlu livery

77W:
N2136U sked to enter HKG maint 2701/13Mar
N2737U sked to exit HKG maint 2688/13Mar

dmurphynj

Those are both 757-224's, right? N13138 is showing as "stored" on planespotters.net ...

Interesting that they'd park a -224 instead of one of the -222's if it's just storing excess capacity right now. The -224's can serve a lot more missions.

Bunky

Ask and you shall receive.
752:
N510UA sked to enter TUP 2711/13Mar, expect scrap. One of 4 or 5 that still have gogo and haven't received ViaSat WiFi. Would expect gogo equiped N512UA, N595UA and N598UA might be next if more are to be scrapped. N568UA in MIA since 2/10, expect ViaSat WiFi at exit.

UAL757222

N595UA and N598UA are some of the newest 752s and newer than most of the ex-CO ones. Would not make sense to scrap them. Then again, I don’t trust this management team to do rational things and I expect they’ll just scrap all of them due to their agenda.

hopefully the two CO 757s get chopped instead. RR engines are loud and not as fuel efficient as the PW

Bunky

The last 2 PW ones are a year newer than the last pmCO units, but UA flew the pants off their 752s, many flights on mid-continental domestic operations. Only the last few had ETOPS and could fly to Hawaii, meaning their cycles could have been lower than most PW752. The CO operated 752s operated heavily to Europe, which would mean cycles would be much lower on the exCO birds. I thought the CO birds had a higher GTOW.

Bunky

752:
N505UA was notcied to Ferry VCV-TUP 11/15/19 for scrap

763:
N644UA sked to exit MCO maint 2735/13Mar

772:
N783UA sked to enter XMN 2700/15Mar for Polaris/PP

789:
N27957 entered VCV 2738/12Mar for EvoBlu livery

dmurphynj

Right, that's my understanding as well. The pmCO birds are all-ETOPS, but the PW fleet is a mixed bag. As I recall, the difference was somewhere in the avionics, but I could be wrong - it's been a while since that topic came up. Wonder if the "missing bits" could get recycled off the pmCO birds? Or if they already scavanged a set from N26123 (the writeoff bird from EWR)? The RR's also had a somewhat higher thrust capacity, expanding the max weight envelope, so that's why they did the Europe runs. Again, this is all from memory, and I'm about as far from a fleet planner as it gets. Just a piece of self-loading cargo.

If they are scrapping any pmCO 752's, I'd hope they pull the split scimitar winglets off first - those should be repurposed onto the pmUA frames.

From a date perspective, looks like the two birds at GYR are 1995 and 1999 builds. The oldest PW bird is 1989, and newest is 1999. The rest are somewhere in the middle, so this has to be about cycle count and not calendar-age.

For fun -- this is the 757 I wish we could all fly! https://www.aircraftforsale.com/site...57-256-vip.pdf

Bunky

Regrading the 752s in GYR. They ave been there before and received maint visits. It could be maint or short term storage combined with maint or just storage due COVID-19 situation. I don't think they are leaving the fleet.

319:
N875UA sked to exit VCV 2736/13Mar in EvoBlu, 1st revenue flight not sked yet

772:
N77012 sked to exit XMN 2698/15Mar with Polaris/PP, crew from N783UA inbound

UAL757222

The ex-CO 757s go to Europe because CO long ago configured them to do so. In part because they had so few wide bodies. The PW 757, which are all of the 757-222s has a better fuel burn than RR ones and is fully capable of flying TATL. TW, NW and DL have/had PW 757s and fly TATL.

UA simply didn’t want to use their 757s that way, only ETOPS certifying 16 of them to use to Hawaii, the rest serving domestically which is what Boeing originally intended and what all 757s in the USA did before the late ‘90’s and early 2000’s. Nothing stopping them from flying the remaining ETOPS birds to Europe from EWR/IAD/ORD if they wanted

United857

Problem is that because the pmUA 757's were flying Hawaii and domestic routes, they only bought the 240,000lb MTOW version (paper limited, structurally it can go to the full 255,000lb version), which is not enough for both payload and fuel for the European routes. I doubt UA will be willing to pay Boeing the original cost differential to upgrade to the full weight version this late in the plane's lifecycle.