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UA publishes a schedule for 330 days in advance (called Beginning of Schedule) and in the past would make tweaks quarterly and things would be fairly settles 3-4 months out. Updates would occur Friday evening / Saturday morning (Chicago time). Routine additions could occur anytime.

Present updates are every Friday and sometimes mid-week usually focused on the next month and farther out.
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20 Oct 2021
Originally Posted by EWR764
In the earnings call today, UA noted that has been transitioning back to its 'normal' (pre-pandemic) 90-day schedule load process, which should be complete in the very near future.
However, during the COVID era, UA has gone to a more dynamic and shorter-term setting of schedule (as has the other carriers). Presently UA, while UA is still publishing a schedule for 330 days in advance it reflects pre-COVID operational levels and is considered just a placeholder schedule. Then 3-5 weeks prior to a month, UA makes a major update of that month's schedule.

Examples (Major updates)
The October 2020 schedule was updated 4-5 September 2020
The November 2020 schedule was updated 2-3 October 2020
The December 2020 schedule was updated 30-31 October 2020
Holidays can move the major date a week earlier or later.
Weekly updates are still generally done over night Friday-Saturday (Chicago)

UA does not publish a summary of most schedule changes but a variety of sources below do and summaries / links of those sources can be found in this thread & wiki.


Always crosscheck with UA's Travel Notices , Coronavirus (COVID-19) travel waivers and information, www.united.com/coronavirus as the situation is dynamic


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Old Jan 13, 20, 8:21 am
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UA added a couple routes late last week - believe they are mostly a summer start:

-SFO-MKE
-LAX/SFO/DEN-SMX
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Old Feb 12, 20, 7:26 am
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For those who wished........YOW-ORD is back


https://obj.ca/article/ottawa-airpor...ice-set-resume
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Old Feb 12, 20, 7:56 am
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Originally Posted by Heffeh41
For those who wished........YOW-ORD is back


https://obj.ca/article/ottawa-airpor...ice-set-resume
I fly the E175 for Expressjet, looks like I will have YOW on my schedule many times in March! Never been, but lots of 24-36 hour overnights so will look forward to exploring.
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Old Feb 12, 20, 8:53 am
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Originally Posted by Heffeh41
For those who wished........YOW-ORD is back


https://obj.ca/article/ottawa-airpor...ice-set-resume
Awesome! Now, if we could just get back MAN. How is it possible this route was served by two airlines simultaneously for decades and now nothing?
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Old Dec 16, 21, 7:17 pm
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Originally Posted by dkc192
I guess BOS-SFO going all 737 is no longer "terrifying"? Or do you just not have one of those flights booked in April?
Originally Posted by LifetimeGS
Oh BOS-SFO on any variant of 73 is terrifying. My only SFO in April is BOS-EWR-SFO
Originally Posted by cfischer
Oh, I saw that coming So no ... too bad for UA ... no BOS-SFO
Hey, at least there's a 752 flying the red eye SFO-BOS and the mid-day BOS-SFO right now. LAX-BOS-LAX are only 7M9s.

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Old Dec 19, 21, 10:05 pm
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Stupid question because I usually fly AA, but are the widebody routes listed for March going to remain in place, or is there a good chance UA swaps equipments? I'm flying ORD-SFO on AA but thinking of changing my trip to UA to avoid the 737 and hopefully get a lie flat seat (UA showing 757 right now).
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Old Dec 21, 21, 6:47 pm
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Originally Posted by ORDflyer92
Yeah I misspoke because AA only has lie-flats on widebodies.
AA A321T (narrow body) has lie flat first and business class seats.
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Old Jan 13, 22, 4:24 pm
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United summer 2022 schedule?

Hi all,
Trying to book Premium Economy United flights from EWR-MEL for late August. Unfortunately, the website is still showing the old 789 configuration on that route. The CEO has confirmed that all 789 will be refurbished with the new interior by June. So, wondering when United will update the Summer schedule with the new configuration. A also doubt that theyll have two daily flights to MEL (SFO,LAX).
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Old Jan 13, 22, 4:27 pm
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The August schedule will probably be updated around June.
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Old Jan 13, 22, 8:50 pm
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Even though they're planning on all planes to be P+/Polaris equipped by then, the seat maps are based off of the number of planes now that are P+/Polaris equipped. They do this to avoid having to downgrade people if for some reason the project doesn't get completed on time. Mrs. and I have a vacation EWR-IAH-SYD, and MEL-LAX-EWR in late July/early August, well after they expect completion of the project, but just like in your case, they still show the old seat maps. I'm really hoping that the seat maps change over early enough that we can choose desirable seats once our current selection gets thrown out the door. Honestly, since they can't commit to P+ on all 789 flights until 100% of in service now Polaris/P+ equipped, Australia flights make sense to be the ones to leave with the old seat maps, due to the uncertainty of the future of those flights.

Currently there are 9 old-birds left in service, soon to be 7, and that number should be down to 4 by the end of March, so maybe we'll see some action then.
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Old Jan 13, 22, 8:55 pm
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Originally Posted by newyorkaviation
Trying to book Premium Economy United flights from EWR-MEL for late August. Unfortunately, the website is still showing the old 789 configuration on that route. The CEO has confirmed that all 789 will be refurbished with the new interior by June. So, wondering when United will update the Summer schedule with the new configuration. A also doubt that theyll have two daily flights to MEL (SFO,LAX).
In these times so far out any aircraft type and schedule is just a hope by the airline. Not a 100% certainty.
You may also need to consider SYD.
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Old Jan 14, 22, 3:28 am
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I have a flight booked for July and was surprised at the old 2-2-2 configuration so very glad to read this.
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March 24th - May 5th updating at the moment. Had a 175 turn into a 170, and a few mins gained and lost on a couple itineraries.

For the last several months, this second major update meant the schedule was relatively firm, but I’d expect more changes as Omicron ebbs and flows…Recent updates (Wednesday, 2 days ago) removed even January flights from the schedule.

Good luck and may your 737s become 767s!
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April schedule changes loading. Got a few domestic changes; some more some less disruptive.
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Old Jan 16, 22, 12:31 am
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Good luck and may your 737s become 767s!
Wonderful New Years wish!
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