Originally Posted by malgudi (Post 32369632)

Except that they did guarantee such a thing:

https://twitter.com/ethanjweiss/stat...824385/photo/2​​​​​​

Originally Posted by BF263533 (Post 32362798)

The title of the thread should clarify that United is not mandating the use of masks. Tens of thousands of lives in the US could have been saved if the country was more aggressive in the use of masks. Who is coughing in the grocery store? One of the few not wearing a mask! Simple measures could have saved the economy. If I have to fly it will be on an airline that mandates that passengers must wear masks. If a person has an active cough, they should not be permitted on the flight. On a United flight last year I took a screen shot of the upgrade list to document the coughing passenger in the event of litigation. The person was coughing without even trying to cover her mouth. How many times have you gotten a cold or the flu after a flight?

Originally Posted by JNelson113 (Post 32368592)

I flew United yesterday from IAH-DEN and every seat on the plane was occupied. Part of it seemed to be that about 20-30 standbys were cleared at the gate.

The flight mostly went well although upon landing I saw at least five people just in my immediate area pull their masks down, exposing their noses and mouths. It might be good for United to remind everyone to keep masks on through the deplaning process.

The DEN airport seemed fairly busy and I was surprised by how many people there were not wearing masks, including airport workers.

Originally Posted by CALMSP (Post 32368935)

however, fly a larger plane at a loss of say $100k or fly the right size plane at a loss of $1k. Regardless of the situation, any one of us all know what the right action would be so long as there is no operational safety concern or legal limitation.

Originally Posted by goalie (Post 32368839)

As an example...

goalie-parents are finally flying home PBI-IAD-SFO tomorrow (May, 13th) after pushing their trip from April 15th. The equipment on the only non-stop IAD-SFO is a 319. If goalie-parents are notified that their IAD-SFO flight is more than 70% full and want to take a different flight to fly home, the only non-stop option IAD SFO is the same flight on subsequent days but the small equipment still exists and they could still be met with the same problem the next day, the day after that, the day after that and so on...

My solution: Just fly a larger aircraft and actually block and not sell middle seats. Yes, it might not be economically efficient for UA but UA needs to suck it up during these trying times the same as many of us are

*goalie-parents were originally non-stop FLL-SFO and that got axed and the best option was via IAD (n.b. they are not flying via EWR or IAH as that is, imho, not COVID-smart)

Originally Posted by RedElmo (Post 32369409)

Such liars. Thought they kept sending emails saying were keeping middle seats empty. Airlines lie. Said they were keeping middle seats empty and do everything to protect passengers. . Blah blah blah. https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/05...united-flight/ .

Originally Posted by TEBraniff (Post 32369817)

I don't quite understand your desire to fly via IAD rather than IAH which would seem much smarter, unless the equipment is the issue. I thought UA was flying a 787 on the SFO run last time I checked which admittedily was before the March crisis.

Originally Posted by zombietooth (Post 32369573)

UA doesn't need to make anyone feel comfortable to sell seats. Every flight that I've been on in the last week has been full.

Originally Posted by DELee (Post 32370235)

Here's UA's hub's new language:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...ddedc9bda5.jpg

David

Originally Posted by uastarflyer (Post 32370700)

Your flights are virtually the only flights.

We got 95% of all fleets worldwide grounded already mwahahahahah. The remaining few can be Dreamliners with more proper spacing.

Seriously, you don’t help your point with such silliness. Every news media is 24/7 pandemic. And by defying CDC guidelines UA is pulling a Dao. Don’t they want customers to eventually come back with confidence?

Originally Posted by RedElmo (Post 32370706)

Nope. I would not go back to flying United unfortunately. Too many negative observations these past few months. I’ve disagreed with everything they did. Ranging from 25 hour changes down to 6 hours to lying about keeping passengers safe. The list goes on from before the pandemic. No other airline has so much collective negativity combined.

Originally Posted by gaume (Post 32369756)

Hi, has anyone information on the business class seat blocking ? Two of us will be flying (family issues) and we cannot select seats next to each other. If United backfills, then we will be sitting with strangers, rather than side by side together. Thanks.

Originally Posted by uastarflyer (Post 32370700)

... And by defying CDC guidelines ...