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Old Nov 21, 2012, 6:31 pm
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Consolidated "EWR-HNL (Seating, Meals, Service, etc.) Questions" Thread {Archive]
I am finally getting ready to book award flight UA14 HNL to EWR for next October and was pleasantly surprised to see they had an equipment change and now have all lie down first class seats. Do you think this is just an odd change for that date or a permanent change?
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Old Nov 21, 2012, 7:05 pm
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Originally Posted by gogiantsfan11
I am finally getting ready to book award flight UA14 HNL to EWR for next October and was pleasantly surprised to see they had an equipment change and now have all lie down first class seats. Do you think this is just an odd change for that date or a permanent change?
Thanks..
All 764s including the 4 76H aircraft will have flatbed seating so yes it's a permanent change, unless of course UA decides to switch the flight to a domestic 2-cabin 777.
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Old Nov 21, 2012, 8:03 pm
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Originally Posted by JOSECONLSCREW28
All 764s including the 4 76H aircraft will have flatbed seating so yes it's a permanent change, unless of course UA decides to switch the flight to a domestic 2-cabin 777.

Definitely a change I'll like ^, though I did notice they changed my LAX->HNL to a 737-800 (from a lie-flat 757-200). Just requested a re-routing to the direct based on that equipment change.
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January is not lie flat ewr hnl ewr
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Old Nov 21, 2012, 10:02 pm
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Originally Posted by JOSECONLSCREW28
All 764s including the 4 76H aircraft will have flatbed seating so yes it's a permanent change, unless of course UA decides to switch the flight to a domestic 2-cabin 777.
Well, the conversion of the "domestic" 777s is starting in early 2013, with the intent to serve Hawaii and beyond. By next October I would expect an aircraft swap on the route, dumping the 764 for a 772.
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Old Nov 21, 2012, 10:34 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
Well, the conversion of the "domestic" 777s is starting in early 2013, with the intent to serve Hawaii and beyond. By next October I would expect an aircraft swap on the route, dumping the 764 for a 772.
Does the pmUA "domestic" 777s has the range to do the EWR-HNL?

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January is not lie flat ewr hnl ewr
Disappointed
Apparently, the swapping of the 767H to 767-400ER starts from 4/30/13 from EWR.

I am disappointed too. I have a EWR-HNL in later Jan'13
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Old Nov 21, 2012, 10:42 pm
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Originally Posted by JOSECONLSCREW28
All 764s including the 4 76H aircraft will have flatbed seating so yes it's a permanent change, unless of course UA decides to switch the flight to a domestic 2-cabin 777.
Just wondering, I just flew on one of the 4 Hawai'i configuration 764s you list on your page last week from SFO to HNL and it did not yet have E+, though I was fortunatly able to get an aisle seat in the mini-cabin. You don't list the no E+ in red, so is UA not going to add E+ to these four aircraft? That's pretty lame if they won't, it was a really nice plane but the E- leg room was pretty bad.
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Old Nov 21, 2012, 11:03 pm
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Just wondering, I just flew on one of the 4 Hawai'i configuration 764s you list on your page last week from SFO to HNL and it did not yet have E+, though I was fortunatly able to get an aisle seat in the mini-cabin. You don't list the no E+ in red, so is UA not going to add E+ to these four aircraft? That's pretty lame if they won't, it was a really nice plane but the E- leg room was pretty bad.
Yes these 4 76H once reconfigured will be the exact same as the 39/203 configuration you can find on United.com (which btw they really need to update the site) As the last 35/200 configured 764 is currently in HKG undergoing conversion.
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Old Nov 22, 2012, 12:29 am
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Originally Posted by JOSECONLSCREW28
Yes these 4 76H once reconfigured will be the exact same as the 39/203 configuration you can find on United.com (which btw they really need to update the site) As the last 35/200 configured 764 is currently in HKG undergoing conversion.
That's good to hear, though based on the seat maps for the 39/203 does that mean that they will actually move the forward galleys on the 4 76Hs and do away with the mini-cabin? I like the seperate space, almost feels like more of an exclusive Premium E cabin, and it would be even better with E+!
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Old Nov 22, 2012, 12:36 am
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That's good to hear, though based on the seat maps for the 39/203 does that mean that they will actually move the forward galleys on the 4 76Hs and do away with the mini-cabin? I like the seperate space, almost feels like more of an exclusive Premium E cabin, and it would be even better with E+!
Yes the 4 76H aircraft will look exactly like the 39/203 configuration when they are done with reconfiguration.
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Old Nov 22, 2012, 4:55 am
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Originally Posted by jerseygirl
January is not lie flat ewr hnl ewr
Disappointed
Do EWR-IAh-HNL the IAH-HNL is a 3 class 777 nice ride to hawaii.
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Old Nov 22, 2012, 8:54 am
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Originally Posted by fly2lanai
Does the pmUA "domestic" 777s has the range to do the EWR-HNL?
Even though the denser configuration of the PMUA 777 would reduce its range, this is an a/c capable of doing NYC-HKG, so the much shorter EWR-HNL would be no problem.
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Sorry for being a newbie at this but what you are saying is even though right now for oct 2013 they are showing a 767-400ER with lie flat FC seats, you think they will switch that aircraft to a pmua777(which is what?) what kind of first class seats is that? Would I be better off to be on the safe side just booking HNL to IAH to EWR?
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Old Nov 22, 2012, 9:45 am
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Even though the denser configuration of the PMUA 777 would reduce its range, this is an a/c capable of doing NYC-HKG, so the much shorter EWR-HNL would be no problem.
There are a few different versions of the 777-200. UA owns both the 777-200ER and 777-200. The ER version has the range to do the HKG flights but the 777-200 non-ER (a/k/a 77A) type doesn't. It can make EWR-HNL and back just fine, but not all the way to Asia from the east coast.

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Old Nov 22, 2012, 9:48 am
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Originally Posted by gogiantsfan11
Sorry for being a newbie at this but what you are saying is even though right now for oct 2013 they are showing a 767-400ER with lie flat FC seats, you think they will switch that aircraft to a pmua777(which is what?)
Yes.

Originally Posted by gogiantsfan11
what kind of first class seats is that?
It will be basically the legacy p.s. C seat.

Originally Posted by gogiantsfan11
Would I be better off to be on the safe side just booking HNL to IAH to EWR?
Thanks.
It'll likely be the same config at that point. The company is building the subfleet (9 of them) out over the coming months with the intent of all the long-haul or heavy lifting being on the 77As.
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