Equipment substitute with TED - post here [Merged Threads]
 

It wasn't my flight but I noticed flight 895 ATL-ORD was Ted equipment today.

Actually, my experiences lately have been the opposite: Ted switched to mainline. Usually resulting in an upgrade. :cool:

SFO-PHX and LAS-LAX are two examples this year. There's something really nice about seeing "United First" on a Ted BP. :D

UA 1265 CLT->ORD
9/16/07

I was booked in 12A on the 319. I was glad 11F was open. I ended up with the whole 3 seats to myself.
After all our seat poaching in E+ threads I did ask the FA if I could get an E+ seat and since we were still on the ground the FAs sent me to the GA. GA said i checked in too early (as a joke) and issued me a new BP pretty quickly.

...I wondered why when i looked into upgrading the second part of my trip before going to the airport that leg showed up as ineligible for upgrade. I thought i was on an RJ...then I saw Teddy waiting for me. The Teddy so many can't Bear.

UA1498, ORD-FLL, 2/21/2007
Ted replaced with mainline 320, 1Ks received comp upgrade to F, 3A

UA1403, FLL-ORD, 2/21/2007
Ted replaced with mainline 320, 1Ks received comp upgrade to F, 3A

Why oh why do the Gods never bless TPA with such a plague?:p

Was there food served in F? Or did you just get handed a package of pretzels and your choice of snack box?

I might keel over in total joy if I saw that!

Oh... you just haven't been lucky. I had a Ted upgrade about a year ago somewhere in FL-DEN. Sat in F seat. Had Ted service.

And if mainline is downgraded to TED, you get TED service. :td:

UA1244 on Sep. 19 SJC-ORD

Checked in on line early morning, and had my F boarding pass. At airport, no one at Easy Chicken machine, so on a whim, went up to re-print boarding pass (no flimsy thermal paper at SJC yet)... surprised when boarding pass said Economy Plus instead of First.

DCA flights
 

I hit the daily double yesterday. 601, DCA-ORD at 6am and 622, ORD-DCA at 5:05pm both switched to TED -- lost two upgrades, but loads were pretty light on both flights. Also, the plane (planes?) were as clean and spiffy as I've seen on UA or anywhere else in quite a while -- TED must have decided to shower and dress nicely for what one hopes was a one-time guest appearance on a Business1 flight. (On the other hand, the flight attendants were joking about whether to play the TED boarding music as we got on....)

Sure, if you happen to be one of the few who get the upgrade.

You also get 20-30 extra E+ seats so a significant number of folks might come out ahead.

In my recent Tedification - MSP-ORD on Sunday, they seemed to move all the E- pax to the back of the bus, resulting in a sea of empty rows in the back half of E+.

While E+ may be better than E-, it's way worse than F, especially when one factors in the service. :td:

ORD-MSP on Sunday afternoon at 4:00 was a Ted flight.