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United equipment transpacific
Time for the semiannual trip across the Pacific. Anyone done this on
United recently? Has the economy class (or economy plus) experience improved since my last SIN-HKG-SFO-NRT-SIN ordeal? Or is it still the 1972 planes? miguel -- Hit the road! Photos from around the world: http://travel.u.nu Detailed airport information: http://airport.u.nu |
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United equipment transpacific
"Miguel Cruz" wrote in message news:spam-5D1AD8.15564420112006@localhost... Time for the semiannual trip across the Pacific. Anyone done this on United recently? Has the economy class (or economy plus) experience improved since my last SIN-HKG-SFO-NRT-SIN ordeal? Or is it still the 1972 planes? If you can get Economy Plus in a 777, it's tolerable; pray for a biz class upgrade, of course... My last was last month; SFO-NGO-TPE-ICN-NRT-SFO. Sigh. Bob M. |
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United equipment transpacific
"Bob Myers" wrote in message news "Miguel Cruz" wrote in message news:spam-5D1AD8.15564420112006@localhost... Time for the semiannual trip across the Pacific. Anyone done this on United recently? Has the economy class (or economy plus) experience improved since my last SIN-HKG-SFO-NRT-SIN ordeal? Or is it still the 1972 planes? If you can get Economy Plus in a 777, it's tolerable; pray for a biz class upgrade, of course... My last was last month; SFO-NGO-TPE-ICN-NRT-SFO. Sigh. Bob M. United uses 3 types of planes on these routes, 747-400, 777 configuration 1, and 777 configuration 2. They retired their older 747's several years ago. Basically, the 777's are about the same, with configuration 1 having more economy plus seats and less business seats. You can see these configurations on seatguru.com... I probably wouldn't fly United on the transpacific flights if I didn't have so many miles with them. Service will be better on Singapore, Cathay, EVA (especially their new 777's) IMO. Even Northwest has very modern A330's with the new ptv's that pretty much blows United antiquated ptvs away. United really needs to update their ptvs. There's an inherant problem with the sound that stutters and turns on and off during the movies. I've experienced the same problem on many different planes. Sometimes I can't even watch the movie because the sound is so muddled (or off) that makes the movie unwatchable. I think "You, Me and Dupree" is probably a pretty funny movie, but I wouldn't know for sure because the sound was off 80% of the time. Another thing United does sometimes is that they show the eastbound movies on the westbound flights and vice-versa. Someone really needs to pay attention. |
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United equipment transpacific
"Miguel Cruz" wrote in message news:spam-5D1AD8.15564420112006@localhost... Time for the semiannual trip across the Pacific. Anyone done this on United recently? Has the economy class (or economy plus) experience improved since my last SIN-HKG-SFO-NRT-SIN ordeal? Or is it still the 1972 planes? miguel -- Hit the road! Photos from around the world: http://travel.u.nu Detailed airport information: http://airport.u.nu United's oldest 744 is approximately 1988 vintage, but their interior in economy is still the same gray shades. First and Business now have new seats however. |
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United equipment transpacific
"Jeff Hacker" wrote in message om... "Miguel Cruz" wrote in message news:spam-5D1AD8.15564420112006@localhost... Time for the semiannual trip across the Pacific. Anyone done this on United recently? Has the economy class (or economy plus) experience improved since my last SIN-HKG-SFO-NRT-SIN ordeal? Or is it still the 1972 planes? miguel -- Hit the road! Photos from around the world: http://travel.u.nu Detailed airport information: http://airport.u.nu United's oldest 744 is approximately 1988 vintage, but their interior in economy is still the same gray shades. First and Business now have new seats however. Since when? The 744 I flew on a couple weeks ago had the same business seats they've had for years. |
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United equipment transpacific
"Blake S" wrote in message nk.net... I probably wouldn't fly United on the transpacific flights if I didn't have so many miles with them. Service will be better on Singapore, Cathay, EVA (especially their new 777's) IMO. Even Northwest has very modern A330's with the new ptv's that pretty much blows United antiquated ptvs away. Same here; I fly out of Denver, and United gets just about all of my domestic business as a result. So when it comes time to do the overseas stuff - I'm also in Asia about twice a year - they get that too. Could be worse. United really needs to update their ptvs. There's an inherant problem with the sound that stutters and turns on and off during the movies. Most often, I've found that to be a problem in the headphone jack in the seat, and have been able to at least temporarily "fix" it just by wiggling the plug a bit. If this is a system problem you're talking about, I guess I've been lucky on my recent flights. United's food service on the transpacific legs seems to have declined considerably this past year, as well, not that it could hold a candle to, say, Singapore or Thai to begin with. Bob M. |
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