Originally posted by mikeconnell
I always walk round to T2 if I have a wait simply because there’s an excellent frozen yoghurt stand there. Mike

Is this at ORD, Mike?

Ok, since you’re flying UA, it’s going to be too easy. As I mentioned, upon you’re arrival into T5, you’re going to claim your luggage, go through customs and immigration, and upon exiting all that, there will be an interline baggage belt. You just put your baggage onto that on your own (or some handlers will be there to assist you) and go to the monorail to T1. I’m assuming UA will have given you your boarding pass for your New Orleans flight already, so you’ll just have to pass through security again at T1. When I had to connect at ORD on UA from LHR, it didn’t take me that long to connect to my flight to SFO, so you should ok with your allotted time. As far as your return goes, to my knowledge, all UA flights depart T1 Intl or domestic. The Intl terminal(T5) is only used for arrivals. That is probably done because it makes it that much easier to connect, and you won’t have to go through security when connecting from domestic to Intl. It’s not like that at all airports. UA at LAX operates all flights out of 3 terminals that are all connected, meaning you don’t have to go through security to go from one to the other (it wasn’t like that about 10 years ago), unlike you’re arriving from international connecting to domestic. UA at SFO operates all domestic flights out of Terminals 6 and 7, which are connected, and operate all International arrivals and departures(unlike ORD) out of the Intl terminal. They are adjacent to one another so it’s only a short walk. UA at IAD is similar to LAX. I’ve never arrived UA internationally at DEN or JFK, just departed at JFK, so I’m not sure how they work there, but I’m sure they are similar to the LAX situation since they operate all flights out of the same terminals at both those airports. Hope this has all been of some help.

Nice Ren, as usual.

I hate to spoil your fun, theplane, but UA’s economy class cabin on their 744’s don’t have PTV’s like their 777’s and 763’s do. Unless they’ve started to retrofit them like they were talking about prior to 9/11, you’ll just have to watch the movie they have on offer. Otherwise, the seats and everything else are the same. Of course, the first and business class cabins are the same on either aircraft. Me, personally, I don’t care either way. I log over 40,000 miles per year on UA (roughly another 10,000 on their partners), and I rarely have complaints about their service.

Originally posted by steve rowell
It’s hard to say whether that was the same aircraft, Ansett had the whole fleet of 767s parked there at one stage

This one was parked right next to the terminal. We literally walked right past it upon getting off our DJ flight en route to the terminal. Typically when aircraft are parked, they are nowhere near the terminal, but out at a remote location.

I flew to MEL in August of 2002. Is this the same Ansett 767 that was just parked on the tarmac at that time, Steve? We got off our Virgin Blue flight and we walked right by it on the tarmac en route to the terminal.

I think it’s just as fine in the IL-86. 😉 Especially the light blue on the 4 cowlings as opossed to 2.

Go back and delete it.