Are these real aircraft or models?

Mike

Originally posted by MINIDOH
Mikeconnell, if an aircraft is dirty and that makes it not airworthy then surely they should clean it. Im not prepared to go into the detail of actually how bad the aircraft was, but take my word for it, it was bad.

I don’t think you quite got the point of my post. I was saying that you can not tell a plane’s airworthyness by its looks. We can take it that Air France’s ships are the most airworthy in the sky (along with pretty well all other US / Western European / First World Asian / Australian majors) – the dirty exterior does not change that – while an airplane that is missing a major component is not made airworthy by a fresh coat of paint.

Mike

Originally posted by Airline owner
I thought this war was between Airbus and Boeing so leave the much missed concorde out of this please:o 😮 😮

But isn’t Concorde an Airbus? It’s as much so as the 717 is a Boeing or the 146 a BAe aircraft.

😀

(Retreats to a safe distance)

Mike

Originally posted by greekdude1
Mike, I have to disagree here. I’ve been premier or premier executive on UA since the end of 1999 so I’ve sat no further aft than row 35 on a UA 744, ever. Row 32-34 can’t be any more cramped than the rest of the Y-class cabin, per se. My favourite seat on UA’s 744’s is actually 35C or 35H because you have the overwing exit row in front of you and unlimited legroom, so I just stretch my legs out all the way and go to sleep and have the toilet literally right next to me. However when those 2 seats aren’t available, I sit in the 3 rows in front of that which are the aforementioned rows. If anything those rows are ‘better’ because it is the Economy plus section and only members such as myself can reserve those ahead of time. Everybody else can only do so upon check-in subject to availability.

As far as frequent flyer programs go, UA’s is top notch. I won’t even get into details because this post will wind up being much longer than it already is. I’ll save that for another. TG’s sounds pretty good also, Michael. I lost all respect I had for LH’s program recently. But again, that’s for another future thread.

Hi Greekdude,

I just got to check this out last week on a UA 744, and I have to stick by my original comments. UAL don’t count 32-34 as Economy Plus, and I would say these have less legroom than normal economy. Also, row 33 doesn’t have a window at either end, and they are pretty poorly located for 32 and 34.

I’m not disputing your knowledge – this is already well proven. Do United have more than one 744 config like on the 777s (the one I checked out was N177UA on UA919 LHR-IAD on Mon 9th Feb)?

BTW, I have to say that if anyone’s flying transatlantic on a UA 777 then the best Economy seats that can be reserved in advance have to be 21H (aisle) and 21J (window). These are behind the crew rest seats and have loads and loads of legroom. I had 21J last night and slept like a baby.

Milage Plus top notch? Agreed wholeheartedly. 🙂 And I got upgraded this morning using a Mileage plus reward ticket on bmi London – Manchester. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Mike

Originally posted by greekdude1
Is this at ORD, Mike?

Yes it is. Transit way from T1 to the right of the airside / landside exit in concourse A (?).

Lovely frozen yoghurt (nice and healthy) with a hot fudge sauce (hmmm).

Mike

Originally posted by greekdude1
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.

Spot on – it’s a nice easy process.

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.

Isn’t the main reason for all international arrivals coming into ORD T5 that it is the only terminal with immigration and customs facilities? The only time I ever flew internationally into any other terminal was into T1,from Toronto, and the US immigration was all taken care of at Pearson before boarding. Like you point out, United send all international departures from T1 because it makes transfers a lot easier, but also because there is no need for any immigration / customs procedure

There are no problems with people having to come through security when changing from international to domestic connections – the security check is just a by-product of T5 being relatively distant from the rest.

O’Hare is much like LAX in that you don’t need to go through security to transfer between domestic terminals – I always walk round to T2 if I have a wait simply because there’s an excellent frozen yoghurt stand there.

Just my 2p

Mike

Originally posted by EAL_KING
air tran love the B717 they kep ordering more and more

Indeed they do, but are they using it as a regional jet?

I don’t regard it as one.

Mike