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United Will Launch Longest 787 Dreamliner Route, San Francisco To Singapore Covering 8433 Miles

Übermittelt vor 8 Jahren

United Airlines has announced that it plans to start scheduled service between its hub in San Francisco, SFO, and Singapore, SIN, starting June 1st using a Boeing 787-900 Dreamliner configured with 48 in Business First and 204 in couch. The 8,433 mile route according to United Airlines will take approximately... (www.thefloridanewsjournal.com) Mehr...

Alejandro S

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TWA55 vor 8 Jahren 1

One more way to cause passengers more pain, how true, over 8 hours and that is pushing things, would give me real cause to look elsewhere for a more comfortable trip.I guess they won't be happy till someone flies around the world in coach, e gods

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TWA55 vor 8 Jahren 1

One last thought, they say the aircraft has to fly to make money, things must not be too great at United.

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Ric Wernicke vor 8 Jahren -4

Why does United think that I want to transit through Baghdad-by-the-Bay to get to Singapore? Los Angeles is where the passengers are, and none of them wants to crowd into one of United's cluster jets for the first or last hour of the flight.

Hopefully SQ will bring back the LAX flight now that fuel is cheap enough, and Pres. Trump will keep it that way.

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milypan vor 8 Jahren 1

On a route of this length, the 789 will likely already be weight limited and/or need to do tech stops when the winds are unfavorable. Adding on an extra 45 minutes of flight to LAX would only make things even worse. And, in fairness, the coach seating situation on the UA 787 isn't any better than on their narrow-bodies. In fact, as a frequent United flyer, I'd take one of their E-175 seats over the 787 seats.

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Jim Williams vor 8 Jahren 1

Can't see me sitting for 16:30 WOW

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Jeffrey Johnson vor 8 Jahren 1

And only $5876 one way for business. That's $.70 per mile.

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George Reeve vor 8 Jahren 1

Will United be taking out the Plywood from under the thin seat cushions that are becoming the characteristic/standard of their coach class and will the seats be able to recline from the vertical more than 1inch as we are now subjected to. It was more comfortable flying the Lockheed 1011 or a noisy Viscount in those days than todays squashed flights.

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Allan Main vor 8 Jahren 4

Any flight over 8 hours or so is a total pain so the extra seven or eight are just par for the course. The alternatives are one or two stops with airport layovers that are equally a PITA. Me for one. I prefer to take the pain in one dose and get it over with ASAP. 16 hours NY to HK stirs up some bum numbing memories.

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jeff slack vor 8 Jahren 1

I love the HK to EWR flight but I sit in Business.
I would never, ever, ever do it down the back.

Iam by no stretch of the imagination wealthy, but I always fly up front.
I refuse to fly down the back.

I save a little longer or cut out the moderate or premium hotels and pick up the safest cheapest option to help me buy my seat up front.
You get what you pay for.
Life is short, enjoy your ride.

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bigkahuna400 vor 8 Jahren 2

Boy, this will be a bad flight as the US airlines cannot even come close to competing with international carriers. Can you imagine being stuck in a UAL couch seat with your knees stuck against the seat in front of you for that long. Yuch! When they come up to standards then maybe, but that is a BIG "if".

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william baker vor 8 Jahren 1

Well there goes Singapore Airlines Route lol. United Beat you to it. Hahaha

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Andy Cruickshank vor 8 Jahren 5

I would way sooner fly SIA than UA on that long a haul

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william baker vor 8 Jahren 3

Well yes but I didn't say that. United just beat Singapore to the punch on getting a direct flight to the Us was all I said lol.

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Andy Cruickshank vor 8 Jahren 2

Agreed!!.
Recently ANZ started IAH to Auckland. For us east coasters this beats the hell out of tramping to the west coast. Not SIN I understand but better alternatives. Cheers

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Rajesh Gupta vor 8 Jahren 1

Isn't Air-India already doing it since about 1/1/2015?

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Andy Cruickshank vor 8 Jahren 2

No. They have significant challenges with their fleet of 787s

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Jeffrey Johnson vor 8 Jahren 0

That's code for their maintenance staff.

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Torsten Hoff vor 8 Jahren 2

>> 204 in couch.

That sounds even better than Business First!

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william baker vor 8 Jahren 1

I would hope you didn't try to put 204 on a couch lol. Umm couch or coach sir or ma'am umm I'll take coach please. LOL

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Alejandro S vor 8 Jahren 1

Thanks for the typo alert :-) I agree a couch is probably better than coach seating

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wx1996 vor 8 Jahren 1

The layout does not look so bad.
48 BusinessFirst
88 Economy Plus
116 Economy
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/United_Airlines/United_Airlines_Boeing_787-900.php

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Nick Carlson vor 8 Jahren 4

3-3-3 seating in economy, 17.3" width, 3" recline, 16 hours? Talk about torture! United is supposed to be working on making things less awful. As a starter they might look at JAL' s version with 2-2-2, 18.9" width and 33"pitch. This is far more appropriate for long haul.

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