SabenaForever wrote: ↑27 Aug 2019, 19:59
From Summer 2020 United will introduce the 787 on international routes from ORD replacing the 777. It seems BRU, FRA and MUC are becoming the first routes. Still routes not yet confirmed.
Hoping for the B787-10 which would make two of them daily with UA
Anything but the -10 would mean a downscaling in seats (252 iso 266)... Not that much of a difference though.
Why is UA sending these very capable birds transatlantic from the eastern US? Don't they serve a better purpose transatlantic from the westcoast or transpacific?
SabenaForever wrote: ↑27 Aug 2019, 19:59
From Summer 2020 United will introduce the 787 on international routes from ORD replacing the 777. It seems BRU, FRA and MUC are becoming the first routes. Still routes not yet confirmed.
Hoping for the B787-10 which would make two of them daily with UA
Anything but the -10 would mean a downscaling in seats (252 iso 266)... Not that much of a difference though.
Why is UA sending these very capable birds transatlantic from the eastern US? Don't they serve a better purpose transatlantic from the westcoast or transpacific?
Each replacement of the 777 by a 787 is a downscale
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Hoping for the B787-10 which would make two of them daily with UA
Anything but the -10 would mean a downscaling in seats (252 iso 266)... Not that much of a difference though.
Why is UA sending these very capable birds transatlantic from the eastern US? Don't they serve a better purpose transatlantic from the westcoast or transpacific?
Each replacement off the 777 by a 787 is a downscale
The 787-10 is an upscaling to the B772. 316 vs 266...
SabenaForever wrote: ↑27 Aug 2019, 19:59
From Summer 2020 United will introduce the 787 on international routes from ORD replacing the 777. It seems BRU, FRA and MUC are becoming the first routes. Still routes not yet confirmed.
Hoping for the B787-10 which would make two of them daily with UA
brabel wrote: ↑27 Aug 2019, 23:12
Flightlevel.be says that perhaps united might open San Francisco - Brussels route
@Atlantis, what's your opinion? Is this route in the cards for BRU?
Hi Andre,
Yes, like I mentioned already in the topic: BRU:Star, One world and Skyteam under one roof. There I mentioned the route from San-Francisco
I mentioned also before that some will announce the new routes and open the bookings since the beginning of the Winter season, so new flights as from Summer 2020.
@Atlantis, what's your opinion? Is this route in the cards for BRU?
Hi Andre,
Yes, like I mentioned already in the topic: BRU:Star, One world and Skyteam under one roof. There I mentioned the route from San-Francisco.
I remember you mentioned San Francisco (and Los Angeles), but you also wrote that United's focus was on Houston. Which one will come first?
San Francisco as first and Houston as second. New York was normally second but with using the bigger 787-10 it was not longer high priority as this second flight was going to be with smaller equipment.
Houston still not confirmed yet, but yeah, San Francisco was also very long on the waiting list.
It depends also on how you view it. If UA like DL are putting their brand new business class seats on the BRU routes it means that there is a strong healthy demand up front which is always good (take note LH). The downgrade can also make sense if they will start the SFO flight - which can mean less connecting passengers on their other US flights to BRU.
For SN, from the grapevine (so take it with a pinch of salt) I've heard they are looking at resuming another longhaul flight with a new tag on - but lets see. It's also SN and LH seems to be all over the place on what to do so let's see.
If it is routes that was mentioned previously then there should be at least 2 new ones coming online.
A3 seems to schedule its morning ATH service 50 mins earlier for the summer. All with new A320 neo's.
As far as I can tell, the B77W is hardly ever used by UAL at Brussels. Most of the time, I’d say over 99% of flights, is performed by the B772 whenever a B777 is used.
KriVa wrote: ↑29 Aug 2019, 08:37
As far as I can tell, the B77W is hardly ever used by UAL at Brussels. Most of the time, I’d say over 99% of flights, is performed by the B772 whenever a B777 is used.
Indeed, I think we only saw the 77W once or twice since it entered service at UA.
Delighted to hear about SFO-BRU-SFO, let's hope it gets announced soon.
sounilr21 wrote: ↑30 Aug 2019, 11:21
According with flightlevel, United's flight BRU-ORD will be operate by a 787-10 from april 2020.
Opening BRU-SFO by United is next step ?
Brussels will be a UA "european mini-hub" for 787 ?
For UA, BRU is a real hub, not a mini-hub as something like this is not existing.
By next year an other new flight should be added, SFO.
Like for many years that BRU was an A330 airport, it will be more a B787 airport as this type of aircraft is very well suited for such ops to BRU
Atlantis wrote: ↑25 Aug 2019, 13:15
SN should open more direct flights to business destinations with a high frequency
When they can't fill the planes that would be a loss-making strategy, so it would be stupid to do so...
And why focus on connecting passengers flying to business destinations, and thereby neglecting leisure travelers from your home market? Leave that home market to competitors?