United Airlines Archives

Wanna Take A Bus To The Plane?

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Kerwin

United Airlines Introduces Bus Service from Breckenridge and Fort Collins to Denver Taking a bus to a plane is nothing new in the aviation industry. Currently, you can actually "fly" from Allentown, PA (ABE) to Newark-Liberty (EWR) on a bus though. I actually flew that route many years back. I boarded the bus at the curve and drove to Newark and was dropped off at the curb. Fast forward to...

Trip Report: Flight United 1 (UA1) San Francisco, CA (SFO) to Singapore (SIN) in 25 Photos

Posted on June 4, 2016April 16, 2018 by Kerwin

United 1: Airplane at gate in SIN. I tried to get a better shot, but the gate location and angle prevented it.

UA1/1 June 2016 San Francisco, CA (SFO) to Singapore (SIN) N36962| Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Depart: 10:55p Arrive: 6:15a two days later; 3 June 2016 United Airlines.com | twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube Ultra long flights are now a thing again and some months back United announced that they would be flying from San Francisco to Singapore which is a distance of 8,446M/13,593KM. Th...

Airline Service Review: United Airlines (UA369) New York-LaGuardia (LGA) to Houston-Intercontinental, TX (IAH)

Posted on February 1, 2015February 13, 2015 by Kerwin

Airline Service Review - United Airlines 369 - LGA to IAH

UA369/29Jan2015 New York-LaGuardia (LGA) to Houston-Intercontinental, TX (IAH) N???UA | Airbus A320-200 United.com | twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube Earlier this month, United sent me an email saying they had a sale to a few destinations out of Houston, TX (IAH). One other reason to subscribe to the emails from airlines. I checked around and saw that I could get a $211.00 fare...

Airplane Roll Out: United Airlines Rolls Out Their Boeing 787-8 (N20904) in Everett, WA

Posted on July 31, 2012December 8, 2014 by cruisinaltitude

This morning (31 July, 2012) at 8:00a CT, United Airlines (UA) rolled out their spanking new Boeing 787 with a live cast . It was nicely done and simple. One plane, one tow truck. I captured some screenshots from the live broadcast for you below in case you missed it. They will have a repeat of the broadcast on 2 August. Enjoy and leave a comment and share it with your friends. Great show Uni...

Computer outage disrupts operations at United Airlines

Posted on June 17, 2011 by cruisinaltitude

If you were flying on United Airlines today, June 17, 2011, you more than likely had some issues due to a computer outage. Here is what their Web site is reporting: This evening, United Airlines experienced a computer outage interrupting the airline’s flight departures, airport processing and reservations systems. As a result, customers may experience difficulties completing transactions at unite...