United has announced today a purchase of 29 new aircraft, including 25 Embraer E175s and four Boeing 787-9s. While 29 planes is a lot, when you consider that 25 of them are regional jets going to their regional subsidiaries, that's not quite as exciting as it sounds. United will take delivery of 25 new Embraer…
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I see more coming. UA has its earnings call on the 18th and they generally announce large aircraft orders the day before.
Why is United so special? So many airlines bought planes at Farnborough, e.g. the new Taiwanese Starlux bought 25 A350. But you report on some United order for some 25 regional 70 seaters only.
Unbelievable. And those POS 145s are still going to be flying around?? Order the damn CS series for the love of God!
I love those 175s. Great ratio of first class and premium economy seats, good overhead bins, and 2 bathrooms that aren't too cramped.
Great news. Gotta keep the ball rolling at Embraer, they deserve the business.
I'll take an ERJ-145 over a CRJ-200 every day of the week. The 200 is the plane UA needs to replace ASAP, along with the wretched 772 with 8-abreast in biz...
Latest 787 orders:
UA 4
AA 47
DL 0 (but 50 a330/350 few years back, and typical DL likely pre-owned 787 after more airlines are done with them)
Scott Kirby needs to up his game.
United? New planes?
I haven't seen those words in the same sentence for decades!
Very curious to see what United will do with the E-175s. Standard configuration is 76 seats but United is maxed out on 76-seaters per scope clauses. Since the new E-jets will replace CRJ-700s 1:1 they can only have 70 seats... perhaps United will mirror Delta and remove a row and add a closet?
The cargo holds of the Embraer E-170/175/190/195 awful tight due to the low ceiling. It is a pleasure to (un)load a CRJ in comparison.
Finally some news of the 787 getting Polaris seats. Will UA put this on SFO-SIN?
@ RF -- Tough to say given that this is still at least a couple of years out! Hopefully they start reconfiguring some other 787s before 2020.
Was looking at HPN-ORD-HPN (regional route but a premium base on the HPN end) and I couldn't believe it was a CR2. This would be a good place to start, embarrassing for UA to put the Devil's Chariot on a 2:40 route (westbound).
@Sam Roeker - Nice catch. Blast those darn unions. FYI, the contract is amendable in Jan 2019. So MAYBE Kirby got things right this time or this could be a disaster few months when talks with the union breaks down and cancels the E175.
OR OR OR, Kirby back stabs investors/unions/Embraer before earnings call, by sealing the E175s BEFORE negotiating with the unions about the clause.
Many orders have been placed at the farnborough airshow so far, but we have not heard much on here. Can you post a list of all the orders placed when it is over? Would be cool to look at.