United Schedules First 787-10 Routes (With New Polaris & Premium Economy Seats)

Great product for transcon. That’ll give American a run for their money

there actually is a refitted 772 going around with polaris and premium plus

Weird that they blocked out the "middle" seats on the outsides of premium economy, rather than actually showing it as 2-3-2.

According to the original United seatmap from the FA manual, there will be economy plus seats. Those show up as regular economy seats on the map because it has not been updated yet, but if you are not an elite and you go to select those seats, you will be unable to do so.

Economy plus will be the first 5 rows of the economy section.

Also, premium plus seats are not showing on the seatmap. They will be sold as economy plus on these domestic routes.

How comical that the seat map has to show the fuselage getting wider at the start of Economy (to accommodate 9-across seating). LOL

@lucky - United does have 5 aircraft with premium plus seats, they're just being sold as economy plus right now.

Booked an award ticket on the first flight LAX-EWR. I picked a seat at the front (of economy), so hopefully that sticks as economy plus.

There is already a 777-200 with Premium Plus. Last I checked it was flying EWR-CDG.

With the upcoming introduction of Premium Plus, can we expect booking premium econ on United tickets aboard other other Star Alliance metal to open up as well?

Talk about timing. UAs recent announcement of capping RPUs and eliminating unlimited RPUs for 1Ks before announcing this rollout shouldn't be a surprise.

Per UA, this aircraft will have 54 Economy Plus seats.

So they are going to fly Polaris transcontinental when they still have international routes with the old seats. Strange!

The 787 cabin is significantly narrower than the 777 cabin, and they are retaining the 4 abreast configuration in Polaris. It is already slightly cramped in the 777 so I have no idea how they will make this work and am worried about the space.

I just tried a dummy booking and the first 8 rows of econ are marked as Economy Plus.

Ben from the time you posted a picture of that seatmap above, UA has actually updated the seat map on their website for that flight to reflect the new Polaris seats, premium plus seats location and normal economy plus seats location. Check it out! Cheers!

@ RD -- Thanks for the heads up, updated the post to reflect that!

Unbelievable. They can't get real Polaris on most of the overseas routes but they manage to put it on transcon? Bizarre decision. I guess enough people are tolerating the old 2x4x2 business class to Europe etc, to make it worth not replacing... Wish someone would do an article on this farce that is Polaris in only about 20% of their planes after how long?

Based upon my reading of the UA press release, this is a long term play on the transcon market to compete with B6, AA, and DL and not just for training flights.

Does regular econ have IFE or is this a downgrade from the 757s?

Looks like UA has these 781 flights set up to feed their international flights out of LAX/SFO - so makes sense to keep it permanent.

Wow. American will probably suffer greatly with this. Why would anyone pay more $$ to fly their mediocre First when you get the same (or even better) individual seat for less....

Any word when or even if the existing -9's will get true Polaris? UA's progress board shows https://view.ceros.com/united/polaris-tracker-desktop-4/p/1 NONE!. Ironic even the Website is messed up. Kinda sad UA's longest flights such as IAH to SYD still have 2-2-2 in biz and yet a transcon -10 hop gets real Polaris..UA management needs a shuffle..

Just booked this flight with my dad, gonna be our first Inaugural flight! really excited

We're flying a 787 route from DEN-IAD in Polaris in December. It looks like that route will start using the 787's late this month ...

@Melissa, it appears that's the 787-8 not the 787-10 with Polaris seats. Interesting though that they'd be flying this on DEN-IAD.

There have been some interesting rumors with United's 787-10's. Routes I've heard rumors of are:
SFO-HGH
SFO-BKK
LAX-FRA
IAH-DXB
SFO or LAX-BNE
IAH-PVG
IAH-PEK
EWR-GIG
EWR-JED
EWR-IST
There's another one about an IAH-JNB and IAH-CPT but that seems unlikely.

Hey there. FA here. For the confused, per the FAA, new aircraft have to fly domestic for 6 months before flying any international.