United's New 777-300ER Is Now Bookable -- Here's What You Need To Know

"over time I suspect that will change somewhat, though at the same time San Francisco to Hong Kong is one of the more premium-heavy routes in United’s network"

United currently flies a 747 from San Francisco to Hong Kong with no PTVs in economy.

Are you planning to fly United soon, seeing as you're no longer banned from flying them?

Amazing that people are getting excited about United getting a plane that's been around a decade.

@Dan .. crikey .. really? Lucky was never banned from flying on United planes. Let's put this one to rest finally?

@Dan He was banned from MileagePlus but, not UA and has flown them twice since August.
Lucky,
You should start constantly looking out for space on the SFO-HKG route everywhere after March 25 (ANA, Lifemiles, Aeroplan, etc.) and you will eventually find that seat that you're looking for.

I live in Silicon Valley, working for a company headquartered 25 miles west of EWR, so yes, I'll probably be on this. I'll try to avoid it (10 across? Ugh!), but those are convenient times for me. I don't see corporate travel policies covering Polaris. Will CPUs be available for million milers, I wonder?

@vand @Hugh - Perhaps you should read the Rolling Stone article:

"He was banned from flying [United], he recalls the letter saying, unless he paid the company $4,755 — the amount it claimed as losses through Schlappig's techniques."

If he was just banned from MileagePlus then why no reviews of UA for years? I'm guessing he has now paid UA hence UA news/reviews suddenly re-appearing..

I checked out the seats at a UA event and both Polaris hard and soft products are a huge improvement for them...dare I say I might not miss Global First when they finally axe it?? The odd numbered window seats will definitely be the ones to pick in Polaris (for privacy). As soon as award space opens to HKG I'll be booking a seat!

Dan, Rolling Stone is not exactly the NYT or Washington Post. As for the reappearance of United posts, it probably has to do with the the AAdvantage program being as bad as United's now.

I would have thought that with ORD being UA's primary hub, their HKG-ORD flight #896 on a 772 I am taking in mid-January and is my usual return path to the US from SE Asia would have been a prime candidate for Polaris test runs...

Oh, well, it'll get there soon enough...

@chancer - True, but do you have a better source that he was just banned from MileagePlus?

Lucky usually censors, deletes and bans people who comment about his own UA ban.. Perhaps UA forgave the debt in exchange for 'advertising'.

Dan, you're missing the point. The only people being annoyed by incessant chatter about a United ban are the readers here.

Certainly a huge improvement and I look forward to your review whenever that happens. It's a shame it will take years to upgrade the fleet to Polaris standards and in the meantime, new technologies may become available. With the huge profits the big three are earning currently, it would be nice if they could speed up the process of these retrofits and new aircraft.

Is Tuesday cheaper cause the 77W doesn't fly the route that day?

United is such trash. And Polaris is a joke. Anyone that goes out of their way to fly this trash should have their head examined.

Polaris appears to be a copy of the new international business class that ANA flies. I just did this from NRT-LAX on an ANA 777-ER and found it claustrophobic and not particularly comfortable.

I fly the NYC/EWR to SF and LA transcon at least 1x/month. In fact in the last 3 months i was on this route every two weeks. I will test out Polaris but only at the sub $700 fare, not worth it IMHO to shell out 2x for a UA Polaris flight. I'm a DL Diamond, have been Plat in the past and will be Plat going into 2017 but only because i started flying UA and Jetblue as alternates b/c of price and availability. May be shifting most of my business to Jetblue, impressed with the company and wanted to try them out after reading Lucky's reviews. I have noticed that this route is becoming increasingly competitive, UA, DL and Jetblue all offering one way lay flat/biz class between $600-$800 consistently.

@Lucky The United Flight leaves Newark at 7:00 am and out of San Fran at 12:50 pm

@Lucky Not trying to be mean or anything because I love your blog and I just want to help you out because I know you are a busy traveler.

Lucky, you should book a Tuesday flight then catch JetBlue Mint on the way back, that would be the ULTIMATE test.

So this means less premium seats on SFO-HKG route on UA compared to 747's. The GPU's are getting even more worthless ..... Or am I missing something?
I'm the last one from a team of 50 that flies UA to HKG and PVG, 7 years ago we all used to fly UA. Even with Polaris nobody from my team is going back to UA, and I'm switching to SQ, CX, etc.. I don't care about 1K status if UA doesn't appreciate my loyalty.
Goodbye UA, I waited too long, now it's too late to win me back ...

@Bruce B I don't think ANA has the same seats as United. Also it's custom designed just for United (for now).