Comments on: United Details Plans for Ted’s Death

By: CheapRTW » Blog Archive » Upgrades and Downgrades: United’s Ted, backscatter x-rays, and chorizo smugglers!

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:29:56 +0000

[...] will be incorporated back into the United mainline fleet, just one closet and one galley lighter. Cranky has the breakdown. More fun maps for SeatGuru to draw [...]

By: myriam

myriam — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:53:24 +0000

I can say that I will miss the little orange stripe on their overhead bins.

By: Alex C

Alex C — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:51:18 +0000

I think most of the preimium passengers connecting onwards from or to LAS/PHX probably just booked on US, in which case that would be an entirely different look on their faces.

By: CF

CF — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:25:33 +0000

Alex C – bmvaughn is right. I somehow forgot to mention Phoenix and Vegas as being part of the plan, but almost all flights to those destinations were Ted. It must have been fun seeing the look on the faces of those premium passengers flying from Europe through Washington only to realize that they were stuck in coach for more than four hours to Vegas.

By: bmvaughn

bmvaughn — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:28:13 +0000

Alex C – Ted was for leisure destinations. That’s what LAS is. End of story.

By: Alex C

Alex C — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:40:57 +0000

Cranky, maybe you can enlighten me about a few aspects of Ted…

You mention that it was started as an operation primarily out of DEN to combat Frontier, but LAS definitely seemed to be a focus for Ted… LAS was/is exclusively Ted, and with service to every North American UA hub (SFO, LAX, DEN, ORD, and IAD). I just don’t understand how it fit into the strategy of the airline except to be competitive with WN to its hubs. Even then, why EXCLUSIVELY Ted?

By: CF

CF — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:17:59 +0000

Nicholas – Yeah, I would agree that you wouldn’t want to pull the planes out of service just to add a row if you could avoid it. But that doesn’t mean they couldn’t announce their plans to do so. That tells me they haven’t quite figured out what they’re going to do yet.

SAN Greg – Used to, but I left in 2005. I think that I should have stayed on to help with the rebranding effort . . . .

By: SAN Greg

SAN Greg — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:27:19 +0000

Brett – I *love* the re-branding job. You are a cost-cutting GENIUS! Are you sure you don’t work for UAL?

By: Nicholas Barnard

Nicholas Barnard — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:36:41 +0000

Hmm, woudn’t a C check be the time to upgrade the 320s to the 32S configuration? It makes sense to standardize the fleet, but no faster than you’d have to…

On the other hand I’m still amazed United made it out of Ch 11, and isn’t in Ch 7, although I’m rooting for Ch 7.

By: 2008 October 28 » Upgrade: Travel Better

2008 October 28 » Upgrade: Travel Better — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:07:17 +0000

[...] will be incorporated back into the United mainline fleet, just one closet and one galley lighter. Cranky has the breakdown. More fun maps for SeatGuru to draw [...]