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This is a list of United's widebody aircraft undergoing the new interior conversions. Thanks to UnitedSkies for the initial data and everyone else on the Mileage Plus forum for their input.

Updated: 21 November 2008 by mahasamatman.

Progress Summary
Completed aircraft: 20 out of 91 (21.9%) (+1 in progress)
Completed B747-400s: 9 out of 24 (37.5%) (+1 in progress)
Completed B767-300s: 11 out of 21 (52.4%) (+1 in progress)
Completed B777-200s: 0 out of 46 (0.0%)
(Grounded 747s have been removed from the table - the 24 total assumes an additional three groundings, based on information such as this press release.)

747 conversions are currently scheduled for 26 days, and 767 conversions for 21 days. Note that these are not commitments, but only approximations.

Key
unmodified in progress complete


747-400 (9/24)
N104UA N105UA N107UA N116UA N117UA N118UA N119UA N120UA N121UA
N122UA N127UA
IN 11 Nov
OUT ~07 Dec
N128UA N171UA N173UA N174UA N175UA N177UA N178UA
N179UA N180UA N181UA N182UA N187UA N194UA N197UA N198UA N199UA


767-300 (11/21)
N641UA N642UA N643UA N644UA N646UA N647UA N648UA
N649UA N651UA N652UA N653UA N654UA N655UA N656UA
N657UA N658UA N659UA N660UA
IN 11 Nov
OUT ~02 Dec
N661UA N662UA N663UA


Note: The 777 conversions are delayed due to a problem with updating the Y cabin seats. Expect to see the modified 777s appearing around September 2009.

777-200 (0/46)
209-229 are XP; all others are XC/XI
N204UA N206UA N209UA N216UA N217UA N218UA N219UA N220UA N221UA N222UA
N223UA N224UA N225UA N226UA N227UA N228UA N229UA N768UA N769UA N771UA
N772UA N773UA N774UA N775UA N776UA N777UA N778UA N779UA N780UA N781UA
N782UA N783UA N784UA N785UA N786UA N787UA N788UA N791UA N792UA N793UA
N794UA N795UA N796UA N797UA N798UA N799UA


AM I ON A PLANE WITH THE NEW INTERIOR??? (The perennial question on FlyerTalk!)

The seating charts on united.com have been deemed notoriously unreliable in terms of determining if a particular flight is in fact one of the planes with the new seating configuration.

(That is, currently, at least for 3-class 767-300s, it appears United.com is almost always displaying the seating charts for the new interior [e.g., Y starts at Row 19 and its starboard-most seats are "J" and "K"], even when the new configuration is not truly scheduled for the flight. And the web site continues to show the new seat map up until seat selection goes under airport control.)

Current conventional wisdom is that (starting about 7 days before a scheduled flight) unitedcargo.com is a much more reliable indicator of which configuration will in fact be used on a given flight. Here is how to check:

  1. Go to unitedcargo.com
  2. In the right-most column, under "Other Tools", click on "Check Flight Schedule"
  3. Select the appropriate date plus "From" and "To" info; click on "Submit>>"
  4. Look for the flight number of interest

If "Type of Aircraft" shows "47C" or "67I" (as opposed to "B747" or "B767"), that says the aircraft is currently scheduled to be the new configuration.

YMMV. And last minute changes and equipment substitutions do happen...

(Note: From unitedcargo.com, using the "Flight Status" feature and inputting a value for "Flight Number" does not show any info for "Type of Aircraft".)

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