United Airlines: It's Time to Fly (United Airlines)

Member Name: nitrocide

Product:	United Airlines
Date:	29/05/08 (219 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: very reliable, departs on time, friendly crew

Disadvantages: crew could be fairly old

United Airlines operates from O'Hare International Airport (Chicago), Denver International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport. Its focus city is Narita international airport, Tokyo, Japan. It offers 210 with a fleet size of 457 planes and 17 on order. United Airlines headquarters are located in Chicago, Illinois and its part of the star alliances cooperation. United Airlines was founded in 1926 as Boeing air transport and can now be found on airfields under the name UA for IATA (International Airline Transport Association) and UAL for ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization.
The Fleet consists out of the following planes:
* 55 Airbus 319-100
* 97 Airbus 320-200
* 64 Boeing 737-300
* 30 Boeing 737-500
* 29 planes and 1 order on the Boeing 747-400
* 97 Boeing 757-200
* 33 planes and 2 orders on the Boeing 767-300ER
* 19 planes and 6 orders on the Boeing 777-200
* 33 planes and 8 orders on the Boeing 777-200ER

United Airlines offers 3 classes to be seated in: United Economy, United Business and United First class.

There are 32 known accidents and incident that have occurred to United Airlines with a total of 423 death and 482 survivors. This is fairly good since United Airlines has been operating for 82 years. 2 planes of United Airlines where hijacked during 9/11, a Boeing 767-222 better known as flight 175 which crashed into the south tower of the WTC, and a Boeing 757-222 better known as flight 93 (which has been in the movie flight 9) which crashed in rural Pennsylvania.

My Experience with United Airlines:

Personally I think United Airlines is a good company it is very reliable as most to all of its flight were on time and the crew is friendly. When we flew with them places in the economy class on the 767-300ER were roomy just how it should be.

Problems with crew could be that they are fairly old, don't ask me why but that just seems the case, however they are very friendly.

Food is offered on board on most flights, they contain of 1 or 2 meals (breakfast, dinner or lunch). The food offered is just like any other airplane food (not that good). Breakfast consist of croissants and an omelet nothing special really.

Planes are fairly new however some of the 747 could be quiet old but their well kept and maintained. I haven't found a plane I don't like as the paint has fallen of or something looks broken.

Prices are OK ranging from good value to cheap to expensive depending on the location.

United Airlines has onboard entertainment on most long haul flight and they are working on putting personal TV's on every seat on all long haul flight.

Thanks for reading -Nitrocide-

Summary: Good Company to fly