Originally Posted by
CALFO
Thanks for the factual post. I wasn't aware of any option for A320's. Still doesn't explain why those options weren't exercised earlier.
FWIW, the current delivery slots are for 2013-14. It's getting pretty close to the time when UAL will need to fish-or-cut-bait for 2013, but these aircraft have been renegotiated several times so another change would not be surprising. In addition, UAL already paid the deposits but later wrote the value of the deposits off the books to follow accounting rules so if these birds ever appear they will be accompanied by a positive accounting change.
Airbus has the United options listed in their downloadable spreadsheet
here.