Originally Posted by
Carolsdanger
UAL international operations was a well oiled machine. But hey, the new United managements wisdom is to put the "smallest equipment" that can complete the operation with JUST ONE fuel stop.
Meantime we send our PREMIUM INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS running to Delta and American. Remember the 757 fiasco with flights over the North Atlantic? We sent premium passengers to other carriers to avoid the fuel stop to make connections. Guess who those guys book travel on now - not United.
You can defend them all you want but START SAVING. It can't last very long until it breaks.
Your doom and gloom is getting old. The LCAL 752's are true 9hr airframes and do very well in serving their European cities that cannot support a bigger 767.
The times they have to make a fuel stop are few and far between. I did these runs for 12 years and I'm not making this up.