Originally Posted by
AAL24
I should have said “almost exclusively” narrow body airline. UAL has a much higher percentage of widebody flying. AAL and UAL are not close when it comes to international network and widebody fleets. I think my original statement is correct. If a future newhire has widebody aspirations they are much better off going to United. If they want a quick upgrade then AAL is probably the better choice. Yes I expect United will replace group 4 acft 1:1 with 787s or 777x.
https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/u...expansion/amp/
UAL has 200 widebody acft out of 610 total or 33% (according to APC)
AAL has 112 widebody acft out of 835 or 13%.
United also has a lot more 4 Pilot routes which drives higher staffing on group 4 acft.
I'm gonna disagree slightly about the upgrade. So long as you're ok with the reserve rules, upgrade at United right now on the NB can quite literally be: off probation and 500 company hours. There have been dozens of unfilled captain vacancies in the past 6 months. Yes that means guys with a year to two years seniority could have upgraded but said no thanks
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