I started with United 10 days out of high school, on June 16, 1997, when United received this plane. I remember everyone, including myself, excited about the new A319s coming to UA at that time. They were and still are way more comfortable than any 737 series. I miss my days at United until 2003! If it wasn’t for 9/11 I would’ve still been there. Now great to see UA trying to be the best like they were in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Great video! As someone who is a new FA for United, it’s a very exciting time given the trajectory United is heading towards and the retrofits is a huge step forward
Congratulations!!! I miss being a flight attendant!!! I flew for almost 19 years. Last year I had to resign because I have terminal cancer. Please have fun and don't let the downsides get to you.
Congratulations Nick! I am myself trying to follow your footsteps. Put in my first-ever flight attendant application last month (with United, of course), made it to the second round of interviews, but didn't get past that. Will try again soon until I make it in! Already know a few people who are your coworkers - they are lovely people and do love their job tremendously.
This is likely an unpopular opinion, but I actually like United the most among the US big 3. I’ve flown extensively with all 3, in all their cabins (albeit only on domestic flights, but I’ve flown the international business class hard product domestically on all 3), and I have elite status with all 3, and I’ve been the most consistently happy with United. I’m not sure if it’s just a pandemic or post-pandemic thing, but I’ve felt United has had the most attentive and friendly flight attendants and pilots and the most reasonable prices, without being significantly less comfortable than Delta. I’ve been underwhelmed with Delta actually - plenty of times where flight attendants will come through in the beginning of the flight and they’ll just disappear for the rest of the flight. Not to mention Delta is typically the most expensive of the big 3. And the proper Polaris seats are just as nice/comfy as the Delta One Suites on the A350 if you get a Polaris seat next to the window and not an aisle seat
Honestly when it comes to Delta having the best reputation, it's more about hype and having the most enthusiastic fans. But then when the Delta fans start coming to discussion boards of other airlines and trash the airline in question in favor of Delta, no thanks. I don't care how good the Delta hard and soft products are, nor how good their crew are, if that's how their customers/fans behave, that's a hard no. Another transportation company that I refuse to patronize for the same reason: Lyft. As for me, United is my favorite major airline, but I will also gladly fly American, and if going a bit smaller, Alaska is my favorite as well. Also while I never experienced the current Polaris hard product, I've experienced the Polaris soft product on the old Global First suites and loved it.
Despite the old PSU's and sidewalls staying, from what I saw in the video, they got rid of the old wallpaper that was on the side panels which before gave the aircraft a very vintage feel. I don't mind the old PSU and sidewalls staying because mixing old with new is kinda cool to me.
I'm hoping they don't do the same for the older 737s. For those, they should either keep the Continental wallpaper (similar to what AA did) or upgrade to Sky interior sidewalls (which is what KLM did). If they put in white classic sidewalls, it's doesn't look good.
In all honesty, this may seem weird, but I hated the fact they changed the No-smoking and fasten seat belt signs to Boeing…… it’s not aesthetically pleasing
Great video my friend, I still have yet to fly on this plane or the A320 that's been put back into service. Wish they gave us new galleys, but hey, I'm glad I'm not doing a live demo anymore! Keep up the good work :)
Phenomenal… great video amazing aircraft! Ive been waiting for someone to make a report on this plane! And my favorite trip reporter on RUclips did it! Just as a little side note, as you mentioned before there was a 737-800 getting retrofitted i flew on that plane (N73259) the day before it went into the shop. So sad to see those directv monitors go away! Once again great job Emil!
quite honestly, the entire cabin of the 738 looks absolutely terrible to me. I’d hope they completely revamp it or it’ll look really cheap and just straight up bad. The A319 looks a bit odd, but they cleaned it all up and updated everything enough that it isn’t bothersome. I’ve personally never seen an airline do a full retrofit of a 738 and not convert it to sky interior, so I’m crossing my fingers United doesn’t go cheap on us and just replace the seats.
@@LegitimateAviation Given a 737 without a sky interior, there are many ways this can go (if we ignore the seats). It can either get a full sky interior like KLM, it can get Space Bins while retaining original sidewalls like AA, it can get 3rd party bins like Qantas, it can get classic sidewalls but new texture like Alaska and analogous to UA's A319s. I'd like to see UA go the KLM or AA route, and not the Qantas or Alaska route. Of course, if a 737 already has sky interior, there are 2 possible changes: Space Bins or 3rd party bins like Qantas and Delta
@@LegitimateAviation I think delta has done retrofits with 737-800s without switching to sky interior. American did something similar with retrofits on pre-skyinterior 738s. They installed the larger bins but didn’t change the side panels.
Such an improvement. UA is advertising this heavily but still the reality is....most of their domestic product is not refurbished, unfortunately. One of the biggest errors of airline marketing is to present one product in PR, and then deliver the same old thing (or worse) to most customers.
Do you think it will be easy for UA to swap MAX IFEs so that they can have 2 headphone jacks and a Type-C port like their Airbuses? I know Delta pioneered "wireless tablet" technology for easy swapping but I wonder if United adopted that too
I worked/am still working on the implementation of the Airbus Customer Experience modification project. I was on location earlier this year supporting this exact aircraft, which would be referred to as a "Pilot" aircraft, but never got to see it take off! I was also able to be on site later to work through the A320 Pilot, and was able to play around with the new lighting system a bit. I am so glad that you liked it, and I am so happy to see all of it come together into a package that I am proud to be a part of. It is astonishing the scale of work that needs to be done to make this happen, and there is still a lot more to be done. If you have any questions I would be happy to oblige, provided I can find the answers and am at liberty to say!
I recently flew on a United brand new (two month old) Boeing 737 MAX-9 from Las Vegas to Newark and it was just MAGNIFICENT! The cabin was very modern with IFE screens and I love that they are compatible with bluetooth headsets! Wish other airlines would offer that on their IFE screens but maybe they will in the future! However my only complaint with United as you said the snack service is terrible. Very small servings and not a wide selection. Not good especially on a long flight like I was on. Hopefully United is going in the right direction by updating their cabins and maybe next they'll improve their catering service!
That’s weird because I sat in eco on the way to Hawaii on a 7 hour flight and got a breakfast service. Albeit, not warm. Maybe it’s a certain distance that they do domestic food service.
@@collin8175Only select Hawaiian routes get any form of meal service, otherwise, no other route receives meal service. This is standard on all airlines in the US. It also wasn’t until 2021 that United even rolled out cold meals on Hawaiian flights, they had buy on board and snacks on all flights prior to that. US service on domestic flights is just pathetic on flights longer than 3 hours.
Interesting, you find the Recaro seats of the A319 comfier than Meridians... being a jetBlue flyer for 10+ years, I flew their A220 recently and liked the Meridian seats in there better than the Pinnacle seats on the A321. However nothing beats the chunky Weber seats in jetBlue's A320 classic and E190, even though it has a 4-inch remote controlled IFE that had 3 looping movies and live TV only, those seats were like a sofa.
Idk what model but whatever seat AA used before oasis and can still be found on some of their 319s and 321Ts are sooo nice. A travesty what happened to them
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United has been one of my favorite airlines in the world, but it might just be my luck, but I have only flown their old liveries to far, so I haven't got the new livery cabin, I will always love UA though. So I can't wait to see what the new cabin will feel like for myself.
I’m really happy UA decided to retrofit their Airbus! This is the 2nd time UA has screens on their A319/A320’s. The other time was before 2014 when they used to have overhead screens. This time it has the Seatback IFE screens and for the first time since 2014, there has now been a safety video play before a UA Airbus flight as it’s awesome they no longer will have to do the manual demonstration since the IFE is back! I do look forward to more of these as well too, and one last interesting thing about this video, but it looks like they had a last minute gate change at IAH. Before landing the captain said it would be gate C45, but it looks like you came into gate C31 or something like that? Anyways great video of both this one and the one of the B737-800NG as I have yet to watch one of the B757-200 new interior which I will shortly, and hope you also do a trip report on the A320 new interior, and in the future on a B737-900 and B757-300 new interior once they send those aircraft types into retrofit over time!
As of now, the planes I have seen with the NEXT interior are the 767s, 757-200s, and A319s. The 767s look STUNNING! (they just need mood lighting), the 400s have moonlights for some reason but not the 300s LOL.
It’s bc the 300s were some of the first to be retrofitted (after the 777s) and at the time untied wasn’t necessarily all in on mood lighting. The 400s have been the last of the wide bodies to get a proper upgrade, so they will probably end up being a bit nicer. The other reason might just be bc United wants to retire the 767s in the next few years (once they get a replacement), so they might not care too much to spend that much money on them.
It seems like A319 first class also gets a revised screen. The screens in MAX first class have small plastic circles at the bottom to cover up an inactive camera, so that United does not face false accusations of spying on passengers. I guess Panasonic recently decided to make screens with no camera
That's on supply chain issue. Wifi retrofits will be a separate retrofit. On the 737NGs, they started changing out wifi antennas before starting NEXT for NGs. For the Airbuses, it is vice versa. If you want to see what going halfway (or less than that) looks like, look no further than Alaska Airlines just reupholstering old first class seats on their 737-800s and not upgrading to Space Bins, or look at Delta not putting in new Delta One seats on their A330CEOs despite retrofitting those A330s
The seats are the same Recaro model that American pulled out of their A319/21 and 737’s ironically… they’re also very similar to the Recaro slimline seats UA had previously. I wonder if there was a way to “retrofit” the old seats by removing the tray table and literature pocket and installing an IFE system and new tray table onto them..? Maybe they’re the same seats as before but modified and refurbished? Or maybe they’re American’s old seats that they just finished removing..?
I think it's the same seats, but with retrofitted seatbacks. Retrofitting seatbacks onto existing seats has been done on United's 787-8, Delta's 737-800, and back when Continental existed, they put DirecTV onto existing seats
Channel 9 is definitely the feature that peaks my interest the most. Was it working? Every UA that's had it recently either didn't have it working or the crew may opt to make it unavailable. (Maybe for security reasons) Channel 9 for all!
I made the mistake of not asking the pilots on this flight. But next Airbus flight with this cabin I definitely will, and report back. If am correct this used to be a feature on the airbus up until 2015ish when United refurbished the planes and got rid of AVOD. Sadly, on the 737 MAX Channel 9 is still not activated since they had bugs in which the system would tap into pilots conversations. So while it’s installed, it’s still shown as INOP for pilots
Glad they finally put screens. It is so annoying with having to use one's phone. Same for American. That's why I prefer Delta and JetBlue though they don't offer music. Forget catering. And their international catering was recently downgraded from a nice ice cream to a cookie.
Yo so glad to see United improving! They kinda sucked for a good 7 years… Can’t wait to try out that product, especially on the A319/20s longer flights. Great video btw!
@@upaviation787 I’ve flown United all my life and have seen the goods and bads. I’ve had very few bad experiences flying them, and my only complaint I really ever had was the lacking of proper hard product amenities on domestic flights. I’m not sure what people hate about United, as quite honestly, I’ve had worse experiences flying delta. Delta has an arguably equal to United product now (with UAs retrofits), but they’ve really lacked in ground service and overall customer care. I’m a nobody to United as I’ve never collected any points (which I kinda regret), but my family has decent status on delta and it’s still nothing special. So to wrap up what I’m saying, I really don’t think United is bad at all especially compared to many other airlines. While Delta might have a better overall product most of the time, United has proved to make due with what they have. Not every airline is perfect of course, so I don’t typically hold these things against the airlines bc it changes so often. These are just my opinions based off experience, I can’t speak for others and vice versa as we all have had different experiences.
United's $8 wifi certainly isn't as good as free, but I do appreciate that it's actually fleet-wide on all domestic flights. Unlike Delta where yes getting a free wifi equipped plane is nice, but plenty of planes still don't have free wifi yet, like an A220 I caught last week, and wifi costs more on those. Some Delta widebodies are charging $30 for 4 hours of wifi and it sounds like Delta has no plans to lower those prices as they don't seem interested in offering free wifi on domestic widebodies; while I wish the wifi was free I do at least appreciate the price consistency on United (and Alaska / Southwest for that matter who both also charge $8).
@@jhelinski Exactly. That was nip picking and these planes will be gone in 5 years max at the new the planes on order are delivered. Huge expense to replace all that.
Luck for now completely. They only have 2 existing aircraft with the retrofit. There is no way to tell. It will become a lot more likely as the new orders start arriving.
As a newer viewer of the channel, I wonder why you dislike BNA so much? It’s my home airport and I work there now with AA. I know the north terminal (A and B gates) are EXTREMELY outdated but in the next 5-6 years the north end should be completely updated.
Always a hit or miss for me out of Miami. Funny enough just a few days ago I flew EWR-SAN on a 6am flight (which I had no idea existed), and not only was I the only 1K onboard, the FA told me I was the only UA status holder on the half full MAX 8 haha
@@ITripReport I usually just pay for it on domestic routes now since go real tired of depending on an upgrade. The Y up fares are usually not that much more expensive anymore.
It is not practical to remove vents from planes that have them or add them to planes that don’t. In general, planes that are built with vents will continue to have vents and those without will continue to not have them. All narrowbodies from Boeing and Airbus are built with vents, it is just some widebodies that do not have vents
IAH my home airport! It drives me nuts when the cabin lighting isn't FULLY dimmed for landing on evening flights leaving that window reflection--ugh! I remember back in the early 90's when BNA was a mini-hub for AA--flew their MD-80s from IAH to connect to ORD and BOS at various times--have not flown UA in decades--last time I flew them was when they still had the 737-200's IAH-ORD --incredibly I've yet to fly a US carrier that features seatback IFE
@@Blank00IAH was a CO and Texas Int'l hub years ago--CO occupied the north wing of Terminal C, Texas Int'l the south wing--wouldn't know anything about the IFE situation
The next goal for UA is to bring the new cabin interior to there regional airlines and revamp the entire catering , mood lighting on a E145, E175 goes a long way
That's will not be a good idea because in a blink of an eye, regional jets can transfer to DL or AA. We are seeing this happen with Air Wisconsin CRJ200s and some E170s. Who knows what's next to follow suit, or which planes will be next to transfer into United after Mesa's CRJ900s. This is also why none of Delta's regional jets have IFE, despite Delta boasting to have the most IFEs in a US domestic fleet.
@@Blank00 another thing too is that the big carriers don’t care much about the regional jets as they don’t make much profit from them. They will go as far as to match the quality of seats and service, but most of the time they will go as basic as possible to save money for larger more flown on aircraft. As for the older e145s and CRJ200s, United probably won’t ever touch those bc they are old and small. Most of the new cabins on regional jets we see are entirely new deliveries, or like the CRJ550 that was torn down the main frame and rebuilt to have an entirely different purpose (less seats, crew, etc)
@@Blank00 the flight attendants speaking didn't seem happy and her voice sounded like an independence day alien wanting to say to humanity "no peace, die for $ when we get the tools to exterminate most of you in US for $ from airline executives to do so!!" Given her vengeful independence day alien monsterosh voice sounding like independence day is coming where US airlines exterminate most humans in US for $.
Even if United Airlines Boeing B737 and Airbus A320 aircraft is as competitive as Delta Airlines and includes high speed wifi. United Airlines will always charge for WiFi and service will be no where as good as Delta Airlines. Yeah plus United Airlines and American Airlines does not want to give the profit sharing Delta Airlines pays their employees. Till then American Airlines is the ultimate cheapskate airlines. I could see United Airlines products being competitive with JetBlue. And yes Southwest Airlines, JetBlue, Delta Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and United Airlines planes will be so much nicer than American Airlines and very competitive.
If United wants to become America's #1 carrier they need to treat the employees better. I'm talking better work rules, and overall, treat the employees like adults. When an employee is treated like an adult it will show in their work ethics. Although raises are nice (and certainly much needed) it truly doesn't take significant raises for your employees to respect you. It takes humane treatment to show appreciation. Sometimes good humane treatment means more than a raise. I don't care if I'm making $200k per year. If I'm being treated like garbage and I don't know if I'll have a job tomorrow, I'm gone.
They will never be #1, they are the absolute worst and if they want to be the best they’ll have to fire every staff member, get new cleaning services, and GET NEW REAL FOOD instead of some cold disgusting shit
If United wants to be the best carrier, I hope they learn respect and not be vicious in basic economy and add carry ons to basic economy if they can fit all carry ons.
Lol compared to delta which is considered the best, it’s pretty much the same experience in my opinion. I haven’t seen any US carrier ever make their seats thicker besides maybe first or business class.
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I started with United 10 days out of high school, on June 16, 1997, when United received this plane. I remember everyone, including myself, excited about the new A319s coming to UA at that time. They were and still are way more comfortable than any 737 series. I miss my days at United until 2003! If it wasn’t for 9/11 I would’ve still been there. Now great to see UA trying to be the best like they were in the 1990s and early 2000s.
1990s United! The memories.
United is way more modern now
Muy elegante para ser clase económica y para ser United, como ha evolucionado United
Great video! As someone who is a new FA for United, it’s a very exciting time given the trajectory United is heading towards and the retrofits is a huge step forward
Congratulations!!! I miss being a flight attendant!!! I flew for almost 19 years. Last year I had to resign because I have terminal cancer. Please have fun and don't let the downsides get to you.
Congratulations Nick! I am myself trying to follow your footsteps. Put in my first-ever flight attendant application last month (with United, of course), made it to the second round of interviews, but didn't get past that. Will try again soon until I make it in! Already know a few people who are your coworkers - they are lovely people and do love their job tremendously.
@cbiasizzo I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope that you manage to make a good recovery and that you get well soon.
This is likely an unpopular opinion, but I actually like United the most among the US big 3. I’ve flown extensively with all 3, in all their cabins (albeit only on domestic flights, but I’ve flown the international business class hard product domestically on all 3), and I have elite status with all 3, and I’ve been the most consistently happy with United. I’m not sure if it’s just a pandemic or post-pandemic thing, but I’ve felt United has had the most attentive and friendly flight attendants and pilots and the most reasonable prices, without being significantly less comfortable than Delta. I’ve been underwhelmed with Delta actually - plenty of times where flight attendants will come through in the beginning of the flight and they’ll just disappear for the rest of the flight. Not to mention Delta is typically the most expensive of the big 3. And the proper Polaris seats are just as nice/comfy as the Delta One Suites on the A350 if you get a Polaris seat next to the window and not an aisle seat
Honestly when it comes to Delta having the best reputation, it's more about hype and having the most enthusiastic fans. But then when the Delta fans start coming to discussion boards of other airlines and trash the airline in question in favor of Delta, no thanks. I don't care how good the Delta hard and soft products are, nor how good their crew are, if that's how their customers/fans behave, that's a hard no.
Another transportation company that I refuse to patronize for the same reason: Lyft.
As for me, United is my favorite major airline, but I will also gladly fly American, and if going a bit smaller, Alaska is my favorite as well. Also while I never experienced the current Polaris hard product, I've experienced the Polaris soft product on the old Global First suites and loved it.
I agree I have top tier status with united “global service” and have over 10 million lifetime miles and think they are amazing
Great to see UA’s classic Airbus family getting love. I always wanted to see IFE screens on them. To me it’s like a dream come true.
Despite the old PSU's and sidewalls staying, from what I saw in the video, they got rid of the old wallpaper that was on the side panels which before gave the aircraft a very vintage feel. I don't mind the old PSU and sidewalls staying because mixing old with new is kinda cool to me.
I'm hoping they don't do the same for the older 737s. For those, they should either keep the Continental wallpaper (similar to what AA did) or upgrade to Sky interior sidewalls (which is what KLM did). If they put in white classic sidewalls, it's doesn't look good.
In all honesty, this may seem weird, but I hated the fact they changed the No-smoking and fasten seat belt signs to Boeing…… it’s not aesthetically pleasing
DAMNNNNN THAT LOOKS INSANE, Its about time they changed the A319 & A320!
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How nice! upgrades worth knowing! Congrats United!
Pretty cool video! I look forward to getting some more up to date US Airline experiences in the future!
WOW. This looks incredible. UA is really winning
Trying to anyway. Nice to see a commitment to improving the product but It will be a long process.
I’ve been waiting on THIS report!!!
After I heard about the A319 retrofits I was waiting for a video on one of them!
Mee too
I love how United is getting more seatback screens!
Great interior wow
Excellent trip report Emil!😸
Great video my friend, I still have yet to fly on this plane or the A320 that's been put back into service. Wish they gave us new galleys, but hey, I'm glad I'm not doing a live demo anymore! Keep up the good work :)
Phenomenal… great video amazing aircraft! Ive been waiting for someone to make a report on this plane! And my favorite trip reporter on RUclips did it! Just as a little side note, as you mentioned before there was a 737-800 getting retrofitted i flew on that plane (N73259) the day before it went into the shop. So sad to see those directv monitors go away! Once again great job Emil!
Hopefully they keep the Continental sidewalls, or upgrade to BSI sidewalls if they don't
quite honestly, the entire cabin of the 738 looks absolutely terrible to me. I’d hope they completely revamp it or it’ll look really cheap and just straight up bad. The A319 looks a bit odd, but they cleaned it all up and updated everything enough that it isn’t bothersome. I’ve personally never seen an airline do a full retrofit of a 738 and not convert it to sky interior, so I’m crossing my fingers United doesn’t go cheap on us and just replace the seats.
@@LegitimateAviation Given a 737 without a sky interior, there are many ways this can go (if we ignore the seats). It can either get a full sky interior like KLM, it can get Space Bins while retaining original sidewalls like AA, it can get 3rd party bins like Qantas, it can get classic sidewalls but new texture like Alaska and analogous to UA's A319s. I'd like to see UA go the KLM or AA route, and not the Qantas or Alaska route. Of course, if a 737 already has sky interior, there are 2 possible changes: Space Bins or 3rd party bins like Qantas and Delta
@@Blank00 that’s true, however, I’d assume they are gonna match their most recent 739 interiors of which are the full sky interior.
@@LegitimateAviation I think delta has done retrofits with 737-800s without switching to sky interior. American did something similar with retrofits on pre-skyinterior 738s. They installed the larger bins but didn’t change the side panels.
YES! Finally some retrofits!!!
You dog ! snagged a free prosecco! way to go! I'm an AA and DL guy so it's nice to see how the other half lives.
Such an improvement. UA is advertising this heavily but still the reality is....most of their domestic product is not refurbished, unfortunately. One of the biggest errors of airline marketing is to present one product in PR, and then deliver the same old thing (or worse) to most customers.
9:19 We could hear the PTU sounding while gears retracting, if everyone did not notice.
Thanks.
Great video. Soon I will fly from DEN to CLT on UA A319 soon.
You should do a updated Aeromexico premeir flight, apparently they are now serving a hot meal again on the MEX-TIJ route.
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll try to sneak in a review next time I go down to leon
Do you think it will be easy for UA to swap MAX IFEs so that they can have 2 headphone jacks and a Type-C port like their Airbuses? I know Delta pioneered "wireless tablet" technology for easy swapping but I wonder if United adopted that too
I worked/am still working on the implementation of the Airbus Customer Experience modification project. I was on location earlier this year supporting this exact aircraft, which would be referred to as a "Pilot" aircraft, but never got to see it take off! I was also able to be on site later to work through the A320 Pilot, and was able to play around with the new lighting system a bit. I am so glad that you liked it, and I am so happy to see all of it come together into a package that I am proud to be a part of. It is astonishing the scale of work that needs to be done to make this happen, and there is still a lot more to be done.
If you have any questions I would be happy to oblige, provided I can find the answers and am at liberty to say!
The first class seats look similar to the ones on Delta's brand new a321neo
I'm very excited about the new interior on United Airlines. Hopefully, all their planes get IFE screens very soon.
I recently flew on a United brand new (two month old) Boeing 737 MAX-9 from Las Vegas to Newark and it was just MAGNIFICENT! The cabin was very modern with IFE screens and I love that they are compatible with bluetooth headsets! Wish other airlines would offer that on their IFE screens but maybe they will in the future! However my only complaint with United as you said the snack service is terrible. Very small servings and not a wide selection. Not good especially on a long flight like I was on. Hopefully United is going in the right direction by updating their cabins and maybe next they'll improve their catering service!
That’s weird because I sat in eco on the way to Hawaii on a 7 hour flight and got a breakfast service. Albeit, not warm. Maybe it’s a certain distance that they do domestic food service.
@@collin8175 yeah maybe on long flights like that they serve meals?
@@kevingreen5793 Probably... I think it's also based on time too. How long was it from Las Vegas to Newark?
@@collin8175 about 5 hours
@@collin8175Only select Hawaiian routes get any form of meal service, otherwise, no other route receives meal service. This is standard on all airlines in the US. It also wasn’t until 2021 that United even rolled out cold meals on Hawaiian flights, they had buy on board and snacks on all flights prior to that. US service on domestic flights is just pathetic on flights longer than 3 hours.
Interesting, you find the Recaro seats of the A319 comfier than Meridians... being a jetBlue flyer for 10+ years, I flew their A220 recently and liked the Meridian seats in there better than the Pinnacle seats on the A321. However nothing beats the chunky Weber seats in jetBlue's A320 classic and E190, even though it has a 4-inch remote controlled IFE that had 3 looping movies and live TV only, those seats were like a sofa.
Really miss those seats haven't seen them in years but miss the nostalgia of the old A320s
Idk what model but whatever seat AA used before oasis and can still be found on some of their 319s and 321Ts are sooo nice. A travesty what happened to them
Is United still phasing out seat back IFE? It seems they’ve brought it back on this aircraft. What are they doing, exactly??
They are bringing it back! This is the first airbus to get it back! Sorry for any confusion
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I am excited to see how they retrofit their 737NGs, especially since their first NG retrofit is on a 737 that lacks Sky Interior
None of UA's NG's have the sky interior. These are the old 737's inherited from the merger with CO.
I flew on that NG the day before it went into the shop! (N73259)
@@johniii8147 yes they do
@@johniii8147 some of them
@@johniii8147a lot of their -900s do
United has been one of my favorite airlines in the world, but it might just be my luck, but I have only flown their old liveries to far, so I haven't got the new livery cabin, I will always love UA though. So I can't wait to see what the new cabin will feel like for myself.
That united flight attendant endlessly playing with his hair had me dying haha
I’ll be flying UA next week in First on their Max 9 to Cancun so I’m very excited to try that product.❤️✈️
If it's a MAX 9 from the first delivery batch it won't have their most updated version.
This may be a united video but for a moment, I thought that american cabin at the start was like an old spirit or allegiant or other ULCC Cabin
Parks & Rec rocks!
finally looking nice like Jetblue
I’m really happy UA decided to retrofit their Airbus! This is the 2nd time UA has screens on their A319/A320’s. The other time was before 2014 when they used to have overhead screens. This time it has the Seatback IFE screens and for the first time since 2014, there has now been a safety video play before a UA Airbus flight as it’s awesome they no longer will have to do the manual demonstration since the IFE is back! I do look forward to more of these as well too, and one last interesting thing about this video, but it looks like they had a last minute gate change at IAH. Before landing the captain said it would be gate C45, but it looks like you came into gate C31 or something like that? Anyways great video of both this one and the one of the B737-800NG as I have yet to watch one of the B757-200 new interior which I will shortly, and hope you also do a trip report on the A320 new interior, and in the future on a B737-900 and B757-300 new interior once they send those aircraft types into retrofit over time!
As of now, the planes I have seen with the NEXT interior are the 767s, 757-200s, and A319s. The 767s look STUNNING! (they just need mood lighting), the 400s have moonlights for some reason but not the 300s LOL.
It’s bc the 300s were some of the first to be retrofitted (after the 777s) and at the time untied wasn’t necessarily all in on mood lighting. The 400s have been the last of the wide bodies to get a proper upgrade, so they will probably end up being a bit nicer. The other reason might just be bc United wants to retire the 767s in the next few years (once they get a replacement), so they might not care too much to spend that much money on them.
@@LegitimateAviation isn't there some rumor avout how four retrofitted planes out of the sixteen -400s don't have moodlighting
@@Blank00 I’m not all that good at keeping up with rumors. There very well could be, but one could argue those planes went first.
From where you get so much information about this airplane? History and more.
Almost a BabyBus!
It seems like A319 first class also gets a revised screen. The screens in MAX first class have small plastic circles at the bottom to cover up an inactive camera, so that United does not face false accusations of spying on passengers. I guess Panasonic recently decided to make screens with no camera
Great video! As 1k, did you claim your snack box as well?
I heard that these A319s are supposed to have Braille placards. Where are those in the A319?
How do I know if my flight will have the new interior and TV screens in advance?
Didn’t know BA flies to Nashville.
I can not believe United did not up grade its wifi. Always going half way!!!!!
That's on supply chain issue. Wifi retrofits will be a separate retrofit. On the 737NGs, they started changing out wifi antennas before starting NEXT for NGs. For the Airbuses, it is vice versa. If you want to see what going halfway (or less than that) looks like, look no further than Alaska Airlines just reupholstering old first class seats on their 737-800s and not upgrading to Space Bins, or look at Delta not putting in new Delta One seats on their A330CEOs despite retrofitting those A330s
I love this interior however I totally agree with you on the side walls, it just doesn’t look right. Nice Trip Report!
You can look up Cathay Dragon A320 interior. I think United used the same retrofit (aside from seats) design as Cathay Dragon.
did channel 9 ❤(ATC) work for you? Recently flew a MAX 9 DEN-LAS-DEN and it was just silence both flights. The max 9 interior was cool though.
The seats are the same Recaro model that American pulled out of their A319/21 and 737’s ironically… they’re also very similar to the Recaro slimline seats UA had previously. I wonder if there was a way to “retrofit” the old seats by removing the tray table and literature pocket and installing an IFE system and new tray table onto them..? Maybe they’re the same seats as before but modified and refurbished? Or maybe they’re American’s old seats that they just finished removing..?
I think it's the same seats, but with retrofitted seatbacks. Retrofitting seatbacks onto existing seats has been done on United's 787-8, Delta's 737-800, and back when Continental existed, they put DirecTV onto existing seats
@@Blank00 very true!
I think they are the same seat model American used on their short haul planes pre-oasis.
AA has not pulled them from their a319s yet
Channel 9 is definitely the feature that peaks my interest the most. Was it working? Every UA that's had it recently either didn't have it working or the crew may opt to make it unavailable. (Maybe for security reasons)
Channel 9 for all!
I made the mistake of not asking the pilots on this flight. But next Airbus flight with this cabin I definitely will, and report back. If am correct this used to be a feature on the airbus up until 2015ish when United refurbished the planes and got rid of AVOD.
Sadly, on the 737 MAX Channel 9 is still not activated since they had bugs in which the system would tap into pilots conversations. So while it’s installed, it’s still shown as INOP for pilots
Where are they retrofitting the 737-800NG's and whats the tail number! This is so exciting to hear and as always great video!
N73259, it’s been in Miami since 4/30!
Although I’m sure we will we more retrofit locations later on
@@ITripReport I flew on that on its last flight before refit
@@ITripReport and to make things very interesting, that plane went into Miami without the Sky interior.
@@ITripReport Question: How do you know which -800s have received retrofits? Is there a way to track them?
Nobody is getting on the plane thinking that the sidewalls or PSUs look dated. Lol
Was the other carrier Alaska or Southwest?
Glad they finally put screens. It is so annoying with having to use one's phone. Same for American. That's why I prefer Delta and JetBlue though they don't offer music. Forget catering. And their international catering was recently downgraded from a nice ice cream to a cookie.
The fact u noticed the seatbelt sign 😂😂😂😂😂
If the first clip is AAL, it looks like a very disappointing experience. The UA a319 looks really nice and clean.
Fun fact, the AA plane I flew coming in used to have the same exact seats the UA A319 i flew in has!
@@ITripReport I remember those, they were better then decent, too bad they are gone. I enjoy your videos, keep it up.
For an A319 it’s too nice 😂
Yo so glad to see United improving! They kinda sucked for a good 7 years…
Can’t wait to try out that product, especially on the A319/20s longer flights.
Great video btw!
You like United bro?
@@upaviation787 I’ve flown United all my life and have seen the goods and bads. I’ve had very few bad experiences flying them, and my only complaint I really ever had was the lacking of proper hard product amenities on domestic flights. I’m not sure what people hate about United, as quite honestly, I’ve had worse experiences flying delta. Delta has an arguably equal to United product now (with UAs retrofits), but they’ve really lacked in ground service and overall customer care. I’m a nobody to United as I’ve never collected any points (which I kinda regret), but my family has decent status on delta and it’s still nothing special. So to wrap up what I’m saying, I really don’t think United is bad at all especially compared to many other airlines. While Delta might have a better overall product most of the time, United has proved to make due with what they have. Not every airline is perfect of course, so I don’t typically hold these things against the airlines bc it changes so often. These are just my opinions based off experience, I can’t speak for others and vice versa as we all have had different experiences.
White text over light background’s yea thats readable
Um where do you go next?
Make a United 737-700 economy trip report
I’m honestly shocked I haven’t, I’ve been ending up in a lot of those recently so next time I will!
@@ITripReport you have the best videos ever
United's $8 wifi certainly isn't as good as free, but I do appreciate that it's actually fleet-wide on all domestic flights. Unlike Delta where yes getting a free wifi equipped plane is nice, but plenty of planes still don't have free wifi yet, like an A220 I caught last week, and wifi costs more on those. Some Delta widebodies are charging $30 for 4 hours of wifi and it sounds like Delta has no plans to lower those prices as they don't seem interested in offering free wifi on domestic widebodies; while I wish the wifi was free I do at least appreciate the price consistency on United (and Alaska / Southwest for that matter who both also charge $8).
DL is quickly changing that. Just take some time to roll out since a new system has to be installed.
Do u know why they didn’t replace the PSU’s or sidewalls?
Not worth the extra $ for a 25 year old plane. And no one will know the difference. It looks fine.
@@jhelinski Exactly. That was nip picking and these planes will be gone in 5 years max at the new the planes on order are delivered. Huge expense to replace all that.
How did you know your flight would be operated by the new cabin? Or was it pure luck?
Luck for now completely. They only have 2 existing aircraft with the retrofit. There is no way to tell. It will become a lot more likely as the new orders start arriving.
So how can you afford such travels?
As a newer viewer of the channel, I wonder why you dislike BNA so much? It’s my home airport and I work there now with AA. I know the north terminal (A and B gates) are EXTREMELY outdated but in the next 5-6 years the north end should be completely updated.
Running gag I had on a video a few years ago, were I kept hinting at a BNA diversion throughout the video, which ended up happening.
Who is getting all these upgrades?!? I’m 1K too and I’m always far down 😑
Probably traveling out of busy UA hub where there of TONS of 1Ks.
Always a hit or miss for me out of Miami. Funny enough just a few days ago I flew EWR-SAN on a 6am flight (which I had no idea existed), and not only was I the only 1K onboard, the FA told me I was the only UA status holder on the half full MAX 8 haha
@@ITripReport I usually just pay for it on domestic routes now since go real tired of depending on an upgrade. The Y up fares are usually not that much more expensive anymore.
Will they be flying that plane for much longer? Why bother remodeling such an old plane if it will soon be retired?
Finally United is catching up with Delta. I wish I could say the same about American.
They would have taken away the air vents. So be happy they didnt update those XD
It is not practical to remove vents from planes that have them or add them to planes that don’t. In general, planes that are built with vents will continue to have vents and those without will continue to not have them. All narrowbodies from Boeing and Airbus are built with vents, it is just some widebodies that do not have vents
It's interesting how Virgin had all this stuff YEAARS before all the other airlines
(I think)
ikr
the virgin america reference :(
United is officially better than American wow
That's not hard to do with the route AA went. AA's narrow bodies might as well be Spirit or Frontier with how they went.
IAH my home airport! It drives me nuts when the cabin lighting isn't FULLY dimmed for landing on evening flights leaving that window reflection--ugh! I remember back in the early 90's when BNA was a mini-hub for AA--flew their MD-80s from IAH to connect to ORD and BOS at various times--have not flown UA in decades--last time I flew them was when they still had the 737-200's IAH-ORD --incredibly I've yet to fly a US carrier that features seatback IFE
Wasn't IAH a Continental hub? Continental put IFEs into their narrowbodies for the final few years before their merger.
@@Blank00IAH was a CO and Texas Int'l hub years ago--CO occupied the north wing of Terminal C, Texas Int'l the south wing--wouldn't know anything about the IFE situation
Can the screens rotate like on the MAX?
The next goal for UA is to bring the new cabin interior to there regional airlines and revamp the entire catering , mood lighting on a E145, E175 goes a long way
That's will not be a good idea because in a blink of an eye, regional jets can transfer to DL or AA. We are seeing this happen with Air Wisconsin CRJ200s and some E170s. Who knows what's next to follow suit, or which planes will be next to transfer into United after Mesa's CRJ900s. This is also why none of Delta's regional jets have IFE, despite Delta boasting to have the most IFEs in a US domestic fleet.
@@Blank00 actually the E175s that are operated by Skywest and Mesa are owned by United. The only airline that owns the 175s is Republic.
@@cbiasizzo but what about other types (all CRJs, ERJ145s)?
@@Blank00 another thing too is that the big carriers don’t care much about the regional jets as they don’t make much profit from them. They will go as far as to match the quality of seats and service, but most of the time they will go as basic as possible to save money for larger more flown on aircraft. As for the older e145s and CRJ200s, United probably won’t ever touch those bc they are old and small. Most of the new cabins on regional jets we see are entirely new deliveries, or like the CRJ550 that was torn down the main frame and rebuilt to have an entirely different purpose (less seats, crew, etc)
I don’t think they’ll ever be on regional aircraft. Never seen IFE on regional US carriers
“Turn bag on side” means “don’t maximize storage space”
It means exactly the opposite if equipped with new bins.
the service didn't seem very friendly at ALL itrip report!!!!!!
How so?
@@Blank00 the flight attendants speaking didn't seem happy and her voice sounded like an independence day alien wanting to say to humanity "no peace, die for $ when we get the tools to exterminate most of you in US for $ from airline executives to do so!!" Given her vengeful independence day alien monsterosh voice sounding like independence day is coming where US airlines exterminate most humans in US for $.
@@zakperea9715 but the male FA seemed to be in a positive mood
@@Blank00 the female flight attendant was fine. You were referring to the pilot.
@@zakperea9715 itripreport had a direct interaction with a male because he was rolling one of the carts 14:09
These look WAY better than their 737 max cabins, either way they’ll stay the worst airline
United is not the Worst airline
Even if United Airlines Boeing B737 and Airbus A320 aircraft is as competitive as Delta Airlines and includes high speed wifi. United Airlines will always charge for WiFi and service will be no where as good as Delta Airlines. Yeah plus United Airlines and American Airlines does not want to give the profit sharing Delta Airlines pays their employees. Till then American Airlines is the ultimate cheapskate airlines. I could see United Airlines products being competitive with JetBlue. And yes Southwest Airlines, JetBlue, Delta Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and United Airlines planes will be so much nicer than American Airlines and very competitive.
😂First😂.
If United wants to become America's #1 carrier they need to treat the employees better. I'm talking better work rules, and overall, treat the employees like adults. When an employee is treated like an adult it will show in their work ethics. Although raises are nice (and certainly much needed) it truly doesn't take significant raises for your employees to respect you. It takes humane treatment to show appreciation. Sometimes good humane treatment means more than a raise. I don't care if I'm making $200k per year. If I'm being treated like garbage and I don't know if I'll have a job tomorrow, I'm gone.
They will never be #1, they are the absolute worst and if they want to be the best they’ll have to fire every staff member, get new cleaning services, and GET NEW REAL FOOD instead of some cold disgusting shit
If United wants to be the best carrier, I hope they learn respect and not be vicious in basic economy and add carry ons to basic economy if they can fit all carry ons.
So same wooden cardboard seats with a screen on it. Yawn!
They repadded the seats
Lol compared to delta which is considered the best, it’s pretty much the same experience in my opinion. I haven’t seen any US carrier ever make their seats thicker besides maybe first or business class.