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Any ideas what we should do about the new logo? I'm not familiar with fair use, etc. so I don't want to be the one to upload the new logo, but it might be worth mentioning in the body of the article. Also, United has the proposed livery for a new Dreamliner ---> Safesler 13:19, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
This article has been nominated to appear on the Main Page In the news section at WP:ITN/C. There is consensus for posting, but I'm reluctant to put it up until:
According to the new company website, www.unitedcontinentalmerger.com, Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport will be the combined company's largest hub not Chicago's O'hare.
"The new company’s corporate and operational headquarters will be in Chicago and it will maintain a significant presence in Houston, which will be the combined company’s largest hub. Additionally, the CEO will maintain offices in both Chicago and Houston."
http://www.unitedcontinentalmerger.com/press-release —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.23.102.228 (talk) 03:32, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Could US Airways "Ugly Girl" be in another play (merger) with the "new" United? US Air might be thinking so, although it might encounter strong antitrust opposition from the DOJ because the "other three" (United Delta, American) would draw attention of the antitrust committee because of there size before the merger. You"ll be the judge.
This is the article that they see themselves in a merger http://www.thestreet.com/story/10896028/1/us-airways-eyes-merger-global-growth.html Arivera0426
Recently, while reading the July traffic releases of US majors, I realized that United flew fewer revenue passenger miles than Delta. It also flew fewer Available Seat Miles. I am not sure about enplaned passengers. Both articles were from the Associated Press
Quotes: "The airline, [Delta], which is restructuring under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, said traffic fell 0.6 percent to 11.76 billion revenue passenger miles, an industry unit measuring one paying passenger flown one mile. Capacity fell to 13.77 billion available seat miles."
"Traffic grew to 11.07 billion revenue passenger miles in July from 10.7 billion in the same month a year ago" --United
Futhermore, year to date for United is 83,224,423 ASM, for Delta it is 86,092,478. (PR Newswire)
Again, if you look at the figures for passengers enplaned, Delta sits at 62,794,884 and United at 40,957,000. (PR Newswire
The articles can be found:
AP, United AP, Delta PR Newswire, United PR Newswire, Delta
Perhaps the Wiki article on United should reflect these changes. United is now number 3 in ASM and RPM and passengers enplaned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by UAAC (talk • contribs)
To all you IP users who hate the new livery and don't want to see it on this page: I don't like the new livery any more than you do, but have I ever removed the pics? No! As much as I hate the new livery and as much as I don't want to see it here, have you seen me remove any new livery pictures? I repeat, no. (If you don't believe me, feel free to look at the article history) They belong here, as much as you (or me) wish they weren't. In Wikipedia, you are supposed to write articles with a neutral, unbiased point of view, which means you shouldn't just get rid of a certain photo just because you don't like the livery shown on it. So please stop removing the livery. It belongs here, and it's not Wikipedia's fault that United has adopted this crappy new livery. (See, I hate it too! Don't get me wrong.) —Compdude123 (talk) 22:47, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
The History section of this article has about as many sections as the History of Delta Air Lines article, and is longer than the History of Iberia Airlines and History of Qantas articles. With UA continuing to grow the history section will just get longer. It is time that the UA history section gets its own article, and actually this was discussed before (Talk:United_Airlines/Archive_1#Split_suggestion). From that discussion, now UA and CO are under a single operating certificate, and have combined operations. Already since last month the article History of United Airlines exists. It will also make room for pictures of both old and UA liveries to be shown since there is greater space on the two pages. Plus it will be easier to organize and expand the UA history section on its own page, while keeping a summary and the latest developments on the main page, just like the DL article. Enginesmax (talk) 02:35, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Great! Looks just wonderful! I liked that you split off the brand section as well as that was getting fairly long. —Compdude123 (talk) 05:53, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Prompted by Compdude123 (talk · contribs)'s three reversions:
I am bringing this edit war here. Let me summarize the history from my perspective.
When I encountered this 26 January 2012 version of United Airlines, I noticed United Airlines#History contained six images, five of which displayed UA's aircraft livery. Having become aware via this commons project of the existence of the 2nd image at right, an image that depicts UA's "Stars and Bars" livery of two planes at Portland International Airport, I made this change, supplying 'replace "stars and bars" image with one that depicts the stars' as my edit summary. In response, Compdude123 (talk · contribs) reverted my change, asserting "Undid revision 473398759 by 72.244.206.189 previous image better, as United was a launch customer for the DC-10, and it only makes sense to have a DC-10 pic here"; I reverted ('rv the rv since image better depicts "stars and bars" mentioned in the caption; take rv to the talk page, keeping WP:OWN in mind'), prompting Compdude123 to revert me ("Undid revision 473461953 by 72.244.206.178 DC-10 pic makes more sense, You are welcome to complain about this on my talk page") and then make this change ("remove "stars and bars" info from caption; not necessary") I revert ("rv the rv; you just did a second rv of my good faith edit ; take this to this article's talk page so that others can contribute to our dispute") Compdude123, skirting the letter of WP:3RR, waited a bit then reverted me again ("Undid revision 473467520 by 72.244.206.178 Don't revert my revert; respond on my talk page. Thanks!")
I am of the opinion that my initial change was an article improvement made in good faith, and does not warrant reversion. Compdude123's assertion that it "only makes sense to have a DC-10 pic here" ignores the theme of the photographs in the history section, which is to depict the changes to UA's livery. Compdude123 is welcome of course to expand the history section and cover UA's role in the launch of the DC-10, but that should be done in a way that is consistent with WP:SS and WP:SPLIT and the current contents of United Airlines#History and History of United Airlines. Thanks. 72.244.204.211 (talk) 07:15, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Alright, to end this dispute, I will move the DC-10 image to the fleet history section as it is mentioned there that UA was a launch customer for the DC-10, and so the the picture will fit better there anyway. And I will re-add your stars and bars picture to the history section. Now you may ask me why I didn't just do this in the first place and my answer will be why didn't I think of that in the first place. And I apologize for my behavior of "owning" this article and I will try and stop myself from acting that way towards you or others in the future. Do not let this hinder you from continuing to contribute to WP, though most users would recommend creating an account (but that's ultimately up to you, of course). —Compdude123 (talk | contribs) 05:19, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
United announce that they will be upgrading and rebranding its premium cabins on international flights according to this source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/united-rebrands-premium-cabins-upgrades-160500453.html. I updated to the cabin section of the article but I am confused which cabin will be renamed to what. Can someone put the information in the right place in the article when someone gets a chance? Thanks! Snoozlepet (talk) 19:49, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
WhisperToMe (talk) 05:02, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
File Uniteddestinations.png is erroneous.
United Airlines' West Africa destinations are Accra (Ghana) and Lagos (Nigeria) as is stated correctly in the article.
The map instead indicates Ivory Coast and Nigeria.
Tomrohwer (talk) 22:43, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I won't fail the nomination for now, but this section is in bad need of more references. More review to come.--Jetstreamer Talk 03:04, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Please can we have a look at this Talk:United Continental Holdings Thanks - --JetBlast (talk) 14:57, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I have tweaked and referenced all the seating configs. The problem is the 777-200 & 200ER are not separated on the United website. I am struggling to find what seats are in the 200 and the 200ER. Do we merge the 2 types on here in order to source the seating config? Thanks --JetBlast (talk) 11:30, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
User:Dilwala314 has a point. The on time arrival rate of an airline, updated perhaps once a year, is at least as encyclopedic as its current financials. --NeilN talk to me 19:36, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
Please note that IP 68.119.73.36 has been warned for edit warring on this article. AfricaTanz (talk) 01:48, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
JetBlast do you want to ask for a WP:3O? --NeilN talk to me 15:08, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Third opinion - hello all. Sourced information about the on-time arrival rate of an airline seems perfectly relevant; while it's not clear that it belongs in the lede, I certainly see not reason why it shouldn't be included in the article. Mandalini (talk) 16:44, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
There has been some confusion on hub rankings for Chicago-O'Hare and Houston. A couple of users recently changed the introduction on this article, the O'Hare, and the Houston Bush Airport pages saying that O'Hare is the largest hub for United and Houston is the second-largest hub. Just a note, Houston is indeed the largest UA hub (based on passengers the airline carried but the second-largest based on the number of flights) and O'Hare is the second-largest hub. News articles and various press releases specifically state the airline's biggest hub will be in Houston. 68.119.73.36 (talk) 07:12, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
From the corporate standpoint, I am sure that United likes to brag about its founding as Varney in 1927. However, Wikipedia should be more neutral and honest.
Like it or not, the current United Airlines is United in name only. It's actually Continental Airlines that took on the United name probably because United's name is more established. The same thing happened with Continental when it was swallowed up by Texas International.
To follow the corporate lineage, it would be more honest for Wikipedia to:
1. list the founding of the United Airlines name, which is 1931.
2. More honest, is to list the predecessor airline, which is Texas International.
I will attempt to make a change. If you disagree, you should explain your reasoning. If you just change it without explanation, this should be considered as a bad faith, badly documented change that should be changed back. This is because this is an important issue.
Once again, merely changing my change without explanation is a bad faith change. Let's discuss!
EatingGlassIsBad (talk) 16:44, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
This article has real problems bordering on advertising. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an advertising board or a corporate version of LinkedIn.
I removed the mailing address for the company. Why have it?
There is a long section about BusinessFirst and other things related to cabin classes. This seems like advertising. It is not encyclopedic. What would be encyclopedic is mention of an airline developing business class (it wasn't United). EatingGlassIsBad (talk) 17:03, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
Chronicle story about the airline cutting its Houston-Paris route:
WhisperToMe (talk) 05:47, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Dear Wiki-nerds,
I think some bozo is doing some very bad editing of the United Club article and I wanted to call you attention to this problem. --50.141.33.7 (talk) 06:03, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
I question if NRT qualifies as a hub anymore- there are only 2 westbound (non-US) destinations now for United at NRT: Seoul and Singapore. Every other flight is obviously going to an existing one in the United States.
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