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United Airlines will be revealing a new livery on April 24th. According to a statement put out by United, it is not the same “leaked” livery from a few weeks ago. This leaves us with a bit of a guessing game as to what United’s new livery will look like. United Airlines inherited their current globe livery after their merger with Continental Airlines. The “new” post-merger livery (at the time) was barely discernible from the one used by Continental. This undoubtedly saved costs with repainting aircraft, in addition to being…

United Airlines came from somewhat humble beginnings in the early days of the US aviation industry. William Boeing founded Boeing Airplane Company in 1916 as an aircraft manufacturer. With successful releases of Boeing Aircraft models, the company transitioned into operating as an air carrier for mail. The first successful mail delivery was in 1919. By 1928 a subsidiary, United Aircraft Corp, was established to operate as a full-service airline. Under the United Aircraft Corp., the airline began to expand its business operations through a series of mergers and acquisitions across…

United is now the first U.S. airline to give customers non-binary gender options while booking their flights, the carrier announced Friday.  “United is excited to share with our customers, whether they identify along the binary of male or female or not, that we are taking the steps to exhibit our care for them while also providing additional employee training to make us even more welcoming for all customers and employees,” United’s Chief Customer Officer Toby Enqvist said in a statement. The airline has worked with LGBTQ organizations The Human Rights Campaign and The Trevor…

United Airlines (UAL +0.1%) announces it broke ground on a technical operations center at Los Angeles International Airport. The company says the new facility will include two connected buildings – a ground service equipment and facilities maintenance building and a line maintenance hangar, including an engine support shop that will focus on the aircraft’s Dreamliner fleet. The new investment pushes the United’s commitments at its Los Angeles hub to nearly $1B in recent years. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3438667-united-airlines-invests-lax-operations

In January, United Airlines rolled out a redesigned version of its smartphone app designed to cater to not only frequent fliers but those who fly with United once a year, Linda Jojo, the airline’s chief digital officer, told Business Insider in a recent interview. Such consideration is crucial, considering roughly 85% of the airline’s customers fly with United once or not at all in a year, United Airlines President Scott Kirby has said. According to Jojo, the new app is keenly focused on transparency and helping alleviate travelers’ stress and…

You can now cook your favourite airline meals at home with this new recipe book. While United Airlines often find themselves at the tail end of plane-related jokes, this is no laughing matter. More than just peanuts and pretzels, the book contains 40 recipes from the airline’s executive chefs that are served in Polaris business class. As an example, it includes a recipe for a fancy-sounding “coconut soup with sambal oelek chicken”. On the more dubious side, it also includes a selection of recipes used for its international economy passengers. I’m not sure I’ll be…

As the world remembers the life of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, I was made aware of a story that took place in 2010 aboard a United Airlines flight to Beijing. Reader Ken sent me the following e-mail, which I want to share with you. Dear Matthew, I thought you might appreciate this story about George H.W. Bush. In the spring of 2010 I was flying from Chicago to Beijing in United Airlines first class. I thought I was first to board the flight, but noticed several people standing…

United Airlines is about to make a big splash in French Polynesia — an exotic collection of more 100 tropical islands in the South Pacific. Beginning Oct. 30, United will fly three times a week on a widebody Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner from its hub at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) nonstop to Papeete, the French Polynesia capital city on the island of Tahiti. The new route is significant because United will become the first United States-based carrier to serve the island nation nonstop from the U.S. mainland in nearly 30…

United Airlines is shaking up the way it boards planes with a revised process that should look awfully familiar to those who have been flying with the carrier for a while. Starting Tuesday, Sept 18, United will pare back the number of boarding lanes at its gates from the current five to just two. Lane number one will be denoted with a blue sign and will be reserved for priority boarding while lane number two will be used primarily by economy travelers and will have a green sign.

We wrote about these planned changes in June when United began testing the concept at select airports including its hubs in Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston. See that here United will finally roll out the revised procedure systemwide on Tuesday. At SFO, the new procedure has been in use at some gates for several months now. (Have you tried it? Tell us about it in the comments.)