3/31/2023 0 Comments United flight 2168 flightcheckUnited 767-300ERs jet between Houston and Washington Dulles, Newark and Chicago O’Hare. (The Houston-LAX flights will even get the brand new stretched 787-9 Dreamliner!) You’ll frequently find those on flights between Houston and Denver, LAX, and SFO. United is the only airline to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner within the USA. Note: Hawaiian has single aisle Airbus A321s on order that will eventually replace some widebodies from the west coast. Hawaiian’s A330s offer domestic style recliners in first class, as well as premium economy (“Extra Comfort”) seating in the fore cabin of the plane. Hawaiian Air flies both Airbus A330 and Boeing 767s between the mainland and Hawaii– a standout as several carriers are now sending their single aisle planes down to the islands. Hawaiian Airlines unusual front-of-the-plane setup on its A330s has first and premium economy in the same cabin (Photo: Chris McGinnis) LAX-Miami has a variety of 767-300ERs and 777-200s.Īnd passengers on Miami-Orlando get a nice, wide 767-300ER for the one-hour ride across the Everglades. You’ll find DFW-LAX and Miami-SFO flights using a 767-300ER. Please join the 100,000+ people who read TravelSkills every month! Sign up here for one email-per-day updates!ĪA’s domestic widebodies are almost exclusively hub-to-hub. Also, there are no consistent trends showing that airlines price widebody flights higher than narrowbody flights. Note that the big birds are on not on every flight, every day– just a chosen few. We asked Routehappy to show us all the widebody planes jetting around the US on a given day: October 1st, in this case. (Disclaimer: an author of this post used to work there.) One good tool for finding widebody flights is Routehappy, the half flight search, half data source startup that matches aircraft types to flights and scores them by comfort and amenities. But not all domestic widebodies offer big new seats up front… notably, US Airways’ 767-200s have older cradle-style sleeper seats, and Delta’s domestic 767-300, coded as 763s, have standard domestic first class seats (see photo).īut how do you find them? Savvy travelers know where they are, but the airlines don’t make it easy when hunting for a flight. Up front on a widebody, you could find a fully flat bed seat à la international business class to stretch out - usually for no extra fee over domestic first. And internationally-equipped widebodies often offer more robust on-demand entertainment, power outlets, USB sockets, bigger bins and other bells and whistles.ĭelta’s domestic first class section on a non-Business Elite 767-300 (Photo: Delta) ![]() Whatever the reason, it’s a bonus for passengers, since widebodies tend to give you more room (or at least the perception of more room) than single-aisle narrowbodies, no matter where you’re sitting in the plane. Sometimes widebodies are deployed for short periods of time, like Air Canada’s positioning of a Boeing 767-300ER on SFO-Toronto for four months this winter. Hawaiian Airlines flies only widebodies from the mainland to Hawaii. These big birds are either providing a lot of seats on high-demand routes, positioning planes from hub to hub, offering premium products on valuable flights, or adding temporary capacity for special events. WOW Air to Iceland in Economy Class A330Ĭheck out all that space in economy class on a big, wide United 767 (Photo: United)Īre the golden days of flying domestically on spacious widebody, twin-aisle aircraft gone? Not necessarily, if you know where to look.Īll four major US international airlines - American, Delta, United and US Airways - still operate a handful domestic widebody flights.Singapore Airlines Premium Economy SFO-SIN. ![]()
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