TRIPREPORT | United (ECONOMY) | Boeing 777-300ER | San Francisco - Frankfurt
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- Flying long-haul on United has become a very enjoyable experience thanks to its delicious meals, multiple snack services and modernized fleet!
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Airline: United Airlines
Aircraft: Boeing 777-300ER
Registration: N2639U
Flight Time: 10h 30min
Seat: 56L
From: San Francisco Edwin Lee
To: Frankfurt Rhein-Main
Date: September 2019
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Additional equipment used: none
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Total Price: EUR 245.99
Total Routing: ARN-ZRH-SFO-FRA-ARN
Booked through: Billigflug.de
Cost includes: Economy Class Ticket without checked luggage
Booking made: April 2019
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00:00 - San Francisco Airport
02:40 - Boarding
03:47 - Cabin and Seat
04:52 - Inflight Entertainment
06:14 - Taxi and Take Off
09:13 - Lunch Service
10:53 - Mid-Flight Snack Service(s)
12:14 - Inflight
12:37 - Breakfast Service
13:36 - Approach and Landing
14:43 - Deboarding
15:42 - Frankfurt Airport
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United keeps getting better and better, especially in coach. They are now my preferred airline. But their Polaris product is the best. The Polaris lounges are on par with the best in the world. Back in the U.S., Delta and American have some catching up to do.
Delta one is a lot better of a business class product but American Airlines business is very much lacking
she was also the airplane 777
Long-hual International service of United is better than their domestic routes :))
still worse than delta in both
poultry I would say United has better long haul service. Polaris is better than DeltaOne in my opinion. United is also retrofitting its 787s long haul 777s and some of the 767s.
Bro obviously
@@G-546 definitely
Obviously lmao
Finally someone who appreciates united! Although my favorite is their smaller 777-200ER
767-400 for me (ironically, I haven't flown on one yet, though I wish to do so in the near future)
I like the 777-200ER because it’s smaller but they are retrofitting them
Best Airline United Airlines❤
Noooooooo triple 7 300ER is better and 787’s :(
Alaska airlines is better because they do not drag people off airplane
People bash on UA a lot, but I have to say their are my preferred (*A) carrier for EU-West Coast flights. Two decent meals and an adequate snack mid-flight. Decent enough complementary alcohol choices (I love their IPA's on offer), IFE has plenty of things to choose from, cabin crews usually range from ok to great, etc. Funny thing is that I try to avoid them for the EU - Eastcoast/midWest flights. Those seem to be scaled down massively compared to their West Coast service somehow...
You're correct - The inflight service from IAH/ORD/IAD/EWR-TATL and vice versa is pared down. There would be no snack and the breakfast service would only be a small croissant and yogurt. From the West Coast - they definitely put out a competitive product.
Agreed, United at least has two hot meals on flights 9 hours and longer. The other airlines don’t have 2 hot meals unless the flight is 12+.
Don't know about the west coast, but most of their flights from DC to Europe seem to be on older planes.
Juniper C who wants two hot meals, it only gives me stomach pain.
@@afcacbs8544 I would, meals every 4 hours or so that's exactly how people eat/snack. If you don't like it, you can always refuse the meal.
Nice views of San Francisco 😁👍 I usually fly through SFO from Asia-pacific routes (like NRT or HNL). Great report Felix!
Wow! Really like what I am seeing with United. New planes, new modern looking interior and a much improved service. I will consider United in my next trip to Asia.
Anyone else hear someone playing Duolingo @ 2:29?
Meeee!
I heard it
umm..... no
YOOOO thats moment🤣
Great report Felix! Very impressed with United here, both meals looks very nice and the legroom is great! Shame not all united flights were like this...
Regards,
Brendan
Flew from HNL to SFO on UAL on the 777-200. You really get a sense for how big the 777 is when you look out the window and have to look down at most of the planes. The Rockwell Collins Aspire seats were about the most comfortable coach seats I’ve sat in.
As an American, that’s what I liked the most. Hot Pancakes with sausage for breakfast!
Great 👍🏼 and luxurious United flight ✈️
I love United Airlines.
Obviously you don't live in New York City.
@@stuartlee6622 what a pretentious thing to say lol
Flew on this planes sister -300ER’s to and from Taipei from SFO in September and I was rather impressed with the flights as well. Legroom was great for economy, food was tasty and filling, and there was plenty of movies that passed the time. People bash on UA, but I rather enjoy their service.
You missed shooting the GE90 engine startup roar.😭😭
plane people sad D;
No he did hear it
🙂 yes 🥲
The security stuff has pushed me to the railroad. Thanks Felix for this video. I forwarded it to my son who flew a Lufthansa A380.
Fantastic video I liked the beautiful views of California and the bay of San Francisco, a very nice video. Thanks for uploading it
Wow, that is a lot of food compared to what other airlines offer for a US Europe flight.
Jason J it’s because the flight is from the west coast and not east coast.
HoMaster Zerg what happen to the east coast?
@@TuanPhan-dx8xt it is a shorter flight
Norweigan Airline flight attendants look at you smugly when they realize you didn't pay for food service.
Aeroflot has amazing food
The initial climb could have felt steeper because of the effect of sitting at the rear of the airplane, or it could have been because taking off from that particular runway at SFO requires a steep climb because there's a mountain right ahead to ascend over.
The jet stream helps at this time of year . I remember reading an article about how one airline used a 757 from Europe to America however they had to stop for fuel in Maine usually Bangor . They did not want to fly the 767 perhaps to save money however they lost anyway because they had to eventually stop for fuel. Thai happens to us we had to stop for fuel in Bangor coming frout ms pain and we stopped in Bangor .
Happy New Year, y’all but so much work into these videos! Keep up the good work!!!
Thank,s a lot for sharing!! Really I,ve enjoyed this trip-report. Yes. Still UNITED is an US-American airline. And your breakfast was a typically US-American breakfast table too. It,s not everyone,s breakfast-style. Last summer I was flown Premium-Economy onboard a Condor (DE) short-haul European flight from DUS to PMI. The plane was a Boeing 757-300. I was sitting in Row 1, Seat A and my parents behind me in Row 2, A & B. Besides a free middle-seat, a pillow and blanked, small ear-phones, we,ve received a breakfast too. But onboard a German holiday airline I,ve never expected a British-style breakfast, which consisted of two sausages, very spicy scrambled-eggs, a Strawberry-Yoghurt and a yummy very sweet mouse-cake. I for myself liked and enjoyed my breakfast. My dad too but unfortunately my mother isn,t a friend of such a hot breakfast-type early in the morning. Thank Good she brought her own little breakfast onboard. A salty bretzel. But of course she enjoyed two cups of coffee and a cub of water onboard. I had choose 2 orange-juice cubs.
you guys are pros, always informative and thorough
Think sitting in tail of airplane makes it feel like a steeper climb, than when in middle, or front
I dont like sitting in tail. The same turbulence felt worse than in the middle seats. Lol
I like to sit in front of the engine because if you sit behind it you don't get to hear it instead you just hear wind
Josephine Christya yeah
@@josephinechristya true
@@josephinechristya Best place to be is over the wings.
Full power take off...probably due to ATC and incoming aircraft !! Great views of a great city though !! Pancake and sausage !! Magnificent.....typical breakfast in the good ol USA !! Thanks Felix and a good flight by the look of things from an airline which often gets very negative reviews!! Thanks mate and well done again !!
another great video. fantastic views over SF
We’re flying the reverse in May -- United 777-300ER from Frankfurt to San Francisco. We’re also in row 56, but on the port side. :-)
Also appreciate that you got the vegetarian dinner (we’re longtime vegans).
We had a remote post for a Delta 777-200 in CDG (from Atlanta)
Thanks again!
So did you end up going? You know Covid and stuff.
@@daniyalamed2960 Wow, great to hear from you! We didn't then, but we just got back Friday from that trip. Ended up on 777-200s between DFW and FRA.
Take care!
This long haul product seems better than I expected. I would definitely consider this as a good option for long haul flights.
Simply Aviation îmi plac enorm postările tale!
Felix, great video. Quick question - have either you or David ever missed a flight? 😊
Splendid video Simply aviation!
Great, all inclusive video. As a former Brit living in Toronto, I have acclimatized to eating sweet and savoury on the same plate although there have been some horror stories namely, while visiting friends in Buffalo NY, I was served a delicious beef stew with an orange jello accompaniment. I still shudder thinking about it.
That was a fast take off. 25 seconds from stopped to airborne is fast for almost any passenger jetliner, especially for a mostly loaded wide body (albeit not fully loaded).
7:00 I like watching the wing go from convex looking with the tip pointed down to the airflow changing the shape of the wing to be concave and the tip pointed upward. VERY cool to see this flex. The initial climb out of SFO when you're taking off to the Northwest is steeper and faster because of the mountains that are in close proximity to the airport, there is also some noise abatement restrictons in that area, so the faster and quicker they can take off the better, with less noise. USUALLY planes land on that runway from the south and most take offs are from the West to East which also goes steep over the flight path of OAK north south approach.
Everytime I watch a trip report I always pay attention to the inflight magazines and legroom. Hemispheres is provided and surprisingly the legroom is quite decent. My only concern is the 3-4-3 configuration. guess it must be really tight and narrow compared to 3-3-3
Yep. Just how 3-3-3 787 is narrow compared to the 2-4-2
United used to have 3-3-3 on the triple seven, at least the -200
Wow it looks like United has really upped its service game. I'm impressed
Enjoyed seeing this trip report departing my home airport!
Dude awesome video, thanks for share 👍🏾👏🏾
Awesome video man
Nice to see how US airlines improved the quality. In addition there are not impacted as frequently by restitutionary groups striking as european carriers are. Nice video, thanks.
The view of the peninsula and the city were alone worth the price of admission!!
Happy new year ever one hope you have a great year nice video!
United has always good legroom on all of his fleet
Nice vid
Bull.
Omgggg I love your long flights so much!!:) in going on British airways A350-1000 in may from San Francisco-London Heath row
Great review as always! I recently flew from EWR to MXP (Newark to Milano Malpensa) onboard a brand new 777-300ER, and I had a very different experience. I was in seat 41A, and apart from the touch-screen infotainment system being a pain to use as it was very slow, the seat felt extremely crammed and I got really bad back pain around 30 minutes into the flight due to the lack of back support that the seat gave me - note I'm an athletic 18 year old, I shouldn't have back pain :) The seat was uncomfortable, but again, it felt very narrow and crammed. As beautiful and clean as the cabin was, the seat itself I felt was much tighter that the seats on the older 777-200s that United uses, in fact, for this route they usually use the 200 but due to some technical issue, they supplied us with a 300ER. Just wanted to share this as I was curious that everyone had such a different experience to me!
United long haul seem to have a very decent economy onboard service.
Nice video. FYI: SFO has since changed the gate numbers so that each lettered terminal begins with "1" now, e.g. the "G" gates are now G 1-14 instead of the former G 91-102. Apparently the older numbering system was confusing to visitors.
I once did 17.5hrs in United economy and lived to tell the tale 😀
United recently repainted one of their B777 in the new livery!
Has to be said...this was among the better economy travels among your videos...
Nice report! Keep up the good work
Great video. Can't say I like the densified 3-4-3 seating though
In the industry, 3/4/3 seating is called a "sardine can"
The climb out of San Francisco tends to be a little steeper than normal because of the hills to the west of the airport.
Europeans are about sweet and salty too. Just listen to Little Mix’s “Wasabi” ☺️
7:30 Yeah that looks like about 20 degrees of pitch in that initial climb, if not a little more, which is very steep for a heavy, almost at the Orange County takeoff level. I’ve seen what 20+ degree takeoffs look like in GeoFS and from the outside they look like they’re literally rocketing out of the airport and pulling an air show stunt.
More on topic, though, I am pretty sure planes have to rotate very early and take off very steeply from the 28 runways at SFO because if you look down the path the 28 runways go, you will see that almost immediately past the end of the 28 runway threshold (the 10 end) there is high terrain everywhere. Almost all of those areas are highly developed and lots of people live on those hills (part of Daly City and SSF). Not to mention San Bruno Mountain is 1,300 feet high, has several important Bay Area radio / weather / communication towers on its peak, and is immediately to the right of you as you take off from the 28s. Then the high terrain drops off at the Pacific Ocean (just north of Pacifica) in the form of high sea cliffs and that’s when your plane is now above the ocean. This sort of reminds me of the high terrain you can see immediately beyond the end of San Diego Airport’s runway, which also goes over a highly developed area and straight towards the Pacific. I am not an expert on takeoff-related calculations, but I would think that pilots would want to play it safe by climbing as quickly as they can. At SFO, in particular, they have to compensate for the aforementioned high terrain, so they intentionally climb steeper than normal on the 28s. I believe that San Diego Airport Runway 27 takeoffs would be very steep as well for similar reasons.
And also St. Maarten’s runway. Pilots seem to pull up extremely hard and make super sharp steep turns immediately off of it because there are very tall mountains past the end of the runway if you look straight down it (of course when the takeoff roll is going away from the famous beach which is the most common pattern).
I just flew LHR-EWR on United in Polaris Business and I have to say it was the best flight I’ve ever been on. I would highly recommend Polaris Business!
I recently flew from Sydney to Houston a flight of over double the flight time and certainly didnt get food like that only one main meal
I just love pancakes with butter and syrup and sausage (links or patties) or bacon or ham...
Do you prefer to sit at the back of the plane or is that just where you were put?
Did you ask for 2 Mango ice cream, LOL!
He had someone travelling with him.
Nice capturing and do metion travelling time... It will be so good... Awesome ❤️❤️
...serving a lot of food. Yum!
I sat in the very front of the 777-300ER, the cabin narrows to front as well as the rear. What's it like sitting in the back of that jet powered behemoth?
I’m curious to see a review and your opinion on Delta’s new ala carte meal service.
Awesome thanks for sharing 😌
I once said the A350 was my best airplane NOW its the 777. many a times it makes watching long haul flights interesting no matter the service.
Well done great viewing , how long was the flight? I did fly with United once from Mia to Chicago then 747/8 to Frankfurt
I really love your videos nice and simple
15:30 St. Petersburg‘s Pulkovo airport does (or at least did)
Long haul aircraft will likely have good legroom on most airlines. Domestically here in the US now that’s a different story!
Yay it’s United 777
United is probably the best airline in the US for International Flights. They are my favorite airline in the US!!
Rome FCO also uses remote stands alot...
why do United use remote stand in all of its fright to Frankfurt?
Great report!
Row 56 is insane 😱
I was in texas a few days ago and I flew on united airlines new livery
Pilots West to east is that a shorter route than east to west or at this time of the year you had a tail wind and fly this route specifically
Not a pilot here - but, there is more tail wind at this time of the year. As a result, east to west is longer and west to east is shorter 👍
Madrid has also remote stands for international arrivals!
Airports in Greece and Italy have remote stands and sometimes at Istanbul airport too.
i was actually in frankfurt a couple days ago
Familiar with the environment San Francisco International Airport
In general US airports need improvements, but US carriers are not actually bad at all. My family took the 17-hour flight from Singapore to Los Angeles on a United B787, and it was pretty smooth. Advantages of flying US carriers on international routes: extra legroom and frequent serving of refreshments.
I liked this flight report
can somebody explain to me if or was an house/building under the golden gate at the city side? since Full house im wondering what could it be :D thx^^
It makes me so annoyed how so people passionately hate united just for that PR disaster which actually was done by republic airlines..smh
@Malik Luka its a bot, I can link you about 30 other comments that say the exact same thing from about 30 different users
Correction….. it was the CDA, not United or Republic
Wheres the start up roar
I recently flew (in December) SFO-LHR-SFO, and I was quite impressed by the flight. The in-flight service was pretty good, food was very tasty. In fact, I got cooked oatmeal with Fruits (with no added sugar) for my Breakfast, prior to landing at LHR. The call button got a response within 30 seconds, and automatically they come with water. The in-flight crew was smiling all the time.
I will definitely take United when flying to Europe, from now on. They were pretty good -- far better than my recent Emirates experience (SFO-DXB-JNB-CPT-DXB-SFO).
Awesome videos keep it up
what time was departure>
at least you had a tv....
I flew from San Francisco to Chicago on a United Airlines 777 in economy and they had removed all the tv's from the seats... couldn't figure out why
That is probably an old 777G/M that eventually are planning to retire. Thats why United hasn't bothered to install video system. No need to spend money on something that eventually will be replaced with newer aircrafts.
Best place to see the views of San Francisco is in a airplane taking off and leaving!! Lol
It’s not just you. The climb out from that runway at SFO has to be steep in order to clear San Bruno Mountain. See United 863 😱
How much were the tickets? How did that compare to Lufthansa's price?
How is the 3-4-3 in coach? I’ve read so many times that people can’t stand it but your reviews seem to make it look okay.
The complaints about United puting 3-4-3 were exxagerated. United was actually pretty late to the game in terms of densifying coach. In fact, United introduced 3-4-3 at the same time as Qatar Airways. ANA & Air New Zealand also have 3-4-3. In short, United doesn't deserve criticism for putting in one more seat per row because so many other airlines have done the same before United
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As an American Asian, I don't know why breakfast is served that why either.
As an American, I don’t know either. The only reason that I can think of is that it tastes good :D
Nice video. Wished United ran their 777-300ER’s domestically :P #OneDay
Genki's Travels 777-300ER is a long range aircraft.
@@PLANEMANIA747 They can use it for domestic flight if the route has high demand
Genki's Travels occasionally United operates the 777-300ER on some of their transcontinental routes like SFO-EWR.
Edit: Also, United operates flights between SFO-DEN as well as other hub-hub flights like also SFO-IAH
Steven Stevanus that’s what I’m hoping. Or a repositioning flight. :)
Over the summer, I think I saw a United 777-300ER flying from IAD to SFO on Flightradar24
Decent economy service nice
just wondering what's the airport you can see under the wing at 8.44?
That is Oakland International Airport (OAK). It is just across the Bay from SFO. The aircraft took off flying away from OAK then after making a U-turn towards Germany, overflew San Francisco and OAK. This was a very beautiful day and departure. Usually, this flight would have taken off in the opposite direction (straight over the OAK area) and none of the beautiful city views would have been captured.
If you sit near the back of the aircraft (behind the engines), the cabin gets louder. That's been my experience, so I always try to avoid it.
You had me at free beer.....
anytime I get to see a flight to Germany is a great day for me.
awesome trip report! As an Asian, I'd say I'm not a fan of United meals though :) However, their cabin light is wonderful
United is operating this route twice a day?