Ua's 767-222's Say Good Bye

[TravelDude]

Air Transport Group agrees to acquire planes and engines from United Airlines for $32 million.

UAL Corp., the parent of United Airlines, reached a deal to sell 16 Boeing 767-222 aircraft and five spare engines to the Air Transport Group Inc. for $32 million, according to a papers filed in bankruptcy court.

The proceeds will be used to pay down UAL's debtor-in-possession loan.

UAL tried to sell the planes and parts for nine months, attracting three bids including the one from Air Transport, according to the court papers.

UAL will need bankruptcy court approval for the deal at a hearing on March 19.

Also from United Services web site
http://www.unitedsvcs.com/flash/html/aircr...raft_avail.html
"Five Model B767-222EM (ETOPS) and two Model B767-222 aircraft available now. A total of 16 aircraft will be available by June 2005."

 

[biztraveller29]

That is not United's entire fleet of 767-200s, is it? What will take over the LAX-JFK transcons, if United gets rid of all of its 762s?

 

[767jetz]

That is not United's entire fleet of 767-200s, is it? What will take over the LAX-JFK transcons, if United gets rid of all of its 762s?

Don't know off hand if that's the whole fleet or not. My guess is that it is, since UA has had them on the chopping block for a long time. This is no surprise.

Another guess is that 757's and 767-300's will take on the job of trans cons.

 

[TravelDude]

UA is being pretty typed lipped about what aircraft the fleet currently concists of since they have rejected some leases during bankruptcy. But, I am almost certain that is the entire 767-200 fleet.

 

[mga707]

Don't know off hand if that's the whole fleet or not. My guess is that it is, since UA has had them on the chopping block for a long time. This is no surprise.

Another guess is that 757's and 767-300's will take on the job of trans cons.

According to the jp book, UA had 18 -222s as of last spring. Originally a fleet of 19, N601UA through N620US minus N616UA (why that particular registration was not taken up I don't know).

Unfortunately, we all know what happened to N612UA.

As another post speculated, perhaps the other two were returned to their lessors recently.

 

[laura62]

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[MadMax767]

I think it was an economic move to get rid of the 767-200's. They are the oldest of the UAL fleet and have different engines than the 767-300 models. A notable fact is UAL was the launch customer of that airplane in 1982.

 

[coolflyingfool]

Is it possible with TED now flying and taking over more mainline routes soon, that it will free up some 757s to do the transcon to replace the 767-200s? UA might just be able to do more with less. Just my thoughts.......

 

[autofixer]

Are the UAL 767-222s common to the UAIR version?

 

[etops1]

Are the UAL 767-222s common to the UAIR version?

i don't think so. us has ge engines on their 767-200's united has pratts it think.

 

[RowUnderDCA]

My first trip on UAL and my first ride in a 'wide-body' or two aisle plane was a UAL 767 in the spring of '84, I think. I was non-reving from DEN to LAX to visit a college chum, go to a Lauri Anderson performance and to DisneyLand. And the agent up-graded me! I remember being impressed that the cabin door opened by sliding upward. Am I remembering correctly?

 

[TravelDude]

I remember being impressed that the cabin door opened by sliding upward. Am I remembering correctly?

Correct, the 767 is the only aircraft in the current UA fleet that has a door that opens up.

 

[smfav8r]

I thought Piedmont was the launch customer of the 767-200...maybe they were just the launch customer of the 767-200ER!

 

[JFK777]

Ua's 767-300ER have PW 4000 engines, the 767-200 have PW JT9D-7R4D. The-200 were all delivered non ER, some were later converted to ER after UA flew to Europe and the LHR route purchase. The 763's were purchased to fly to Europe in the early 1990's since they are not a pacific airplane, UA later bought 744 & 777 for all its international routes accross both oceans.

 

[ual06]

As I recall, the very first revenue flight on UAL's very first B-767 did a high speed abort. The auto breaks worked as advertised. The Captain later said that he would never attach that crotch strap again.