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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So 15 years ago you took a short afternoon flight and yet recall the particular aircraft you flew and you're now/still ruminating on the plane's possible itinerary? Must have been some special flight.. . . [/quote]

Not PP, but I remember my first 777 flight.  Don't you?

A good friend of mine knows EVERYTHING about the various planes/configurations.  Some people like planes.  :D
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I also like planes and find them interesting, but it was a weird comment to say that United flies 777s domestically when referring to a flight that happened 15 years ago.  Lots of changes in aircraft have happened since then and most aircraft in use by airlines have gotten much smaller.[/quote]

Not smaller.  Newer.[/quote]

Domestically, the planes have gotten smaller.  Regional Jetss are in use by most airlines for many flights across the country.  I always used to take a 737 to visit my parents in the early 2000s and now it's on an RJ every time.  I flew to Chicago last December on United and it was also an RJ. The only time I am ever on a 777 is internationally from IAD to Europe or somewhere else.  There are certainly bigger planes in use (the A380, etc), but they are not flying domestically in the U.S.  [/quote]

It's the airline you're flying.  That's not the case for every airline.[/quote]

The regional jets don't fly from east to west coast non-stop.   Jet blue-Frontier-Spirit-SW don't use regional jets.  American and United have widebodies, narrowbodies, regionals, plus turboprops [fly short hops like to Newark or Philly].[/quote]

Jet Blue does use regional jets.

I never said that airlines don't use bigger planes ever, just that many of the routes that used to be flown with bigger planes (i.e. 777s) now use smaller planes.  Not necessarily RJs, but maybe A320s or 737s.  Case in point - the flights to ORD from here no longer use the 777 the PP remembers so fondly - they use RJs and 737s.  [/quote]

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