United Airlines Upgauging Strategy Throws 50-Seat Market Into Question

Ben Goldstein Jens Flottau July 06, 2021
United 737 MAX
United ordered 200 Boeing 737 MAXs and 70 Airbus A321neos to replace more than 200 aging 50-seat aircraft.
Credit: United Airlines
“It’s all about gauge, gauge, gauge.” That is how United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby described the company’s recently announced 270-aircraft narrowbody order on June 30 during an investor call. Carrier orders 270 new narrowbodies to replace aging 50-seaters Upgauging strategy could reshape regional...
Ben Goldstein

Based in Boston, Ben covers advanced air mobility and is managing editor of Aviation Week Network’s AAM Report.

Jens Flottau

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and leads Aviation Week Network’s global team of journalists covering commercial aviation.

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