United Airlines Upgauging Strategy Throws 50-Seat Market Into Question

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...

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