TRIPREPORT | United (ECONOMY) | Boeing 777-300ER | San Francisco - Frankfurt 

Long-hual International service of United is better than their domestic routes :))

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.

Finally someone who appreciates united! Although my favorite is their smaller 777-200ER

Anyone else hear someone playing Duolingo @ 2:29?

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...

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.

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.

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.

You missed shooting the GE90 engine startup roar.😭😭

Wow, that is a lot of food compared to what other airlines offer for a US Europe flight.

Nice views of San Francisco 😁👍 I usually fly through SFO from Asia-pacific routes (like NRT or HNL). Great report Felix!

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.

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.

Happy New Year, y’all but so much work into these videos! Keep up the good work!!!

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

you guys are pros, always informative and thorough

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!

Simply Aviation îmi plac enorm postările tale!

Splendid video Simply aviation!

another great video. fantastic views over SF

Fantastic video I liked the beautiful views of California and the bay of San Francisco, a very nice video. Thanks for uploading it

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.

Enjoyed seeing this trip report departing my home airport!

Think sitting in tail of airplane makes it feel like a steeper climb, than when in middle, or front

Dude awesome video, thanks for share 👍🏾👏🏾

Wow it looks like United has really upped its service game. I'm impressed

This long haul product seems better than I expected. I would definitely consider this as a good option for long haul flights.

Great report!

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 .

...serving a lot of food. Yum!

Awesome video man

Nice report! Keep up the good work

United has always good legroom on all of his fleet Nice vid

I once did 17.5hrs in United economy and lived to tell the tale 😀

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 !!

Europeans are about sweet and salty too. Just listen to Little Mix’s “Wasabi” ☺️

Happy new year ever one hope you have a great year nice video!

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.

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!

The view of the peninsula and the city were alone worth the price of admission!!

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.

I liked this flight report

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.

Awesome thanks for sharing 😌

I really love your videos nice and simple

Yay it’s United 777

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).

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).

United is probably the best airline in the US for International Flights. They are my favorite airline in the US!!

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.

Has to be said...this was among the better economy travels among your videos...

Great video. Can't say I like the densified 3-4-3 seating though

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.

I just love pancakes with butter and syrup and sausage (links or patties) or bacon or ham...

United recently repainted one of their B777 in the new livery!

Awesome videos keep it up

United long haul seem to have a very decent economy onboard service.

Omgggg I love your long flights so much!!:) in going on British airways A350-1000 in may from San Francisco-London Heath row

Familiar with the environment San Francisco International Airport

Great job mate love your trip reports such a pleasure to watch. Ignore those sad souls that give you thumbs down...

Did you ask for 2 Mango ice cream, LOL!

Felix, great video. Quick question - have either you or David ever missed a flight? 😊

Row 56 is insane 😱

Nice review

As an American Asian, I don't know why breakfast is served that why either.

Decent economy service nice

Nice capturing and do metion travelling time... It will be so good... Awesome ❤️❤️

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!

The lunch of united looks amazing and also the plane it's so new, I love your content and I know your job and the money what you spend for us 🎅🏻🏡🛫🇺🇸🇩🇪

Nice video. Wished United ran their 777-300ER’s domestically :P #OneDay

Food provided very well

Long haul aircraft will likely have good legroom on most airlines. Domestically here in the US now that’s a different story!

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.

You had me at free beer.....

I was in texas a few days ago and I flew on united airlines new livery

Caraca mano este avião é tão grande e é o vôo United é Boeing 777_300ER é tão chique 🇺🇸

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.

Just flew HKG - SFO on the same plane was a great flight Loved the feature that let you listen to ATC

That was the smoothest landing ever!!!

anytime I get to see a flight to Germany is a great day for me.

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

15:30 St. Petersburg‘s Pulkovo airport does (or at least did)

gained a subscriber :)

Nice video

Is are amazing

i was actually in frankfurt a couple days ago

The climb out of San Francisco tends to be a little steeper than normal because of the hills to the west of the airport.

Madrid has also remote stands for international arrivals!

I flew this beaut from SFO-SYD and SYD-SFO.

You are amazing

2:29 Was that chime what I thought it was?!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet you are smart

Best place to see the views of San Francisco is in a airplane taking off and leaving!! Lol

The power of 230,000 pounds of take off thrust!!

I told u their flights from the west coast to europe are top notch

awesome trip report! As an Asian, I'd say I'm not a fan of United meals though :) However, their cabin light is wonderful

Hey keep up the good work I like yours videos can you do trip report about avianca

That was a smooth landing

Review is okk upto the standard of flights