United Continental Holdings will invest more than a half-billion dollars in its onboard product. These product improvements include: adding flat-bed seating on 62 additional long-haul aircraft, bringing total aircraft with flat-bed seats to 185, adding Economy Plus seating and Channel 9 air traffic control audio to more than 300 aircraft, nearly doubling the overhead storage space on more than 150 aircraft, installing advanced broadband Wi-Fi on more than 200 aircraft and introducing streaming wireless video onboard its 747-400 aircraft, completely retrofitting its p.s. fleet with flat-bed seats, Economy Plus, on-demand audio and video and Wi-Fi.
These and other planned product changes come in addition to the 25 new aircraft – including the Boeing 787 Dreamliner – that the airline will introduce to its fleet next year. United and Continental have each made significant product and service improvements over the past several years and since the airlines closed their merger Oct. 1, 2010.
