{"id":371137,"date":"2026-02-18T04:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-aircraft-largest-only-us-operator\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T04:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:31:16","slug":"which-aircraft-is-united-airlines-the-largest-only-us-operator-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=371137","title":{"rendered":"Which Aircraft Is United Airlines The Largest &amp; Only US Operator Of?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only was<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> the launch customer for the<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3507969\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 777-200<\/span><\/span>, but it remains the largest operator, and the only carrier in the<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United States<\/span><\/span> to operate the widebody aircraft variant. We&#8217;re specifically talking about the standard 777-200 here, as American Airlines also operates the extended range 777-200ER. Boeing launched the 777-200 in 1990, with its prototype rolling off the factory floor in 1994, before <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/oldest-boeing-777-flying\/\" >entering scheduled service<\/a> with United in June 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines holds a unique distinction in its fleet, operating an aircraft that no other US airline does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,398,737,3574,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-777","category-boeing-777-200","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371138,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371137\/revisions\/371138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}