Talk:United Airlines

Former good article nomineeUnited Airlines was a Engineering and technology good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Current status: Former good article nominee


Semi-protected edit request on 16 September 2025

Add ITA Airways under alliances and codeshare agreements [1] 202.86.32.122 (talk) 01:52, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. I’ve added them in the list. (Please review to check if I’ve done what you meant). By the way, the source used in that table already mentions ITA. (The live version, not the archived one. I don’t know if I should change the archived one to a more recent one, because that might not be accurate for some of the other partners.)
Thanks for your request. Slomo666 (talk) 17:17, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 23 September 2025

The destination of Douglas-Charles Airport in Dominica from Newark Airport is missing. Casimir28 (talk) 04:28, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. The source you provided doesn't list that as an available route. Nubzor [T][C] 13:07, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Founder

I added the "quotation needed" template to the founder because William E. Boeing seems to suggest the founding company was United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, which bought a bunch of small airlines and THEN put them under United Air Lines. Our article is also unclear if Boeing had a controlling interest or really was the sole controller and thus founder of UAL. A quote from the source could clear this up easily, so I've requested one. EducatedRedneck (talk) 02:04, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Newark (-Liberty) Airport

I've seen a little back-and-forth around what to call the airport located in Newark. I suggest we do away with the piping altogether per MOS:EGG and just have it be Newark Airport. I'll see if I can go through and similarly de-pipe some of the others. I suggest this for 3 reasons:

  1. MOS:PLACE #1 says that when there is a commonly used name, we should use it. It appears that calling it simply "Newark Airport" is more than twice as common as any construction containing "Newark Liberty". Therefore, we use the common name.
  2. There is no confusion over what "Newark Airport" is. This means that, even if there's a name change, "Newark Airport" will still be clear.
  3. For the same reason, depiping means if there is any change in the future, we won't have to worry about redlinks or otherwise go through every instance of "Newark Liberty International Airport" and change it to the new name. By using the redirect instead of piping, all we have to do is let someone change the "Newark Airport" piping to the correct name.

Precedent already exists for things such as the North Korea, which uses the common name rather than the mouthful of DPRK. EducatedRedneck (talk) 00:41, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Also, note in our list it's San Jose International Airport, note Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport. EducatedRedneck (talk) 00:54, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah Newark is the sole major airport in Newark, so it doesn't need Liberty for disambiguation (unlike say, Houston-Intercontinental to distinguish from Houston Hobby, or Chicago-O'Hare to distinguish from Chicago-Midway). 4300streetcar (talk) 02:47, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
This. There’s no need for the disambiguation. At this point using “Newark” alone to represent the airport is long-standing precedent across dozens if not hundreds of pages. RickyCourtney (talk) 03:34, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]