Fleet breakdown

United Airlines 777-200 Business Class

CabinScore has measured 2 physically different business-class cabins that United Airlines flies on the 777-200 — rated 8.7 and 5.1 out of 10 — and booking sites sell every one of them as the same “Business” fare. Your route decides which one you board.

The Versions, Ranked2 versions · 20 tracked routes

01

United Polaris Business

55.9cm wide · 198cm bed · direct aisle access

8.7Elevated
United Airlines United Polaris Business cabin on the 777-200ER

International long-haul business-class cabin with 1-2-1 seating where each seat converts into a fully flat bed.

Spot it

  • Business class up to row 15
  • Business-class cabin arranged 1-2-1
  • Two-cabin Polaris layout on some 777-200/ER aircraft (50 seats total), typically numbered 1–15
02

United First

48.3cm wide · 193cm bed · no direct aisle access

5.1Lacking
United Airlines United First cabin on the 777-200ER

Legacy United flat-bed seats arranged 2-4-2 with alternating forward/rear-facing rows on the domestically configured Boeing 777-200 (type 77G). Seats convert to a fully flat bed (approx.

Spot it

  • On seat map: only ~28 seats up front in a 2-4-2 pattern (no Polaris 1-2-1 pods)
  • Alternating forward/rear-facing pairs across rows
  • Often labeled as 'United First' rather than 'Polaris' on domestic/Hawaii routes
48cmWidth
193cmBed
Seat Dimensions8.3
Cabin Density4.6
Privacy2.5
Product Age19 years old
Direct Aisle AccessNo

Route shares are the share of United Airlines's observed flying on a tracked route that is this cabin, resolved from flight history to individual registrations. They describe the routes we track, not United Airlines's whole 777-200 fleet — a version we haven't measured would not appear here at all.

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