Fleet breakdown
United Airlines 787-9 Business Class
2 versions · 8.8 to 9.1 out of 10 · 18 tracked routes
CabinScore has measured 2 physically different business-class cabins that United Airlines flies on the 787-9, rated 8.8/10 to 9.1/10 — and booking sites sell every one of them as the same “Business” fare.
The Versions, Ranked
Top routes are the ones we most often observe each cabin flying, from the flight history we track, resolved to individual registrations; the percentage is how often a flight on that route is this cabin. They describe our tracked network, not United Airlines's whole 787-9 fleet — and a version we haven't measured would not appear here at all.
How to Tell Which One You're Getting
United Polaris Business (Elevated Interior)9.1/10
United's Polaris Business Class on the new 787-9 "Elevated" interior: 56 fully enclosed suites in a 1-2-1 layout with sliding privacy doors, direct aisle access, and lie-flat beds. Center seats alternate orientation by cabin section (reverse herringbone in the forward cabin, herringbone in the rear cabin). A self-serve snack bar sits between the two Polaris cabins.
- Seat map shows a 64-seat business cabin (rows 1–17) with 8 bulkhead Studio seats at rows 1 and 9, and 56 enclosed Polaris suites behind them
- Privacy door visible on each suite — distinguishes this from older UAL 787-9 Polaris (no doors)
- Center seats face the window in the forward cabin section and face each other in the rear cabin section
- 19-inch 4K OLED IFE screens; suede cabinet trim and quartzite countertops
United Polaris Business8.8/10
United’s long-haul Business Class product on the 787-9 is a 1-2-1 layout of lie-flat suites (marketed as Polaris), with alternating seat orientations by row; the 787-9 currently commonly operates with 48 Polaris seats across two business cabins (forward and aft).
- Business class up to row 12
- Business cabin in a 1-2-1 configuration with “open suite”/suite-style seats that convert to fully flat beds
- Alternating odd/even row geometry (some seats closer to windows, some closer to aisle)
Routes United Airlines Flies the 787-9 On18 routes
The percentage is this cabin family's observed share of United Airlines's flying on that route. Each route page shows the full equipment mix — including the other aircraft types United Airlines and its competitors schedule on it.