00:00I am here aboard United's brand new A321XLR, which starts service domestically on September 1st,
00:05and then in December, we'll see some cool international routes. This plane has a really
00:09nice Polaris cabin, has a really nice Premium Plus, but let's be honest, I'm an Economy Plus boy.
00:13This is where I'm going to be. So, Economy Plus with open middle. And this is it. There's one
00:17right there, and then there's one right here. There's two of these only, so it'll be a hot
00:21commodity. Basically, elbow room to the max, right? I can comfortably sit here, still get the extra
00:27room and extra pitch that we know about from Economy Plus. That's why a lot of people upgrade
00:31for extra legroom. But for all the tech radar readers internationally, like in London, you're
00:35like, this isn't new probably, right? But it is new for a U.S. airline and for a U.S.
00:39airline to do
00:39this on international routes. It'll be sold at a slightly higher price point than Economy Plus.
00:44Your guess is as good as mine is that. But with these domestic routes, when the A321XLR is doing
00:48some of those runs, you might just get lucky and score an Economy Plus with nobody in the middle.
00:52It's definitely a lot more room. You get two cup holders and nice leather padding, and it's really
00:56just a metal table that's bolted here. So you'll have that plenty of legroom. I guess you can fight
01:01over whoever boards first to use that underseat storage. You technically get two extra USB-C ports.
01:06You can make use of that to charge more devices, and you won't be fighting over your classic wall
01:10adapter. Aside from that, classic United OLED experience. Maybe the best part about this point,
01:14free, fast Starlink, and it'll be Starlink internationally, so you won't have to worry about
01:18boarding a 757 or a 767 with those classic Panasonic Vsats. For the full story on United with
01:24OpenMiddle, check out techradar.com.
