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United Airlines. PLANE GO WOOSHHH!! (click “see more”) READ PINNED POST BEFORE POSTING/COMMENTING. Yes, you can complain. We’re not shills and not run by employees.. I ban shills. Promise. Special flairs: If you're a United employee or Global Services, PM /u/Player72 with proof (ID badge etc) and you'll get a special flair. Don't come in here with a low quality rant without any additional info. You can complain, just don't be an idiot and make sure you ELABORATE on the issue if you need our advice. Founded 2012 · 267.2K members

270.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 65K upvotes, which works out to 240 per 1,000 members.

240peak upvotes per 1,000 members
270.9Kmembers
65Kbest post
8.5Kmost comments
577posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

47% 27% 16%
Text 47% Image 27% Question 16% Gallery 5% Link 4% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question 187 Discussion 127 Image 72 News 15 Video 7 Shitpost/Satire 7 Star Alliance 4 Mod Post 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Somehow the only person on my flight and the pilot was such a goofy goober

↑ 65K 💬 1.7K gallery 2026

UA flight - 'turn bluetooth off or we're turning around'

↑ 34.3K 💬 6.9K text 2026

Police are filmed dragging man off United Airlines flight

↑ 26K 💬 1.1K link 2017

UA 236 “The Bluetooth Flight”

↑ 23.9K 💬 1.9K image 2026

My pilot snagging a preflight white monster so I know we’re ready to grip it and rip it.

↑ 18.6K 💬 307 image 2026

Other passengers attempted to bully me to give up my seat

↑ 10.6K 💬 687 text 2025

On a flight this AM from LAX to EWR a dad came on with 5 young children (6-11 years old I would guess)

↑ 10.4K 💬 240 text 2026

Just witnessed really upsetting incident with a disabled elderly passenger and United flight attendant

↑ 9.9K 💬 1.2K video 2025

UA556 rockstar captain

↑ 9.4K 💬 288 image 2026

Our 4-year-old was seated alone and United acted like we were the problem

↑ 9.4K 💬 1.1K text 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/unitedairlines, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/unitedairlines?
r/unitedairlines ("United Airlines") describes itself this way: PLANE GO WOOSHHH!! (click “see more”) READ PINNED POST BEFORE POSTING/COMMENTING. Yes, you can complain. We’re not shills and not run by employees.. I ban shills. Promise. Special flairs: If you're a United employee or Global Services, PM /u/Player72 with proof (ID badge etc) and you'll get a special flair. Don't come in here with a low quality rant without any additional info. You can complain, just don't be an idiot and make sure you ELABORATE on the issue if you need our advice. It was founded in 2012 and has 267.2K members.
How many members does r/unitedairlines have?
r/unitedairlines has about 270.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 577 of its posts; the biggest reached 65K upvotes, which is 240 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/unitedairlines?
"Somehow the only person on my flight and the pilot was such a goofy goober" reached 65K upvotes and 1.7K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/unitedairlines.
What subreddits are similar to r/unitedairlines?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/unitedairlines?
Of the posts we hold, 47% are text posts and 27% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/unitedairlines?
Across 577 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 03:00 UTC (8.9K avg upvotes), Saturday at 22:00 UTC (8.6K avg upvotes), Monday at 13:00 UTC (4.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/unitedairlines?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/unitedairlines has 7.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 70 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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