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They didn't take it away completely, but it's now at the flight crews discretion. You can kindly ask a flight attendant to ask the pilot if they will have channel 9 on or ask if they will.

Found this about it[0], but there is still the occasional person asking about it on FF boards and the answer is still, to politely ask the FA about it

[0] https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-channel-9-story/

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I'll have to ask next time. That said the article is quite wrong in that you can't hear conversation in the cockpit, only conversation on the active frequency. You could never and probably will never hear pilot to copilot conversation.

Guess I wasn't paying attention to it, I skimmed it since I fly United often and already knew what it actually was (not pilot conversation). Wasn't sure about posting a specific thread from www.flyertalk.com [0] probably should have just posted that. I dont usually have much luck with it, but I only remember half the time to ask.

[0] https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/...

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