{"id":14336,"date":"2024-10-13T01:15:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T06:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14336"},"modified":"2024-10-13T01:47:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T06:47:53","slug":"united-announces-largest-international-expansion-in-its-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14336","title":{"rendered":"United announces largest international expansion in its history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">Story from United Airlines<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span><\/span>, Illinois, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">October 10, 2024<\/span><\/span>, PRNewswire<\/strong> &#8211; United Airlines announces the largest international expansion in its history with service to eight new cities.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 2025<\/span>, United will launch five new nonstop flights* from its hub in <span class=\"xn-location\">Newark\/New York<\/span> to destinations no other U.S. airline serves including Nuuk, <span class=\"xn-location\">Greenland<\/span>; <span class=\"xn-location\">Palermo<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Italy<\/span>; <span class=\"xn-location\">Bilbao, Spain<\/span>; Madeira Island, <span class=\"xn-location\">Portugal<\/span> and Faro, <span class=\"xn-location\">Portugal<\/span>. The airline is also adding three new nonstop routes from <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington D.C.<\/span>\/Dulles, including its first-ever flight to <span class=\"xn-location\">Dakar, Senegal<\/span> operating year-round and new seasonal nonstop flights to <span class=\"xn-location\">Nice, France<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Venice, Italy<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Already the U.S. carrier with the most flights across the Atlantic, United&#8217;s summer 2025 transatlantic schedule will be the largest in its history with more than 760 weekly flights. In addition to new flights, customers will have even more time to explore <span class=\"xn-location\">Venice, Italy<\/span>; <span class=\"xn-location\">Athens, Greece<\/span>; and <span class=\"xn-location\">Barcelona, Spain<\/span> with earlier start dates next summer. The airline will also increase the number of weekly direct flights between Newark\/New York-Palma de Mallorca, <span class=\"xn-location\">Spain<\/span>, Newark\/New York-Dubrovnik, <span class=\"xn-location\">Croatia<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-location\">Newark\/New York<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"xn-location\">Athens, Greece<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>United is also adding new direct flights from <span class=\"xn-location\">Tokyo<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"xn-location\">Narita<\/span> to Ulaanbaatar, <span class=\"xn-location\">Mongolia<\/span> and Kaohsiung \u2013 destinations no other U.S. airline serves \u2013 and a new nonstop flight to <span class=\"xn-location\">Koror, Palau<\/span>. These new flights will seamlessly connect in <span class=\"xn-location\">Tokyo<\/span> to United&#8217;s transpacific services to five hub locations in the continental <span class=\"xn-location\">United States<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><i>*All new routes are subject to government approvals<\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"United \u2014 New International Routes\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C2yDZZwCFzc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story from United Airlines Chicago, Illinois, October 10, 2024, PRNewswire &#8211; United Airlines announces the largest international expansion in its history with service to eight new cities. Starting in May 2025, United will launch five new nonstop flights* from its hub in Newark\/New York to destinations no other U.S. airline serves including Nuuk, Greenland; Palermo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14337,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions\/14337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}