COME SEPTEMBER: United resumes international service

United has announced plans to resume service on nearly 30 international routes in September, including flights to Asia, India, Australia, Israel and Latin America and to continue to add ways to visit popular vacation destinations in the Caribbean, Hawaii and Mexico.

The airline says it intends to fly 37% of its overall schedule in September as compared to the same period last year and is a 4% increase in capacity compared to what is planned for August 2020.

U.S. Domestic
Travellers in search of more socially distant vacation options like beach, mountain and national park destinations will continue to see opportunities for leisure travel including:
• Increasing opportunities to connect to more than 800 flights from United’s mid-continental hubs in Chicago, Denver and Houston
• Adding more than 40 daily flights on more than 48 routes across the United States
• Resuming service between the U.S. mainland and Hilo and Kauai in Hawaii
• Increasing service between the U.S. mainland and Honolulu, Kona and Maui.

Atlantic
Internationally, United is scheduled to fly 30% of its schedule in September compared to the same period in 2019. Across the Atlantic, it plans to offer customers more opportunities to get to Europe and beyond from Chicago, Houston, New York/Newark, and San Francisco.

Highlights include:
• Launching brand-new service between Chicago and Tel Aviv (subject to government approval)
• Resuming service between Chicago and Amsterdam
• Resuming service between Houston and Amsterdam and Frankfurt
• Resuming service between San Francisco and Munich
• Increasing to daily service between Chicago and Frankfurt, and between San Francisco and London
• Continuing service between the United States and Delhi and Mumbai (subject to government approval).

Pacific
Across the Pacific in September, we plan to re-start three-times-weekly service between Los Angeles and Sydney and passenger service between Chicago and Hong Kong (subject to government approval).

Latin America/Caribbean
Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, United is expanding across each region by adding 20 new routes for September. Highlights of the schedule include:
• Starting new service between San Juan, Puerto Rico and Chicago and Washington-Dulles
• Resuming service from Houston to Aguascalientes, Tampico and Veracruz in Mexico
• Starting new service between New York/Newark and St. Thomas
• Resuming service between Costa Rica and Houston and New York/Newark
• Adding more ways to get to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, including resuming service from Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles
• Resuming service between Denver and Cabo San Lucas
• Increasing the number of flights between Houston and Quito, Ecuador.