United May Schedule Focuses on Latin America, New Point-to-Point Routes


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United Airlines plans in May to fly more than half of its pre-pandemic schedule, including more flights to Latin America than it flew in May 2019, the carrier announced.

In total, United expects to operate 46 percent of its international schedule in May compared with 2019 levels, including resuming service to Tokyo’s Haneda airport from Chicago and service from Los Angeles to both Tokyo Narita and Sydney. Transatlantic service slated to return includes Newark to both Milan and Rome and Chicago to each Amsterdam, Munich and Tel Aviv. Leisure travel continues to drive demand recovery, with the carrier’s planned growth to “warm beach destinations” in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America to outpace pre-pandemic levels.

For its domestic network, United will use its new 50-seat Bombardier CRJ-550 fleet to add several new point-to-point routes over the summer. These include service, beginning May 27, to Charleston, S.C.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Hilton Head, S.C.; Pensacola, Fla.; and Portland, Maine originating away from its major hubs, from cities including St. Louis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. United also will add three new routes from its hubs—Houston to Kalispell, Mont.; Washington, D.C., to Bozeman, Mont.; and Chicago to Nantucket, Mass.—and resume service on 20 domestic routes.

In all, United plans to operate 58 percent of its domestic schedule compared with May 2019. Ankit Gupta, United VP of domestic network planning and scheduling, in a statement said that United in the past few weeks has “seen the strongest flight bookings since the start of the pandemic.”

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