United is adding several awesome flights to its schedule for 2025.
- United will fly twice weekly seasonally between Newark and Nuuk, Greenland starting 6/14, for the first nonstop service between the US and Greenland. Instead of an 11.5 four flight via Iceland, it will take just over 4 hours nonstop on a 737 MAX8.
- United will fly three times weekly seasonally between Newark and Palermo, Sicily starting 5/21 on a 767-400. Palermo is now United’s 5th city served in Italy, after Naples, Milan, Rome, and Venice
- United will fly between Newark and Bilbao, Spain three times weekly seasonally starting 5/31 on a 757-200. Bilbao is now United’s 6th city served in Spain, after Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, and Tenerife.
- United will fly between Newark and Faro, Portugal four times weekly seasonally starting 5/16 on a 757-200.
- United will fly between Newark and Madeira Island, Portugal three times weekly seasonally starting 6/7 on a 737 MAX8. United’s will fly to 5 cities in Portugal, including Faro, Lisbon, Madeira Island, Porto, and Ponta Delgada in the Azores.
- United will fly three weekly year-round flights between Washington/IAD and Dakar, Senegal starting 5/23 on a 767-300. This is United’s 6th African destination after Accra, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Lagos, and Marrakesh, more than any other US airline.
- United will fly daily nonstop year-round between Tokyo/NRT and Koror, Palau starting 4/2 on a 737-800. Palau is one of my favorite destinations, with stunning islands and incredible Jellyfish Lake. United currently flies between Guam and Manila to Palau.
- United will fly nonstop year-round between Tokyo/NRT and Kaohsiung, Taiwan starting 7/11 on a 737-800.
- United will fly nonstop seasonally between Tokyo/NRT and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia starting 5/1 on a 737-800.
- United will add seasonal daily nonstops between Washington/IAD and Venice starting 5/22 on a 767-300, in addition to Newark-Venice.
- United will add seasonal 4 weekly flights between Washington/IAD and Nice, France starting 5/25 on a 767-300, in addition to Newark-Nice.
- United will resume Newark-Athens seasonal flights on 3/6, Newark-Venice on 3/29, and Newark-Dubrovnik, Croatia, which will increase to daily service on 5/1. Newark-Palma de Mallorca is increasing to 4 weekly flights.
- United will resume service between San Francisco–Barcelona and Chicago-Athens on 5/1, which will be operated on a larger Boeing 787-10 aircraft.
United says this will be its largest-ever trans-Atlantic schedule with more than 760 weekly flights to over 40 destinations.
Sadly though, this schedule is made possible in part by the removal of United’s 28 weekly round-trip flights between Chicago, Newark, San Francisco, and Washington DC to Tel Aviv, which has been suspended indefinitely. United’s 3 weekly flights to Amman also remain suspended indefinitely.
United also continues to shrink its Guam hub, which has been losing destinations for years, especially after the Continental merger. It has been moving those extra ex-Continental Micronesia 737-800s to Tokyo/NRT.
United used to offer an extensive Asia network from Hong Kong and Tokyo and Delta/Northwest offered one from Tokyo as well. Those were eliminated over the years, with Delta and United opting to focus on long-haul flights and connections to partner airlines.
Delta used to fly nonstop between Tokyo/NRT and Palau, but that flight was eliminated in 2018, along with flights like Tokyo to Bangkok, Manila, Saipan, Shanghai, Singapore, and Taipei. Delta ended all Tokyo/NRT service in March 2020. However, with United now offering 4 regional destinations out of Tokyo, it seems that the airline will continue to grow that niche operation.
Some of those are very cool flights to destinations that were not easy to fly to from the US! You have to love United’s guts in its willingness to try out non-conventional routes and destinations.
United also says that a Transpacific announcement will also come later this year. The airline has done very well with its San Francisco-Manila service that launched last October. Will we see nonstop service between San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City or maybe even Bangkok? Stay tuned…
Which of these flights are you excited to fly on?
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I’m sorry I missed the Tel Aviv route in that list. Did I overlook it?
Yes, I am being sarcastic!
Sadly, as I noted in the post, there’s no doubt that a lot of this growth is due to AMM/TLV suspensions.
62 weekly long-haul flight suspensions can free up a lot of capacity.
Tlv would be way more profitable. Ask Elal.
That’s going to remain an El Al monopoly as long as fighting continues in Israel. They can house crew in Israel, the US airlines can’t.
Interesting fact, but I flew UNITED in March ‘24 when they resumed for some weeks to Israel, and the flight purser told me that TLV is the most profitable route for United, I though she’s joking, but she said no, all flights all seats to and from TLV are fully sold out.
I saw already empty seats, bus was interesting to me.
Out of so many destinations they fly, like London, they have 6 or 8 flights a day from NY itself, why shouldn’t they add another 3 flights a day to TLV!?
Anyone know when these will be bookable?
Usually within several days of an announcement.
Interesting still not showing up on United, I guess still some issues to be worked out
The flight days wound have been very helpful…otherwise it’s hard to find which says
Right? And could have also prices for all dates, award availability, plane configurations, meal options, etc. /s …Just use Google Flights and check nonstop jeez
Since the some flights aren’t available for purchase yet they won’t be on Google flights
Unfortunately as exciting as the Greenland service seems, it’s essentially useless for most people.
Ilulissat, which is the real reason one would typically go to Geeenland, is above the Arctic Circle and the sun remains up for 24h beginning a few weeks before the United seasonal flights start. This means that there ARE NO ZMANIM to speak of. ALYOR but you will be hard pressed to find a rabbi knowledgeable in these halochos to give you a heter to go. You can go there in the spring and fall, but summer and winter are a completely different story.
(Note the difference between this and Iceland, Alaska, most of the Antarctic Peninsula – there you normally have a sunset and sunrise so even though there is no real night, the halachic options are well-established and workable. In our case, there is absolutely no sunrise or sunset so everything is completely different.)
Most people. 😀
I do recall getting a heter for a certain cruise to Antarctica, though to be fair, we didn’t think we would get to a point of no sunset (or even no shkia emitis with a shkia haniris), and in the end we didn’t.
Nuuk always has sunset. And sunset (shika haniris) returns to Ilulissat on July 24th, so no zmanim issues for a later summer trip even if you want to go there. If you want to go l’chumra, Shika emitis returns on July 27th.
Rabbi Dovid Heber of the star-k is a massive baki on these inyanim
What did Rabbi Heber say about this Shayla?
What are the days of the week are the Greenland flights?
We should get that information when the flight go up for sale.
I have the fondest memories of Madeira. Incredible scenery and amazing hiking. Has the Hawaii views, but European-style laid back.
A lot of supplies to Greenland go via Copenhagen. This will work better than CPH for US supplying facilities with commercial goods.
Very cool destinations! Madeira and Palermo are on my list. Will be interesting to see passenger demand although cargo could be big on some of these island routes..
Most of these flights are narrow-body which were not used for TLV anyways. worth noting that 757s are long out of production and nearing end of their useful life, seems they’re pulling them from domestic routes..
Freed up frames means that 787 routes move to 777, 767 routes move to 787, 757 routes move to 767, etc. and more planes become available for the network
Interesting.
Was hoping to see a return of the Newark-Prague seasonal route that was killed off during COVID… Oh well
Any idea when united will fly again ewr to bud? cant believe theres still no direct flights
VIE is too close and a big Star Alliance hub
VIE is not the same. – and it is also only serviced (nonstop US cities) by Austrian. (Not to mention that the lack of competition makes it cost prohibitive almost round the calendar)