United Airlines (UAL) today announced it is expanding its schedule at its East Coast hubs in Newark and Washington–Dulles. The network adjustments build on United’s leading route network at New York/Newark where the airline serves more destinations than any other carrier from the New York City metro area. Additionally, the changes to its Washington–Dulles schedule will offer more customers easy access to the nation’s capital and seamless connections to flights throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean.

Beginning in October, United will maximize the unique strengths of each hub by adding new destinations, additional frequencies and larger two-cabin aircraft. The schedule adjustments are designed to offer more nonstop flights to destinations popular with New York area customers while reallocating largely connecting passenger flights on short-haul routes to United’s hub at Washington–Dulles. United will transition service between New York/Newark and Chattanooga, Tennessee; Ithaca, New York, and Scranton, Pennsylvania to Washington-Dulles.

“We approached these schedule adjustments with our customers in mind, knowing that we wanted to create a schedule that offers customers beginning their travel in the New York City area convenient flights to many of the business and leisure destinations they frequent the most,” said Ankit Gupta, United’s Vice President of Domestic Network. “Since more of our customers begin their travel from New York/Newark than any other United hub city, we’ve created a more customer friendly schedule that removed connection times and provided convenient nonstop service to multiple U.S. destinations.”

Newark (EWR)

Offering customers more flights to more destinations than any other airline in the New York City region, United is increasing nonstop service between Newark and 15 destinations, beginning October 4, 2018.

New service to Palm Springs and year round service to Key West

United will begin nonstop seasonal mainline service beginning December 19 through March 30, 2019, between New York/Newark and Palm Springs, Californiaand increase regional jet service between New York/Newark and Key West, Floridafrom seasonal to year round effective October 4, 2018.

Washington–Dulles (IAD)

“As we set out to build this schedule for our customers, we considered Washington–Dulles’ more optimal schedule offering for connecting flights and conducted an in-depth analysis of some of the short-haul flights scheduled from our Newark hub,” said Gupta. “We determined that by shifting certain regional flights from Newark to Dulles, our customers will have more schedule flexibility and better options for connections on regional routes.”

United Airlines and United Express operate approximately 4,600 flights a day to 354 airports across five continents. In 2017, United and United Express operated more than 1.6 million flights carrying more than 148 million customers. United is proud to have the world’s most comprehensive route network, including U.S. mainland hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark/New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. United operates 750 mainline aircraft and the airline’s United Express carriers operate 545 regional aircraft.

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United Airlines, according to Bloomberg, is dropping some Mexican routes due to decreased demand while adding another route.

United Airlines will end service to Mexico City from Los Angeles (October 4) and Denver (June 23).

The carrier will also end all service to Huatulco (June 23), Mazatlan (August 18) and Villahermosa (June 28).

On the flip side, United is adding a new route between Chicago (O’Hare) and Leon starting on October 4.

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United Airlines inherited the Micronesia and Guam route map from Continental Airlines. United is now following through on its plans to downsize its presence at Guam.

The carrier will drop the Guam – Shanghai (Pudong) route on March 25. On April 2, the airline will delete the Guam – Sendai route.

According to Airline Route, UA will also downsize will smaller aircraft and less frequencies on the remaining routes.

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