In recent years United has moved to eliminate all flights that don’t begin or end in one of their hub airports of Chicago, Denver, Guam, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark, San Francisco, and Washington/IAD. Other network carriers, like Delta, have been more willing to have flights that don’t operate to one of their hubs.
In August, United added seasonal point to point flights between non-hub airports like Boston, Cleveland, Columbus, LaGuardia, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh to Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando, and Tampa.
Most of those have been discontinued for the summer, though the routes from Cleveland have survived.
United announced today that they will be adding more point to point flights this summer, most of them on their CRJ-550 plane.
I flew on the CRJ-550 this week for the first time and it’s an excellent way to fly!
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Starting from May 27th through Labor Day weekend, United will operate 3 weekly flights on these routes:
- Cleveland to/from Charleston, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach, Pensacola, and Portland, Maine.
- Cincinnati to/from Charleston, Hilton Head, Pensacola, and Portland, Maine.
- Columbus to/from Charleston, Hilton Head, and Portland, Maine.
- Indianapolis to/from Charleston, Hilton Head, and Portland, Maine.
- Milwaukee to/from Charleston, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach, Pensacola, and Portland, Maine.
- S. Louis to/from Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach.
- Pittsburgh to/from Charleston, Hilton Head, Pensacola, and Portland, Maine.
United also announced that they will resume service between Chicago and Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, Munich, and Tokyo/HND. They will also resume service between Newark and Milan and Rome.
Will you fly on any of these new seasonal routes?
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Is Chicago-tlv non stop? Starting date? Mileage cost?
Yes, 3 days per week starting May 7th.
A saver award is 42.5K coach/75K business with United miles. Cheaper with partner miles.
Excellent, though hoping for fare sales so not use up too many UR points.
Will likely fly this route in August 2021 and January 2022
you havent gone overseas since the beginning of the pandemic
OK?
lol
Had a chance to fly the 550 EWR-CLE and the spaciousness it’s just not comparable to anything else on commercial aircraft these days I do feel bad though for the single FA that did not get a chance to breath
Yup, it’s great!
on the 3d view the economy looks like it has the same space as the economy plus cmiww
Not as much legroom.