Summary
- United Airlines temporarily pauses the beginning of direct flights to Beijing and Shanghai from Newark.
- The airline was scheduled to begin every day direct services between Newark, Shanghai, and Beijing starting on January ninth, but these flights are actually expected to start in mid-February.
- In February, United Airlines plans almost to double the available seats, increasing from 124 flights to 317. This represents a further 49,000 seats between the US and China.
United looks to be shaving flights to China, with data from Cirium outlining the carrier will pause its upcoming direct service from Newark to Beijing and Shanghai. Easy Flying reported on the capability increase earlier this 12 months, where the airline planned to almost quadruple its weekly service to and from China; nevertheless, that appears to be momentarily on hold.
Initially commencing January ninth, 2024, United was going to operate a every day direct service between Recent York’s Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and each Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) and Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK). These are actually only expected to begin in mid-February.
Photo: Vincenzo Pace/Easy Flying
January
For the primary month of 2024, the Star Alliance member appears to be keeping a low profile in China, with the below flights now paused until February:
- Newark to Beijing
- Newark to Shanghai
- Washington Dulles to Beijing
- Chicago to Beijing
- Chicago to Shanghai
By January, United was presupposed to be operating just about all of its China routes every day and a few twice every day, like San Francisco to Shanghai, and it’s increased to double every day from January ninth; it will not occur until the center of February together with the opposite network expansions.
Photo: United Airlines
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February
February will look loads more positive, with the carrier expected almost to double the seats on offer. A jump from 124 flights to 317 between the 2 months will represent almost an additional 49,000 seats between the US and China, with most city pairs representing a further 3,400 seats in each direction, alongside SFO to Shanghai gaining its second every day service between the 2 cities. Let’s break it down below:
To / From |
Monthly flights |
Monthly seats |
Newark to Beijing |
15 |
4,140 |
Newark to Shanghai |
15 |
4,140 |
San Francisco to Shanghai |
44 (a rise of 16) |
14,290 |
Los Angeles to Shanghai |
15 |
3,855 |
Washington Dulles to Beijing |
15 |
3,645 |
Chicago O’Hare to Beijing |
15 |
3,645 |
Chicago O’Hare to Shanghai |
15 |
3,645 |
San Francisco to Beijing |
29 (stays unchanged) |
10,150 |
Photo: Vincenzo Pace | Easy Flying.
Back in Beijing
United Airlines only relaunched its SFO to Beijing connection on Thursday, just in time for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting, which is being held in San Francisco. UA888 departed from SFO on November ninth, departing at 11:32, 42 minutes behind its scheduled departure time of 10:50. The flight was capable of make up time en route. It landed only ahead of schedule at 17:23 (as a substitute of 17:25) – two days later because of crossing the international date line. The outbound service had a flight time of 13 hours, 51 minutes.
The return flight, UA889, was pushed back from PEK on Saturday, the eleventh, initially with a scheduled departure time of 19:20; the flight departed at 19:40 before crossing the Pacific back to the Golden Gate, touching down at San Francisco International Airport at 14:07, ahead of it’s expected time of 14:50. Flight time of ten hours and 27 minutes.
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United deployed its three-year-old Boeing 777-300ER for the primary flight, registration N2250U, serial number 66590, which first took flight for the carrier in December 2019.
Sources: Cirium, Flightradar24