United Airlines is adding to the wave of 2019 summer US-Europe flight announcements with new year-round daily services between San Francisco and Amsterdam as well as seasonal operations to Prague and Naples from New York Newark.
United joins its fellow “big three”carrier in announcing new summer routes as tickets go on sale and, like its competitors, it is capitalizing on higher summer demand by adding services that only operate when people travel.
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United will be the only US carrier to offer non-stop flights from San Francisco and Amsterdam and the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner service will be its fifth to the Netherlands. It joins daily, year-round flights to the popular Dutch city from Chicago, Houston, New York/Newark and Washington Dulles.
It will also by the only US carrier offering daily non-stop services between the US and Naples between May 22 and October 4 in what will be its sixth non-stop service to Italy. The flight is timed to connect customers to more than 60 destinations across the US.
The daily non-stop to Prague, in the Czech Republic, begins June 6 and goes through to October 24, connecting to more than 65 US cities.
Both the Prague and Naples flights will be operated by Boeing 767s.
“We’ve built an unparalleled global network and we are continuously looking for opportunities to make United the first choice for travelers booking flights to Europe and beyond,’’ said United vice president international network Patrick Quayle.
Delta recently announced it would first nonstop flight from Tampa Bay, Florida, to Amsterdam to bring the number of services it flies between the US and Dutch city to 11. It is its second from Florida after the launch of Orlando-Amsterdam earlier this year.
The US carrier also said it would expand to daily flights services from Los Angeles to both Amsterdam and Paris Charles de Gaulle from June 16, 2019.
American is adding nine new European routes, including a daily year-round service from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Munich; daily summer seasonal services from Dallas/Fort Worth to Dublin and Munich; as well as a daily summer seasonal service from Chicago to Athens, Greece.
The US giant will add three new destinations with the introduction of summer seasonal Boeing 767 flights from Philadelphia to Berlin- Tegel Airport, Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport in Italy and Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia. There will also be a new summer seasonal service between Philadelphia and Edinburgh, Scotland.
