United unveils new international routes

Star Alliance carrier United Airlines has announced several new international routes for its 2010 programme. United will inaugrate new scheduled service to Africa, its first routes to the continent from May next year. Commencing May 2nd, United will operate service from its Washington Dulles hub (IAD) to Accra, Ghana and Lagos in Nigeria. The flight will be a double drop with B767 on a daily rotation. Currently the only service from Accra to the US is operated by Delta Airlines on a daily basis from JFK, whilst to Lagos Delta serve a 5x weekly B777 operation.

From April 18th, United will extend its service to Kuwait City to include Bahrain in the Middle East again consolidating its operations to serve two international markets with the same aircraft (B777). Bahrain will become the third Middle East point operated by UA with Dubai also served from Washington Dulles.

In Europe UA plans to start new service, this time from its Chicago hub (ORD) to Brussels, the new service will be operated from March 28th with B767 aircraft.