United Airlines

As JetBlue today launches its first transatlantic route, Routes takes a look at the current state of play in the lucrative market between the US and UK.

United Airlines became the first U.S. legacy carrier to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees, as the delta coronavirus variant sweeps through North America and threatens the ongoing recovery in air travel demand.

The Aviation Week Network has compiled aircraft orders for decades, but tracking the emerging and building order stream for advanced air mobility (AAM) airplanes is a different matter entirely.

Routes rounds-up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carriers’ networks.

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is betting that corporate and long-haul international traffic will fully recover over the next few years—and that United will be ready to meet it with its network of large coastal hubs and fleet of premium-heavy aircraft.

Flights are being added from Washington and Houston following the removal of quarantine restrictions for fully vaccinated passengers.

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has been the driving force behind initiatives that have positioned United Airlines as the avant-garde of the global airline industry.

United Airlines and its regional affiliate Mesa Airlines have conditionally agreed to order 200 19-passenger electric airliners from Heart Aerospace as they participated in the Swedish startup's $35 million Series A funding round.

“It’s all about gauge, gauge, gauge”—that's how United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby described the company’s recently announced 270-aircraft narrowbody order on an investor call June 29.

The order from Chicago-based United—its biggest ever and the largest by any airline in over a decade—consists of 50 737-8s, 150 737-10s and 70 A321neos.

Capacity today between the countries is at just 15% of pre-COVID times.

United Airlines believes dynamics in the post-pandemic domestic market will be different for LCCs looking to capitalize on the shrinking of larger network airlines.

The United deal, which also covers options for 35 additional aircraft, envisages introduction of the first civil supersonic services on trans-Atlantic and Pacific routes by 2029.

Daily passenger throughput at US airports has been approaching the 2 million mark on peak travel days

Routes rounds up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carrier’s networks.

United Airlines sees demand, including business travel, continuing to recover beyond the 'summer surge' US carriers are experiencing.

United Airlines sees a steady climb underway that will help continue the post-summer leisure travel surge and deliver positive earnings in the 2021 third quarter.

American Airlines and United Airlines are to increase service to Spain after the European country’s government confirmed that borders would reopen from June 7 to travelers who have been fully vaccinated.

The planned resumptions follow efforts to open borders to passengers who have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Routes rounds up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carrier’s networks.

The regional service has been suspended since May 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The carrier expects a jump in demand in July as the US market appears be normalizing.

The airline added 400 new flights to its July schedule, including a host of routes to leisure destinations in the U.S., as well as select flights to Europe.

Governments on both sides of the pond must heed the calls for the swift and safe return of transatlantic flights between the two countries.

Air travel 'between low-risk countries' should resume, executives tell White House.