United inaugurated flights between San Francisco and Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on Sunday 29 October. The 11,245-kilometre service will be maintained daily with the 350-seat 777-300ER aircraft. The carrier will compete directly against Philippine Airlines’ daily flights on the route. Flight UA191 departs San Francisco at 00:35 local time, arriving in Manila at […]
November 1, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Asia is large and important market from the United States, including its Pacific Ocean territories. According to Cirium schedules data, there are 4,881 departing non-stop flights across August, excluding the Middle East. This makes Asia the US’s third largest continent/region after Europe (17,218) and the Caribbean (10,338). However, flights remain a third lower than in […]
August 21, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
ITA Airways introduced a new transatlantic service on Saturday 1 July between Rome FCO and San Francisco. The 10,080-kilometre route will initially be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, after which frequencies will be increased to 5-weekly from 1 August. A 334-seat A350-900 is being utilised on the service. The SkyTeam member will compete […]
July 10, 2023 | Latest Route News +
ZIPAIR (IATA code ZG), a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Airlines, has added a fourth US destination from its home base at Tokyo NRT. On Friday 2 June the carrier began 5-weekly operations on the 8,245-kilometre service to San Francisco. It will operate the 290-seat 787-8s on the route on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. ZIPAIR will complement […]
June 8, 2023 | Latest Route News +
ITA Airways has 12.29 billion ASKs to, from and within Italy this summer, according to Cirium schedules information data. It is behind only Ryanair as the largest airline serving the southern European nation. Replacing Alitalia, ITA’s first commercial flight was on 15 October 2021. Eighteen months later, it remains 30% smaller by ASKs than perpetually […]
March 22, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Breeze began operating out of Cincinnati on 8 February by inaugurating flights to Charleston in South Carolina and San Francisco in California. Both routes are being maintained 2-weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the A220-300 aircraft. Breeze competes directly against Allegiant on the 800-kilometre service to Charleston, while it is the sole operator on the […]
February 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Earlier this month, on 3 December, Australian flag-carrier Qantas began 3-weekly service on the 14,440-kilometre route between Melbourne and Dallas/Fort Worth. This brought to 17 the number of non-stop airline services between the US and Australia. Back at the end of October, United had introduced 3-weekly service between San Francisco and Brisbane. Between 2004 and […]
December 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
United launched a new route between the US and Australia when it commenced service between San Francisco and Brisbane on Friday 28 October. The inaugural flight of UA96 departed the Californian airport at 23:45 and arrived in the Queensland city 13 hours and 41 minutes later, at 06:26 on Sunday 30 October, according to flightradar24.com. […]
November 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Breeze has started two new routes from San Francisco. On 4 August the carrier, which launched its first scheduled service on 27 May 2021, began connecting the Bay Area airport with Provo in Utah and San Bernardino in California. The routes are currently set to operate daily using the airline’s E190 fleet. San Francisco became […]
August 10, 2022 | Latest Route News +
United Airlines added a new airport to its US route network on 19 December when it began daily flights from three airports to Bishop in central eastern California. The airport, although just two kilometres from Bishop, is promoted as Eastern Sierra Regional Airport. The three routes are from United’s bases at Denver, Los Angeles and […]
January 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +