United to fly to 8 exotic locales it has never flown to before

After weeks of gearing up flight fans for a "big announcement" and "major network expansion," United Airlines (UAL) outlined 2025 routes that failed to disappoint, offering a variety and big collection of recent destinations infrequently ever served promptly by U.S. airlines.

In total the Chicago carrier will launch flights to eight cities it has never flown to ahead of — Greenland's Nuuk, Spain's Bilbao and Mongolia's Ulaanbaatar, among others.

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The latter, through Tokyo's Narita International Airport (NRT), is a fifth-freedom flight that passengers on other United flights to Japan can connect through to. This flight will launch on May 1 and run three times every week; the same United flight to Taiwan's Kaohsiung will launch on July eleven. (Fifth-freedom flights stop in a city, and some passengers get off while others stay on to a final destination.)

United's new routes: Mongolia, Senegal and Palermo. Oh, my!

"Nearly half 1,000,000 people visited Mongolia to this point in 2024, up 25% when put next with 2023, because the country continues to trend as one within the whole pinnacle places to debate with in Asia." It's how United explains Ulaanbaatar as a new destination.

"Most of that amplify has come from Europe, South Korea and Japan – and United's new service from Tokyo/Narita flights will give American citizens a new, easy attributable to debate with."

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Direct routes from the U.S. are focused heavily on the airline's hub at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) — the announced new flights will go to Greenland's Nuuk, Italy's Palermo and Spain's Bilbao in addition to as both Faro and Madeira Island in Portugal. (The latter is often often called "the Hawaii of Europe" and has been seeing growing numbers of American tourists.)

New United flights launched from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) include a year-round route to Senegal's Dakar and seasonal flights to Nice in France and Venice in Italy. The three flights will launch on May 23, 24 and 22, respectively.

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'Many unique international destinations and experiences from the U.S.'

"No other airline gives customers nonstop access to as many unique international destinations and experiences from the U.S. as United," Patrick Quayle, United's senior vice president of world network planning and alliances, said in an announcement.

"Our network provides the foremost choice and variety for our customers, whether they are in search of out a chilled seaside getaway, once-in-a-lifetime adventure go from side to side or to explore loads of the foremost vibrant urban escapes across the globe."

For the Palermo flight, United will use a Boeing 767-four hundred (BA) while yet another new route between San Francisco and Costa Rica's San Jose will run on a Boeing 737 Max eight.

The choice of aircraft for other flights has now not yet been announced; the goal is always to maximise the collection of passengers who will pay for lie-flat seats on routes where demand warrants it.

On top of the new destinations, United also said it became bringing back seasonal flights to Athens and Barcelona from Chicago and San Francisco, respectively.

And starting May 1 it may possibly probably possibly most likely amplify flights from Newark to Dubrovnik, Croatia, to on every day basis from three times every week.