New UA Routes SEP 2020 • EWR ↔ OGG/JNB • ORD ↔ KOA/DEL/TLV • IAD ↔ LOS/ACC • SFO↔BLR
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New UA Routes SEP 2020 • EWR ↔ OGG/JNB • ORD ↔ KOA/DEL/TLV • IAD ↔ LOS/ACC • SFO↔BLR
United is teasing new routes via social media again, this time it's an Instagram video post containing "over 30" clues for new service. Announcement is coming tomorrow, September 9, 2020, at 10am CT.
The video heavily suggests international service, with multiple passport shots and a Patrick Quayle cameo. For those who don't know, PQ is United's VP for International Network planning, so perhaps this announcement will outline some of United's winter leisure plans. Latin America seems to be a logical choice.
Take a look at the post, and let the guesses begin...
The video heavily suggests international service, with multiple passport shots and a Patrick Quayle cameo. For those who don't know, PQ is United's VP for International Network planning, so perhaps this announcement will outline some of United's winter leisure plans. Latin America seems to be a logical choice.
Take a look at the post, and let the guesses begin...
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The map in the video gets several UA hubs circled in blue pen. But it felt the focus was on EWR
The smart phone in the video lists:
ANR Belgum (only served by Air Antwerp & TUI)
AUX Brazil (only served by Gol)
BGW Iraq (lots of service.... but um yea..)
GYD Azerbaijan (lots of service... but doesn't seem to be in UA's wheelhouse)
BWI (doesn't make for an intl route)
BKO Mali (yea.. ok maybe?)
BWN Brunei (yea... ok maybe?)
BKK Thailand (this is my front runner)
BGF Bangui (a former refugee camp in 2017... now run by the UN)
Side note.... um could have just been a tricky camera angle, but the guy at his kitchen table with white headphones, dressed business on the top, but casual on the bottom seemed to have been in... an ... um "excited" state under the table
The smart phone in the video lists:
ANR Belgum (only served by Air Antwerp & TUI)
AUX Brazil (only served by Gol)
BGW Iraq (lots of service.... but um yea..)
GYD Azerbaijan (lots of service... but doesn't seem to be in UA's wheelhouse)
BWI (doesn't make for an intl route)
BKO Mali (yea.. ok maybe?)
BWN Brunei (yea... ok maybe?)
BKK Thailand (this is my front runner)
BGF Bangui (a former refugee camp in 2017... now run by the UN)
Side note.... um could have just been a tricky camera angle, but the guy at his kitchen table with white headphones, dressed business on the top, but casual on the bottom seemed to have been in... an ... um "excited" state under the table

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I'll go on the record with my pick of EWR-OGG as a stone-cold lock, guessing 763ER. A few hints at that if you look carefully, even though it's domestic. Probably a total of 7 new routes.
Expecting 787-8, 787-9 and 767-300ER service, based on some of the images, and there are photos of EWR, IAD, ORD and SFO. A Tulip, and a reference to BKK even makes it in there...
I thought I saw Chantilly in the same frame, so I wonder if it was a map of VA rather than Austria... time will tell!
Expecting 787-8, 787-9 and 767-300ER service, based on some of the images, and there are photos of EWR, IAD, ORD and SFO. A Tulip, and a reference to BKK even makes it in there...
I thought I saw Chantilly in the same frame, so I wonder if it was a map of VA rather than Austria... time will tell!
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Would love this one. Was stunned the first time I tried to fly to VIE and found out that exactly zero US based carriers fly there. Nothing wrong with Austrian, actually a pretty good airline, but would prefer to keep all my travel on United and going there and back as it is just easier overall.
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I hope it's Istanbul but there are no clues about my hometown.
And, as the video focuses on passports and a transatlantic departure pattern from EWR ( paper with blue pen markings ), I guess that they are introducing a new transatlantic route from EWR.
And, as the video focuses on passports and a transatlantic departure pattern from EWR ( paper with blue pen markings ), I guess that they are introducing a new transatlantic route from EWR.
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I'll go on the record with my pick of EWR-OGG as a stone-cold lock, guessing 763ER. A few hints at that if you look carefully, even though it's domestic. Probably a total of 7 new routes.
Expecting 787-8, 787-9 and 767-300ER service, based on some of the images, and there are photos of EWR, IAD, ORD and SFO. A Tulip, and a reference to BKK even makes it in there...
I thought I saw Chantilly in the same frame, so I wonder if it was a map of VA rather than Austria... time will tell!
Expecting 787-8, 787-9 and 767-300ER service, based on some of the images, and there are photos of EWR, IAD, ORD and SFO. A Tulip, and a reference to BKK even makes it in there...
I thought I saw Chantilly in the same frame, so I wonder if it was a map of VA rather than Austria... time will tell!
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