United Airlines plans more flights to Latin America, Caribbean in May

Chicago, Illinois, United States: The tourism industry expects to experience a boom in 2021 as all countries are reopening their borders to start money flow to the industry. All airlines are planning to expand their networks in different regions.

United Airlines plans to fly more than half of its pre-pandemic schedule in May, including more flights to Latin America than it did in May 2019, the airline announced.

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In total, United expects to operate 46 percent of its international schedule in May, compared to 2019 levels, including the resumption of service to Haneda Airport in Tokyo from Chicago and service from Los Angeles to both Tokyo Narita and Sydney.

Transatlantic service expected to return includes Newark in Milan, Rome and Chicago, Amsterdam, Munich and Tel Aviv. Recreational travel is still recovering demand, with the carrier's planned growth to 'hot beach destinations in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America to exceed pre-pandemic levels.

For its domestic network, United will use its new 50-seat Bombardier CRJ-550 fleet to add several new point-to-point routes during the summer.

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It includes service from May 27 to Charleston, S.C .; Myrtle Beach, S.C .; Hilton Head, S.C .; Pensacola, and Portland, Maine, from its main hubs, from cities like St. Louis. Louis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. United will also add three new routes from its hubs - Houston to Kalispell, Mont .; Washington, D.C., to Bozeman, Mont .; in Chicago and Nantucket, Mass. - and resumes service on 20 domestic routes.

In total, United plans to operate 58 per cent of its domestic schedule compared to May 2019. Ankit Gupta, United VP of domestic network planning and scheduling, said in a statement that United have been 'the strongest flight discussions since the beginning of the pandemic. '