CHICAGO, June 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- United Airlines
announced today it will resume service to China with twice-weekly flights between
San Francisco and Shanghai's Pudong International Airport via
Seoul's Incheon International
Airport beginning July 8, 2020.
United will operate service with Boeing 777-300ER aircraft from
San Francisco to Shanghai on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Customers traveling from Shanghai
will return to San Francisco
on Thursdays and Sundays.
"United's service to mainland China has been a point of pride for our
employees and customers for more than 30 years," said Patrick Quayle, United's vice president of
International Network and Alliances. "Resuming service to
Shanghai from the United States is a significant step in
rebuilding our international network."
Flight
|
Depart
|
Day
|
Time
|
Arrive
|
Time
|
UA 857
|
San
Francisco
|
Weds.,
Sat.
|
11:00 a.m.
|
Shanghai
|
5:45 p.m.+1
day
|
UA 858
|
Shanghai
|
Thurs.,
Sun.
|
9:40 p.m.
|
San
Francisco
|
8:55 p.m.
|
Prior to suspending service to Shanghai in February due to COVID-19, United
was the largest U.S. carrier serving China and operated five daily flights between
Shanghai and its hubs in
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New
York/Newark and has served Shanghai for more than 30 years. In July,
across the Pacific, United will also reinstate service between
Chicago and Tokyo with the addition of new service to
Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
Additionally, United will resume service to Seoul; restart service to Hong Kong and will fly to Singapore via a stop at Hong Kong.
Committed to Ensuring a Safe Journey
United is committed to putting health and safety at the
forefront of every customer's journey, with the goal of delivering
an industry-leading standard of cleanliness through its United
CleanPlus program. United has teamed up with Clorox and Cleveland
Clinic to redefine cleaning and health and safety procedures from
check-in to landing and has implemented more than a dozen new
policies, protocols and innovations designed with the safety of
customers and employees in mind, including:
- Requiring all travelers – including crew members – to wear face
coverings and temporarily revoking travel privileges for customers
who do not follow these requirements.
- Using state-of-the-art high-efficiency (HEPA) filters on all
United mainline aircraft to circulate air and remove up to 99.97%
of airborne particles
- Using electrostatic spraying on all aircraft before departure
for enhanced cabin sanitization
- Adding a step to the check-in process, based on a
recommendation from the Cleveland Clinic, requiring customers to
acknowledge they do not have symptoms of COVID-19 and agree to
follow our policies including wearing a mask on board
- Offering customers a touchless baggage check-in experience at
more than 200 airports across the United
States; United is the first and only U.S. airline to make
this technology available
For more details on all the ways United is helping keep
customers safe during their journey, please visit
united.com/cleanplus.
About United
United's shared purpose is "Connecting People. Uniting the
World." For more information, visit united.com, follow @United on
Twitter and Instagram or connect on Facebook. The common stock of
United's parent, United Airlines Holdings, Inc., is traded on the
Nasdaq under the symbol "UAL".
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