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☆ Some wealthy travelers are replacing their hot summer trips with 'coolcations'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some luxury travel agents say more vacationers are seeking summer trips to cooler climates. In the summer of 2024, a growing number of travelers flocked to Greece as the country was experiencing deadly heatwaves and fires. Wealthy travelers are seeking out chill summersSome western European destinations like Iceland experienced a cooler-than-average summer. Roth has planned summer trips to the latter. AdvertisementA growing number of travelers are pushing their "Euro summer" trips to the fall to beat peak summer crowds and temperatures.

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United shares are up more than 80% since Jan. 1, more than double the gains of Delta Air Lines , the country's most profitable airline. United Airlines is the best-performing U.S. airline stock this year. United has been flying for nearly a century and is the world's largest airline by capacity. 3 or 4 depending on how you measure it," said Andrew Nocella, chief commercial officer of United Airlines. "United Airlines is an airline that is trying to be a more premium airline right now, much as Delta has been for more than 10 years," said Henry Harteveldt, president of Atmosphere Research Group, a travel industry consulting firm.

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☆ United plans flights to Greenland, Mongolia and northern Spain in search for next 'it' destination
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

United airplanes are seen at the Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, Unitted States on July 16, 2024. United is planning to launch daily, nonstop service to Dakar, Senegal, from Washington Dulles International Airport on May 23. United has been beefing up service from Tokyo and will offer year-round nonstop flights to Koror, Palau, from there. "The more unique content, the more we differentiate ourselves from our competitors and the more people are going to spend on United," Quayle said. United is also planning to expand flying from the West Coast, but it didn't disclose any details on Thursday.

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☆ United announced 13 new international routes and 3 'fifth freedom' flights to far-flung destinations
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

United Airlines announced 13 new routes across Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. The Chicago-based carrier on Thursday announced 13 new routes across Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America starting in the summer of 2025. Mongolia adds to United's growing list of "fifth-freedom" routes from of Tokyo's Narita International Airport. Other new fifth-freedom routes include Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and the western Pacific country of Palau from Tokyo. The airline's Europe expansion goes beyond Greenland.

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☆ How Delta made itself America's luxury airline — and what United wants to do about it
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +16 min

Rival United Airlines — second to Delta in net profit margins — is circling. Delta plans to open Delta One lounges in Boston and Los Angeles later this year, and is studying airports where it could open others. Like other airlines, Delta accepted billions in federal aid to weather the pandemic. Luxury air travel and the United States didn't go together for many years — and might not still, if you ask well-heeled globetrotters. And at Delta and other airlines, many of the perks for luxury flyers come through lounges.

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☆ United Airlines launches Morocco, Colombia flights, beefs up China service
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

United Airlines is planning to launch flights to Marrakesh, Morocco, and Medellin, Colombia, and ramp up its service to Asia, in the carrier's latest bet that consumers will continue to shell out for trips abroad. The flights from United's Newark, New Jersey, hub to Marrakesh are scheduled to begin Oct. 24 using a Boeing 767-300ER. The airline is also starting year-round service to Cebu, Philippines, from Tokyo's Narita Airport. U.S. airlines have increased their international service coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic, and revenue growth from trips abroad has outpaced domestic sales. United also said it will offer four weekly flights between Shanghai and Los Angeles starting Aug. 29.

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☆ United adds Tokyo, Manila and Taipei flights to cater to international travel boom
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

United Airlines on Tuesday mapped out another expansion of Asia flights in the coming months, part of its push to capitalize on a boom in long-haul international travel that has helped drive airlines back to profitability after the Covid-19 pandemic. International travel bookings surged this year, airline executives have said, as travelers seek long-distance trips they put off during the pandemic amid a web of travel restrictions and concerns about the virus. United announced new flights to New Zealand and Australia in April. Starting Oct. 29, United will fly daily nonstop flights between San Francisco and Manila, becoming the only U.S. airline to offer nonstop service to the Philippine capital from the continental U.S. Quayle said Tokyo flights have been in high demand since Japan lifted travel restrictions earlier this year.

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☆ United adds new trans-Atlantic flights for summer 2023 in bet on travel recovery
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

United Airlines is planning another big schedule increase for trans-Atlantic travel, in a bet that consumers will continue to shell out for international trips, some of which they had put off for years. Next summer, United says it will fly to 37 cities in Europe, Africa, India and the Middle East, a total it said is more than other U.S. airlines combined. London's Heathrow Airport warned Tuesday that travel demand is "uncertain." It will also offer flights from Washington Dulles International Airport to Berlin on a Boeing 767, starting May 25. Its additions include a nonstop from to Geneva, more London service and a resumption of daily Berlin flights, all from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

☆ United announced 7 new international routes for summer 2023 as post-pandemic demand to Europe continues to soar — see the full list
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

United Airlines announced three new destinations and four new city pairs coming to its network in summer 2023. The Chicago-based carrier announced its summer 2023 network on Wednesday, revealing three new destinations in Europe and four new city pairs not flown in 2022. Of the five long-haul routes announced last October, only Newark to Bergen will not return in summer 2023, Quayle told reporters. Captured Blinks Photography/Getty ImagesUnited will fly year-round between Newark and Dubai starting on March 25 using a Boeing 777-200ER. Between Washington, DC and BerlinUnited will fly between Washington DC and Berlin starting on May 25 using a Boeing 767-400ER.

☆ Summer's over, but the European travel season isn't
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

This photograph taken on August 7, 2018, shows an American Airlines Airbus A330-243 aircraft on the tarmac at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport, north of Paris. It's a welcome shift for airlines as they seek to drum up revenue after travel restrictions and concerns about Covid-19 sapped demand for many European trips in 2020 and 2021. Lucrative business travel segments have been slower to return than leisure, making these trips all the more crucial. "I think there's no question that people's appetite for going to Europe has gotten longer," said Kyle Potter, executive editor of Thrifty Traveler, a travel and flight deal website. Plus, a strong U.S. dollar is making fall trips to Europe more attractive, driving down costs of everything from shopping in Milan to high-end dining in Paris or London for many U.S. travelers.

It was a pricey and chaotic summer for air travel. A bigger share of flights were delayed or canceled during the main late spring and summer travel season, which runs from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, compared with the same period of pre-pandemic 2019. And on Sept. 1, the Department of Transportation published a dashboard that spells out what customers are owed when airlines delay or cancel their flights. "We're seeing a really strong September," Patrick Quayle, United Airlines' senior vice president of global network planning and alliances, said at a Cowen industry conference this week. As airlines prepare for the fall — and busy year-end holidays — here's how they handled the heat this summer:

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