United Airlines has today officially announced that it will be resuming China flights soon. United Airlines will resume twice weekly nonstop flights between San Francisco and Shanghai as of July 8, 2020. The route will be operated with Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, with the following schedule: UA857 San Francisco to Shanghai departing 11:00AM arriving 5:45PM (+1…
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UA's currently using GUM for their current cargo flights in the same way DL's using ICN their passenger flights. A bit disappointed and confused why this wasn't also extended to UA's passenger flights. Was looking forward to a short lived direct GUM-mainland passenger flight. .-.
And there're people hope United can fly their high density 8-abreast 777-200 to Shanghai (Though can't, it's not ER or LR)
The whole thing is messed up.
Why is the flight time longer on the return? Is there an intermediate stop somewhere?
At this point, the crew is at far higher risk of catching COVID in the US than during a layover in either China or Korea.
@leo sadly there won't be a mainland-gum flight for quite a while 🙁 UA were to introduce a SFO-GUM direct in January 2021 but will likely now be shelved. They planned on timing the flight for European connections as CI,KE,OZ had seen massive upswing in bookings to GUM & ROR from Europe, we can dream!
UA will be using ICN to change crew as well, as you see the westbound time between SFO to PVG is over 15h+, in the announcement UA also said via ICN
Earlier this week UA was showing direct service between SFO - ICN using a 787-9 for later this summer/fall. Now it looks like everything is via NRT, a few exceptions via HKG.
@bsp but right now it shows via HKG.
I know it's very difficult times for the airlines but UA is a train wreck. East Coast US to ICN is $3K in economy, over $6K in premium economy. DL on the other hand is less than $3K for premium economy. I have almost 500 points on UA I would like to use, but their routes and pricing are wearing thin on me. It may be time for his 1K to jump ship like others. Losing the flight to NRT was bad too. No one in their right mind would go via HND when you're looking at an 8 hour or greater transit time to continue on to other Asian destinations.
But as we see second wave of the Wuhan Virus hitting Beijing, clearly by now ICN TPE or HKG will be safer than China by a lot
And UA will undoubtedly choose ICN for a better routing
UA crew will not overnight in Shanghai. By law, everyone will be test in Shanghai if they were to enter. if UA crew overnight in Shanghai, and test positive on arrival, they would be stuck
At the current rate, I wouldn't be surprised if China banned incoming air travel from the US.