A couple of weeks ago United Airlines announced some new long haul flights, including to Africa, India, and Hawaii. Last weekend United put its new Hawaii flights on sale, and United has now put its two new ultra long haul flights on sale. Let’s take a look at the details, because up until this point…
Continue reading: Details: United’s New Flights To Bangalore & Johannesburg
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Wow both flights are very long. I am sure the flight to Bangalore will do very well.
Considering COVID and travel restrictions, I find it interesting United is starting with daily service to Johannesburg, rather than 3x weekly.
wow, last night every day in July/August was available for I/IN and PZ. By morning, only a handful of days 🙁
Nice to know details, BUT . . . . i personally doubt, UA will start JNB flights!
As of just this weeks opening of South Africa and the list of countries NOT allowed to enter the country, the US is out of luck!
Germany is free to go as of now and even UK, France and Netherlands who also provide a ton of flights there are on the RED list of South Africa.
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/countries-on-south-africas-coronavirus-travel-restricted-red-list-2020-9
Don't think, the situation in the US will change soon and therefore, i don't think UNITED will start those flights as planned.
I’ll definitely be giving that SFO-BLR a try as my company partnered with a processing plant in the outskirts of Bangalore last year. Our COO was quite happy about hearing this new route as it’ll give our team a one stop route to southern India. I’ll report back once I give it a try next year.
Not gonna lie, United really have to step up their service on flights to India if they want to steal the market share from the ME3. My aunt recently flew from Delhi to Newark in United 77W in Premium Economy.
On that 15 hour flight, she was only given a rock-hard bread and an ultra-small box with rice immediately after take-off at 1 AM lol, and literally after 15 hours, which is just an hour before landing in Newark, they provided her with the second meal which included a croissant and a packet of orange juice. Seriously United?
Wonder if post Corona SQ would consider a RTW flight SIN-BLR-SFO-SIN in both directions.
@bruh I think it’s just reduced coronavirus service. I very very frequently fly UA48 on the 77W EWR-BOM and the return U49 BOM-EWR. In all 3 cabins, there’s 2 full meal services and a mid flight snack which is fairly substantial. Regardless of whether I’m in Polaris, premium plus, or economy plus, I’m always satisfied with meal portions (for the most part)
Please keep us updated. I fly United frequently to SAfrica and am booked with miles at the end of Jan 2021. Ticketed Hou London Zurich JHB may well delay and re route.
Thank you so much for all your timely and accurate information during this time.
Denise