United Airlines will launch a second daily Los Angeles-Hong Kong flight on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft starting 26 October, complementing its two existing daily flights to Hong Kong from San Francisco.
Additionally, the Star Alliance member will add four weekly flights between Los Angeles and Shanghai from 29 August, and from late October it will upgrade the route to a daily service.
The Shanghai flights will also be operated by United’s three-class 787-9s, with 48 1-2-1-configured seats in Polaris business class, 21 in 2-3-2 premium economy and 188 in 3-3-3 economy class.
This service complements United’s daily service between San Francisco-Shanghai and San Francisco-Beijing and it is the result of an updated agreement between the governments of the United States and China to increase flights between the two countries.
United says it now has the largest and most diversified international route network among US airlines, offering nonstop service to 134 international destinations across 67 countries, and offering flights to more destinations across the Atlantic and Pacific than all US carriers combined.
