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United to buy 100 widebodies to spearhead route expansion

[ December 15, 2022   //   ]

United Airlines has place a firm order for 100 new Boeing 787 Dreamliners  with options for 100 more – the  largest widebody order ever by a US carrier, it says.

The airline now expects to take delivery of about 700 new narrow and widebodyaircraft by 2032, including an average of more than two every week in 2023 and three a week in 2024. It expects to take delivery of the new widebody planes between 2024 and 2032 and it can choose among the 787-8, 9 or 10 models for a wide range of routes, it adds.

Approximately 100 planes of the new widebody order are expected to replace older Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 aircraft, with all 767 aircraft removed from the United fleet by 2030.

Over the past summer United says it has become the largest airline between the US and the Atlantic region – Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa.

Earlier this year, United launched ten new flights including to several places no other North American carrier serves such as Amman, Jordan; Tenerife, Canary Islands; Ponta Delgada, Azores and Mallorca, Spain.

Next summer, expansion will continue to Malaga, Spain, Stockholm, Sweden; and Dubai as well as six more additional flights to destinations in Europe, including Rome, Paris, Barcelona, London, Berlin and Shannon.

In the last three years, United added five new nonstop flights to four cities in Africa and now offers nonstop routes to Cape Town and Johannesburg from Newark/New York and to Accra, Ghana; Lagos, Nigeria and Cape Town from Washington DC.

United’s recent agreement with Emirates, which begins with a new nonstop flight between Newark/New York and Dubai in March 2023, will expand its reach into the Middle East and India, with connections to nearly 100 cities.

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