United adds European nonstops
- United is adding new nonstop summer routes to Split (Croatia), Bari (Italy), Glasgow (Scotland) and Santiago de Compostela (Spain). (travelandtourworld.com) - The carrier is also adjusting Boeing 767 long‑haul flying and right‑sizing seasonal transatlantic capacity like Athens–Newark. (travelandtourworld.com) - United’s additions show network growth persists even amid broader industry fuel concerns. (travelandtourworld.com)
United Airlines is adding four new nonstop flights from Newark next summer: Split, Bari, Glasgow and Santiago de Compostela. (united.com) United said on October 9, 2025 that it will be the only U.S. airline flying nonstop from Newark/New York to Split, Glasgow and Santiago de Compostela, and the only U.S. airline on Newark-Bari. Tickets for the new routes went on sale that day. (united.com) The new flights extend United’s transatlantic schedule from its Newark hub, where the airline said it plans service to 46 Atlantic destinations in summer 2026. United also said it expects to offer nearly 3,000 weekly international roundtrips next summer. (united.com) The expansion follows a year in which United carried a record 181 million passengers and posted $59.1 billion in 2025 operating revenue, the highest in company history. The airline said its international network and larger widebody schedule helped drive that growth. (united.com) The aircraft matter because these are long flights that need bigger jets than most domestic routes. United’s Boeing 767 fleet seats about 167 to 231 passengers, depending on the version, placing it between the airline’s narrowbody 757s and larger 777s and 787s for long-haul flying. (united.com) United is also reshuffling that long-haul capacity rather than adding flights everywhere at once. Its current Newark-Athens schedule for summer 2026 is on sale, but outside schedule databases show aircraft changes across the season, a sign the airline is matching plane size and frequency to demand. (united.com) (flightconnections.com) The strategy fits how U.S. airlines have been treating Europe since the post-pandemic travel rebound: add leisure-heavy cities in peak months, then trim or swap aircraft when bookings soften. United said all six Atlantic destinations it added in summer 2025 are also returning in 2026. (united.com) For travelers, the practical change is simple: more one-stop itineraries disappear from the schedule. For United, the bet is that secondary European cities can fill enough premium and leisure seats to keep Newark growing as its biggest Atlantic gateway. (united.com)
