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United Airlines Adds Nearly 25,000 Flights in August
Airline triples the schedule size compared to June 2020 - but still scheduled to only fly 40% of August 2019 levels; United extends change fee waiver for new
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[{"type":"text","content":"Airline triples the schedule size compared to June 2020 - but still scheduled to only fly 40% of August 2019 levels; United extends change fee waiver for new bookings through July 31\n\n\nCHICAGO, July 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- United Airlines today announced it is tripling the size of its August schedule compared to its June 2020 schedule, adding nearly 25,000 domestic and international flights compared to July 2020, and plans to fly 40% of its overall schedule in August, as compared to August 2019. While travel demand remains a fraction of what it was at the end of 2019, customers are slowly returning to flying with a preference for leisure destinations, trips to reunite with friends and family, and getaways to places that encourage social distancing. According to TSA, more than 600,000 passengers passed through airport security checkpoints on Monday, June 29, the first time since March 19 that those numbers exceeded 25% of pre-COVID levels.\nUnited has overhauled its cleaning and safety procedures under United CleanPlus and is giving customers more flexibility when booking by extending its waiver of change fees and award redeposit fees for reservations through July 31. \nUnited plans to add more than 350 daily flights from its U.S. hubs in August, including doubling the number of flights from New York/Newark compared to July. This increase includes more flights to mountain and national park destinations like Aspen, Colorado; Bangor, Maine; Bozeman, Montana; and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Internationally, United's August schedule will include a return to Tahiti and additional flights to Hawaii, the Caribbean and Mexico. Across the Atlantic, United will add more flights and options to Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Munich, Paris and Zurich.\n\"We're taking the same data-driven, realistic approach to growing our schedule as we did in drawing it down at the start of the pandemic,\" said Ankit Gupta, United's vice president of Domestic Network Planning. \"Demand is coming back slowly and we're building in enough capacity to stay ahead of the number of people traveling. And we're adding in flights to places we know customers want to travel to, like outdoor recreation destinations where social distancing is easier but doing so in a way that's flexible and allows us to adjust should that demand change.\"\nU.S. Domestic \nDomestically, United...