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United Airlines Continues Network Expansion with New Florida Service
CHICAGO, April 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- United Airlines today announced more flights and more opportunities for customers to connect between Washington, D.C.,
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[{"type":"text","content":"CHICAGO, April 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- United Airlines today announced more flights and more opportunities for customers to connect between Washington, D.C., and Florida. Beginning October 29, United will begin new twice-daily, year-round service between Washington Dulles and Fort Myers and Sarasota in Florida. Additionally, United will begin operating extended seasonal winter service between Miami and Washington Dulles starting two months earlier than originally planned in October 2019. \nUnited's new service to Fort Myers and Sarasota complements the airline's growing Florida network of more than 50 routes served from Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.\n\"These new routes offer our customers many more opportunities to conveniently travel year-round between Florida and our Washington hub,\" said Ankit Gupta, United's vice president of Domestic Network Planning. \"Our schedule offers customers from Fort Myers and Sarasota easy connections to more than 130 flights across the United States and 11 European destinations with just one stop.\" \nUnited in Florida\nIn addition to its new service between Washington Dulles and Fort Myers and Sarasota, United operates more than 140 daily flights to 12 Florida cities. Effective October 27, United will offer the following service from its U.S. hubs to Florida.\nEvery customer. Every flight. Every day.\nIn 2019, United is focusing more than ever on its commitment to its customers, looking at every aspect of its business to ensure that the carrier keeps customers' best interests at the heart of its service. In addition to today's announcement, United recently announced that luxury skincare line Sunday Riley will make products exclusively for United customers to experience in amenity kits, released a re-imagined version of the most downloaded app in the airline industry and made DIRECTV free for every passenger on 211 aircraft, offering more than 100 channels on seat back monitors on more than 30,000 seats. \nAbout United\nUnited's shared purpose is \"Connecting People. Uniting the World.\" We are more focused than ever on our commitment to customers through a series of innovations and improvements designed to help build a great experience: Every customer. Every flight. Every day. Together, United Airlines and United Express o...