Whereas United Airways already introduced a formidable growth for the summer season of 2025, the Chicago-based Star Alliance service has simply added yet one more lengthy haul route.
United’s new seasonal Denver to Rome route
For the summer season of 2025, United will function a every day seasonal flight between Denver (DEN) and Rome (FCO). The flight might be accessible for almost 5 months, between Might 1 and September 24, 2025. It can function with the next schedule:
UA177 Denver to Rome departing 5:50PM arriving 12:20PM (+1 day)
UA178 Rome to Denver departing 2:20PM arriving 5:45PM
The 5,576-mile flight is blocked at 10hr30min eastbound and 11hr25min westbound. United will use a Boeing 787-9 for the route. These planes have 257 seats, together with 48 enterprise class seats, 21 premium economic system seats, and 188 economic system seats.
The brand new route is already on sale, although as you’d anticipate, there aren’t many premium award offers available.
How this matches into United’s route community
Whereas Denver is an enormous home hub for United, it’s not an enormous lengthy haul hub for the airline. At present United’s solely lengthy haul routes from Denver are to Frankfurt (FRA), London (LHR), Munich (MUC), and Tokyo (NRT), and so they’re all operated on a year-round foundation.
It’s logical sufficient that if United goes so as to add a seasonal transatlantic flight from Denver, it could be to Rome. Italy, Spain, and Greece, are the three hottest transatlantic summer season locations these days, and Rome usually takes the highest spot.
Along with this new service, United flies to Rome year-round from Newark (EWR) and Washington (IAD), and seasonally from Chicago (ORD) and San Francisco (SFO). Maybe the one shock right here is that United doesn’t serve Rome out of Houston (IAH), however for the needs of connecting site visitors, that will also be captured by way of most different hubs.
I’m curious what’s enabling this new route addition. Presumably United has some spare plane it wasn’t in any other case anticipating to have. I’m guessing United isn’t relying on taking supply of recent Boeing huge physique jets sooner than deliberate, as a result of Boeing’s gonna Boeing. So presumably this addition is made attainable by a minimize someplace else. Perhaps United has come to phrases with some service cuts to China and/or Israel for subsequent summer season?
The one draw back to lengthy haul growth out of Denver is that there’s no United Polaris Lounge on the airport, so the bottom expertise isn’t pretty much as good as you’d get at different hubs.
Backside line
For the summer season of 2025, United will function a every day flight between Denver and Rome utilizing a Boeing 787. Denver doesn’t see a lot lengthy haul service from United, so it’s at all times enjoyable to see extra service added. I’m certain this may show a handy (however dear) possibility for a lot of trying to journey between the 2 airports.
What do you make of United’s new Denver to Rome route?
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