United Airlines will operate additional flights to Shanghai and Chengdu, China, from the airline's premier trans-Pacific gateway hub in San Francisco during the peak summer travel season.
The current daily service between San Francisco and Shanghai will increase to two flights daily from May 6 to Oct. 24, 2015, and the three-times-weekly service between San Francisco and Chengdu will increase to daily service from June 4 to Sept. 1, 2015, both routes subject to government approval.
Second-daily Flight to Shanghai
Flight 891 will depart from San Francisco International Airport at 2:40 p.m. and arrive at Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 7:00 p.m. the following day (all times local). On the return, flight 890 will depart from Shanghai at 9:00 p.m. and arrive in San Francisco at 5:40 p.m. on the same day. Flight times will be approximately 13 hours, 20 minutes westbound and 11 hours, 40 minutes eastbound.
United will operate the flights with Boeing 777-200 aircraft featuring a total of 269 seats – eight flat-bed seats in United Global First, 40 flat-bed seats in United BusinessFirst and 221 seats in United Economy, including 104 Economy Plus extra-legroom seats.
The new summer-season service will operate in addition to United's current daily year-round flights between San Francisco and Shanghai.
Daily Flights to Chengdu
Flight 9 will depart San Francisco daily at 1:20 p.m. and will arrive at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport at 6:40 p.m. the following day (all times local). On the return, flight 8 will depart Chengdu daily at 9:50 a.m. and arrive in San Francisco at 8:30 a.m. the same day. Flying times are approximately 14 hours, 20 minutes westbound and 13 hours, 40 minutes eastbound.
United will operate the San Francisco - Chengdu flights with Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, featuring a total of 219 seats – 36 in United BusinessFirst and 183 in United Economy, including 70 Economy Plus extra-legroom seats.
Earlier this year, United launched the Chengdu service with three-times-weekly Boeing 787 flights from San Francisco, the first-ever nonstop trans-Pacific service to mainland China beyond Beijing and Shanghai. The Chengdu flights will return to three-times-weekly operations on Sept. 2, 2015.
United has timed both the Shanghai and the Chengdu flights to connect conveniently at San Francisco with an extensive network of service throughout the U.S., Canada and Latin America.
United started nonstop service to China in 1986 and today serves Beijing with nonstop flights from Chicago, New York/Newark, San Francisco and Washington/Dulles; Shanghai with nonstop flights from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York/Newark and San Francisco; and Hong Kong with nonstop flights from Chicago, New York/Newark, San Francisco, Guam, Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City.
