United Airlines will add 20 special nonstop flights for the upcoming college football season and also upgrade over 100 flights to larger aircraft to coincide with key games.
United Airlines Will Upgugage Aircraft, Fly Special Nonstop Flights For Key College Football Matchups
To accommodate high demand for games like the University of Texas – Austin playing the University of Michigan on September 7, 2024, Ohio State playing at Oregon on October 12th, or Alabama facing off at LSU on November 9th, United will add 20 special nonstop flights. Let’s take a look at them.
September Games
For all games, flights are for travel to games on Friday and return Sunday, except for the BTR-LAS flight departing Saturday, August 31st returning Monday, September 2nd.
October Games
For all games, flights are for travel to games on Friday and return Sunday.
November Games
For all games, flights are for travel to games on Friday and return Sunday.
Patrick Quayle, United’s Senior Vice President of Global Network Planning and Alliances, explained:
“Connecting travelers to the moments that matter most to them is at the core of what we do at United. We know fans will appreciate this year’s special football schedule that will make it easier to cheer on their teams on the road.”
Furthermore, United will upguage aircraft on 115 flights to accommodate expected extra demand for sporting games (no list was provided).
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Wonder if the crew/aircraft will layover @ these destinations or just fly in/out for each sector. Idle crews/aircraft would seem wasteful
Why is UA flying a flight from EWR for a Florida State Game? Wouldn’t TLH-SBN be more appropriate?
I think all of the flights go between cities that United already regularly serves, it’s just the non-stop pairing between the cities that is unique for the game weekend.
United doesn’t serve TLH, so not an option.
United only serves SBN from Chicago normally, so adding a EWR route makes the trip a bit more convenient for east coast fans of either team.
American has also added services to SBN from cities like BOS and PHL for that weekend too
The list shows LAX-DTW on 9/20 but I can’t get that flight to pull up (and I’ve been searching since june!)… Is there a schedule look up to see if that actually exists or if they changed their mind on offering it since AA has one too…
That one surprised me. It’s a hub-to-hub for Delta, and sometimes even has A350s with Delta One suites. I don’t foresee UA competing with that route.
Maybe the key factors will be timing and premium cabin, if they offer the flight.
It seems like there is a lot of capacity nonstop between those two cities on that date.
I’m (ashamedly) a big college football fan. I have been a booster of three programs, currently down to two. I can’t imagine planning out my travel to a desirable game less than a month from kickoff. The only way to do CFB trips well is to plan way in advance. There is just so much that gets planned out far in advance, waiting until 3 weeks out on the airfare seems stupid to me.
You obviously missed Delta announcing their new flights for college football a month ago!
Actually Delta announced 60 new non-stop flights for College football on May 17.
The map doesn’t match any of the routes!
Also… Charlottesville is not DCA…
Had UA become the official airline for ND?
So Miami(OH) fans (if there are any?) are going to drive an hour south to CVG (which is literally in another state), then park, go through security, wait for a flight and fly an hour or so to South Bend rather than just driving (less than 4 hours)
I mean I know you don’t make the schedules but man that seems dumb
How about the Northern Illinois vs Notre Dame game flying out of EWR. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Which flight planner approved that. It only takes 2 hours to South Bend from DeKalb, Illinois
I don’t think the EWR-SBN flight is designed for NIU area fans, who can drive or fly ORD-SBN on UA. UA flies 6 CRJs on that date ORD-SBN, their normal flight schedule. They added the route so east coaster or NYers could fly from/through EWR rather than adding to the existing ORD traffic, I suspect.
That’s a hilarious one. Lets try a race. What are the odds the one who drives the 216 miles from Oxford to South Bend beats the one who flies (timing from departure from home until arrive at hotel)? Vegas refuses the line on such long dhots.
xna-dfw… it’s almost like another airline flies that one…
ATL is currently the highest capacity route out of AUS. UA must really have a bunch of spare planes if they’re going to throw one at it for a football game.