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Home » United Airlines » United Adds Flights Between Opulent Orange County And Affluent Aspen
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United Adds Flights Between Opulent Orange County And Affluent Aspen

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 31, 2021November 14, 2023 13 Comments

a plane on a runway in the snow

Rich people like to ski in the winter or escape the cold to the beautiful California sun. In a match made in heaven, United Airlines is adding flights this winter between Orange County, CA and Aspen, its latest point-to-point route.

United Airlines Adds Orange County – Aspen Service

The new daily service will launch on December 16th and run through March 26, 2022. SkyWest will operate the service on behalf of United under the United Express banner and utilize a Bombardier CRJ-700 for the service, featuring:

  • 6 first class seats
  • 64 economy class seats (including 16 extra-legroom “Economy Plus” seats)

The flight will operate according to the following schedule:

  • UA5450 Depart Santa Ana (SNA) 4:00pm, Arrive Aspen (ASE) 7:08pm
  • UA5707 Depart Aspen (ASE) 2:00pm, Arrive Santa Ana (SNA) 3:24pm

Fares start at about $259 one-way for economy class or $459 for first class. Mileage space, including “saver” space, is currently available on many dates.

Aspen joins Honolulu as the second of United’s so-called “point-to-point” flights from Orange County / Santa Ana. While network carriers usually operate flights via a hub and spoke model, United has improvised and experimented during the pandemic as it sought to meet demand where it was, which was not always via its seven hubs in the continental USA.

Orange County – Aspen will not be the only ski destinations United serves this winter from Southern California. The carrier will also offer nonstop service from Los Angeles (LAX) to:

  • Aspen
  • Eagle, Colorado (Vail)
  • Hayden, Colorado (Steamboat)
  • Montrose, Colorado (Telluride)
  • Bishop, California (Mammoth)
  • Sun Valley, Idaho
  • Bozeman, Montana (Big Sky, Bridger Bowl)
  • Jackson Hole, Wyoming

CONCLUSION

If you detected a bit of facetiousness in the opening paragraph, it is only because many of our dear Award Expert clients from from both Orange County and Aspen are very wealthy and very high-maintainence. Just an observation…but I had to chuckle at the new route because I do believe it will be a hit.

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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13 Comments

  1. NDG Reply
    August 31, 2021 at 10:26 am

    Shocked they aren’t using a CRJ-550 for this….

  2. B Reply
    August 31, 2021 at 10:35 am

    wouldn’t it make sense to deploy one of those 50-seat premium config regional jets on this route then? with business travel not recovering yet seems like the obvious move.

  3. SMR Reply
    August 31, 2021 at 10:47 am

    CRJ-550 is only operated by GoJet… the logistics would be bad since their bases are STL, ORD and EWR.

  4. albert Reply
    August 31, 2021 at 11:35 am

    Gojet 550’s are not rated for ASE. Very specific training goes into flying to Aspen.

  5. Batchcaloupe Reply
    August 31, 2021 at 12:15 pm

    United should be on some soy milk for little Muffy and Beauregard on this route!! Better install that latte machine while you are at it!!

  6. UA-NYC Reply
    August 31, 2021 at 12:41 pm

    Over under 50% cancelation rate into ASE?

  7. Mike C Reply
    August 31, 2021 at 2:08 pm

    My suggestion is stick to the facts and leave adjectives such as opulent and affluent out of your stories. I can assure you the average flyer out of SNA is not “opulent”. The reasons why fares are inflated at SNA is the very tight flight capacity restrictions out of SNA along with nose abatement. and the very short, dangerous runway. We have the same challenges and complexities that all other California airports face today. We have people being kicked out of their apartments and people on food stamps etc and scores of other social problems. We now have airlines such as Spirit, Sun Country, Allegiant and Frontier that appeal to mainstream flyers. And we of course have your favorite legacy airline that you have biased reporting all the time.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      August 31, 2021 at 2:10 pm

      Just a little fun. I live here too. I’ve seen the disparities in places like Santa Ana.

  8. Gravelly Point Guy Reply
    August 31, 2021 at 2:24 pm

    Ahh the 1%!!

  9. Dani Reply
    August 31, 2021 at 3:34 pm

    Yikes, $250 one way. These fares will go down dramatically once United realizes people aren’t gonna pay that fares, and not everyone in Aspen is a billionaire.

  10. dee Reply
    August 31, 2021 at 4:30 pm

    Right now it is over $1100.00 in economy from Denver-aspen-denver for the next 10 days as it is aspen food and wine.. It is 132,000 miles for this $1100 route nuts.
    If you want SFO-ASE-SFO it is $1800 on United for Economy….

  11. Andy K Reply
    September 1, 2021 at 12:59 am

    But only 6 first class seats? A lot of the rich folks will need to sit with the cattle.

    Interesting flight times – I would have thought the outbound from SNA would be in the morning so that you could be on the slopes by noon.

  12. Richard Reply
    September 1, 2021 at 8:46 am

    On the east coast, we have JetBlue with summer service to ACK and MV. So the rich liberals back east are not left out! It used to be nice in Nantucket, now it’s overrun with hyper monied bassholes.

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