United adding 20% more flying at San Francisco hub

United Airlines is ramping up flights out of global hub San Francisco International Airport this year, adding 20% more flying.

United flies to 111 cities around the world from San Francisco and will offer approximately 300 daily flights this summer.

This is the most since 2019 and more than any other airline in the Bay Area.

The airline has added 11 new international destinations and nine new domestic destinations from SFO in the last four years.

This includes reinstating service to New Orleans, Kansas City, Detroit, and St. Louis, as well as new flights to San Jose, Costa Rica and Panama starting this next month.

“We’re winning more and more Bay Area customers because of our investments in the product, the experience and the places we fly,” said United CEO Scott Kirby.

“Our growth in SFO is a direct result of United’s ambitious network strategy, which has set us apart from the competition.”

A $2.6 billion airport construction project is underway, part of which is to modernize and expand Terminal 3 at SFO.

This will pave the way for even more United growth in the future.

United has more than 13,000 local team members based in the Bay Area and plans to add 1,200 more in 2025.

United’s hub has seen the addition of more direct flights to Asia, Europe, and Latin America in the last several years.

SFO is United’s fastest growing hub to Latin America, with new routes to Belize and Monterrey, Mexico added in 2024, and new flights to San Jose, Costa Rica and Panama City starting next month.

The new routes bring United to nine destinations in Latin America served from SFO.

In addition to the new routes, United is adding more flights to existing destinations this summer, including additional daily flights to Cancun, Los Cabos, and Puerto Vallarta.

United serves Europe from SFO with a peak schedule of 11 daily flights to eight destinations.

Seasonal service to Barcelona launched last year and returns for an extended season this summer, building upon new service to Rome and a seasonal third daily flight to London Heathrow added in 2022.

United’s SFO hub flies to 17 different destinations in the Asia-Pacific region.

This winter the airline is launching new one-stop connections between San Francisco and Bangkok, Thailand and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam via Hong Kong.

In addition, starting in December, United will add new seasonal-service between Adelaide, Australia and San Francisco, along with a second daily, year-round flight between San Francisco and Manila.

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