There’s excellent news for these hoping to spend their summer season basking on white-sand seashores, visiting sun-bleached ruins, noshing on tangy tzatziki, and sipping Greek vintages: Journey to Greece simply received a bit simpler.
United Airways just lately introduced plans to function seasonal nonstop flights between Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport and Athens Worldwide Airport, beginning Could 28 and operating via August 18, 2024.
The each day flights will depart Chicago at 4:35 p.m. (native time) and arrive in Athens 10 hours and quarter-hour later at 10:50 a.m. the next day (native time). On the return, the jets will depart Athens at 12:45 p.m. (native time) and arrive 11 hours and 40 minutes later in Chicago at 4:25 p.m. (native time). As of press time, the most affordable round-trip economic system tickets obtainable on United.com for the Chicago-Athens flight had been $1,839, whereas enterprise class seats had been supplied at $9,469 round-trip.
Flights will happen on the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which options 28 Polaris enterprise class lie-flat pods (a favourite of AFAR staffers), 21 Premium Plus recliners, 36 Financial system Plus seats, and 158 customary economic system seats.
“We’re thrilled so as to add one other thrilling vacation spot for patrons flying out of Chicago O’Hare to discover with our new summer season service to Athens,” Patrick Quayle, United’s senior vice chairman of world community planning and alliances, acknowledged in a press launch.
Along with launching the Chicago flights, United this summer season will resume seasonal service connecting Athens to Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport (beginning April 14 and ending December 3) and to New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport (starting March 30 and wrapping up October 25). In whole, the airline will improve its flights between the US and Athens by 25 % from final 12 months. American Airways is the one different service working a Chicago to Athens route.
Past Athens, United will keep nonstop service from Chicago to 14 different European cities, together with Amsterdam; Brussels; Edinburgh; Frankfurt and Munich, Germany; Milan; Reykjavik, Iceland; Shannon, Eire; and Zurich. No different U.S. service operates as many worldwide routes from the Windy Metropolis.
United so as to add greater than 100 North America flights
Nearer to dwelling, United introduced it will add greater than 100 new flights throughout the U.S. and Canada this summer season. Most of the flights are extra departures to locations that United already serves (and which might be favorites of those that love the good outside), corresponding to:
- Chicago to Aspen, Colorado; Bozeman, Montana; and Montreal and Toronto
- Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, Phoenix, and San Antonio
- Denver to Bozeman and Kalispell, Montana; Solar Valley, Idaho; and Vail, Colorado
- Houston to Boston, Charleston, Miami, and Tampa
Bozeman, Montana, is a well-liked gateway hub for Yellowstone Nationwide Park, and the airport in Kalispell, Montana, is usually used for these trying to entry Glacier Nationwide Park. And, in fact, Aspen and Vail in Colorado and Solar Valley in Idaho are all world-class mountain resort locations.
“We all know individuals wish to get outside this summer season,” Quayle stated of the additions. “From including nonstop service to locations beforehand solely reachable via a number of connections to leveraging {our relationships} with airline companions like Air Canada, we’re giving prospects numerous choices to unlock new experiences.”
Moreover, the service shared that it will add or resume (for the primary time post-pandemic) eight routes to and from Canada and Alaska, together with:
- Chicago O’Hare to Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada; nonstop service resumes Could 2024
- Chicago O’Hare to Québec Metropolis, Canada; nonstop service resumes Could 2024
- Denver to Winnipeg; nonstop year-round service resumes Could 23
- Denver to Fairbanks, Alaska; nonstop each day seasonal service begins Could 23
- Houston Intercontinental to Ontario, Canada; nonstop service resumes Could 2024
- Newark Liberty to Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada; seasonal nonstop service resumes Could 23
- Washington Dulles to Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada; nonstop each day seasonal service begins Could 23
- Washington Dulles to Anchorage, Alaska; nonstop each day seasonal service begins Could 23