United Airlines Adds 20 Percent More Flying at San Francisco for 2025
- Joe Breitfeller
- Apr 3
- 3 min read
United Airlines has today announced a 20 percent expansion of their San Francisco flying for 2025. This summer, the carrier will offer nearly 300 daily flights from SFO to 111 destinations, the most since 2019, and more than any other airline in the Bay Area.
On Thursday (April 3, 2025), United Airlines announced a major expansion of their San Francisco (SFO) network with an additional 20 percent flying for 2025. This summer, the carrier will operate nearly 300 daily departures from SFO to 111 destinations, the most since the pre-pandemic period in 2019. The network expansion includes new and only flights on a U.S. carrier to Bangkok, Thailand, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Adelaide, Australia, and a second daily flight to Manila, Philippines to start later this year. Over the last four years, United has added 11 new international and nine new domestic destinations from SFO, including reinstated service to New Orleans, Kansas City, Detroit, and St. Louis, as well as new flights to San Jose, Costa Rica and Panama City, Panama starting this next month.
Currently, a $2.6 billion construction project is underway, part of which is the modernization and expansion of Terminal 3 at SFO, paving the way for United’s future growth. United is also one of the Bay Area’s largest employers, with over 13,000 local team members. In 2024 alone, United hired more than 1,600 airport operations, and plans to add 1,200 more this year.
In Thursday’s announcement, United Airlines’ CEO, Scott Kirby, said,
“We’re winning more and more Bay Area customers because of our investments in the product, the experience and the places we fly. Our growth in SFO is a direct result of United’s ambitious network strategy, which has set us apart from the competition and cemented our status as the world's largest airline.”
Also commenting on United’s expansion, San Francisco International Airport’s Director, Mike Nakornhet, added,
“For nearly a century, United Airlines has been offering travelers the most flights and destinations out of San Francisco. We are excited to launch the Terminal 3 West Modernization, which will set a new benchmark for what United customers can look forward to at SFO. Our goal is to create an extraordinary airport experience for our guests, and we expect this project will continue to reflect the innovation, sustainability, and diversity that make San Francisco such an amazing place.”
San Francisco is United’s fastest growing hub to Latin America, with new routes to Belize and Monterrey, Mexico added last year, and new flights to San Jose, Costa Rica and Panama City starting May 2025. In addition to the new routes, United is also adding frequencies to existing destinations this summer, including additional daily flights to Cancun, Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta. United is the only U.S, carrier serving Europe from SFO, with a peak schedule of 11 daily flights to 11 European destinations. Launched in 2024, the carrier’s seasonal service to Barcelona has been extended for the summer season, building on new service to Rome, and a third daily flight to London Heathrow, which was added in 2022.
For over 40 years, San Francisco has also been United’s gateway across the Pacific, and the carrier now served 17 different destinations in the Asia-Pacific region. As previously announced, this winter, United is launching new one-stop connections to Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City via Hong Kong. The carrier is also adding new seasonal service between Adelaide, Australia and San Francisco, as well as a second daily year-round flight between SFO and Manila. United also offer three time more flights from SFO to Hawaii than their closest competitor, and is the only airline with daily year-round flights from SFO to four Hawaiian islands.
At United Airlines, ‘Good Leads the Way.’ The airline operates the most comprehensive network among North American carriers with U.S. hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. United and United Express operate over 4,000 flights per day to more than 350 airports across six continents. In 2024, United carried nearly 174 million customers, a company record. Shares in United's parent company, United Airlines Holdings, Inc., are publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol ‘UAL.’
Source: United Airlines
