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United Airlines announced several weeks ago that it would return to New York’s JFK Airport after suspending operations in October 2015. The United Airlines will be resuming flights out of New York JFK as of February 1, 2021. The airline is looking to serve both Los Angeles (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO). These are the exact same mainline routes the airline operated when it pulled out of the airport. United Airlines will initially operate 2 daily roundtrip flights on each of the routes. One flight in the morning in each direction and one in the evening in each direction without red-eyes. These flights are already bookable and interestingly United hasn’t reduced its schedule out of EWR to LAX and SFO.

The United Airlines will operate the following New York to Los Angeles frequencies: UA515 New York to Los Angeles departing 9:00 AM arriving 12:29 PM, UA517 New York to Los Angeles departing 7:00 PM arriving 10:29 PM, UA514 Los Angeles to New York departing 7:30 AM arriving 3:50 PM, UA516 Los Angeles to New York departing 2:30 PM arriving 10:50 PM. The Airline will operate the following New York to San Francisco frequencies: UA521 New York to San Francisco departing 8:00 AM arriving 11:37 AM, UA523 New York to San Francisco departing 5:10 PM arriving 8:47 PM, UA520 San Francisco to New York departing 9:10 AM arriving 5:40 PM, UA522 San Francisco to New York departing 1:30 PM arriving 10:00 PM.

United Airlines will exclusively be using its premium Boeing 767-300s for JFK flights. These planes are in a premium heavy configuration, with just 167 seats, as follows: 46 Polaris business class seats, 22 Premium Plus premium economy seats, 47 Economy Plus extra-legroom economy seats, and 52 economy class seats. United Airlines will operate out of JFK’s Terminal 7, which was the same terminal it used to fly out of back in the day. Moreover, the old United Club in the terminal has since been converted into an Alaska Lounge. The only other lounge in the terminal is the British Airways Lounge. It is important that Alaska competes with United in the market and British Airways has a joint venture with American.