New United flights between Faro and New York scheduled for the summer have been cancelled

In October last year, United Airlines announced a series of new international flights for this summer, including the first direct flights between New York and Faro, with four weekly flights operated by Boeing 757 aircraft, scheduled to take place between May 24 and May 23. this year. United have now announced that the 2024 move to Faro has been cancelled.

“In total, this operation will represent about 25,000 round-trip seats spread across 130 flights – and that is a drop in the ocean of flights and seats departing from Faro… but a drop whose cancellation would represent a huge bucket of cold water for All This Way and That.”
“It brought the company to the region,” described Pedro Castro, director of SkyExpert.

In turn, United Airlines stated that it remains interested in operating this route in the summer of 2025. Since no concrete justification was provided, Pedro Castro puts forward a hypothesis: “If there is a need to cut any flights operated by Boeing 757 aircraft due to the crisis with the 737 MAX and deliver these aircraft that It has already affected Ryanair: United, for example, could have chosen to cancel the second daily flight between New York and Porto; however, as we see, it preferred to cancel this new destination. This is consistent with
Typical behavior of companies: in case of doubt, they prefer to enhance what already exists rather than open new destinations that require duplication of resources and investment.

With 277 aircraft on order, United Airlines is the company that will launch the Boeing 737 MAX 10, an aircraft whose certification and delivery schedule has been affected by the MAX 9 issuance crisis. “These are the aircraft that will replace the Boeing 757 in the future, but perhaps that future will have to To wait a little longer,” Pedro Castro predicted.

“American tourists have achieved remarkable development in the Algarve region, but without direct, non-stop air access, their growth becomes more difficult. An American airline would be better because of its market dominance and sales in the United States.