United Airlines has confirmed that it will
resume daily nonstop flights from Hong Kong (HKG) to San Francisco
(SFO) on 6 March 2023, the first United passenger flight service
to and from HKG since the global COVID19 pandemic began in 2020.
The first westbound flight from SFO to HKG will
depart on 3 March 2023.
Flight UA862 us scheduled to leave HKG at 12:20 daily, arriving
at SFO at 08:45 the same day. The return
flight, UA877, is timed to depart SFO at 22:40 daily, arriving at HKG at
06:00 two days later.
United will operate the flights with
Boeing 777-300ER aircraft offering 60 seats in United Polaris
business class cabin, 24 seats in the United Premium Plus cabin and 266
seats in the United Economy cabin.
“We’re thrilled
to be able to return to Hong Kong after nearly three years
enabling us to provide our Hong Kong customers with our convenient
daily nonstop service to San Francisco again,” said Walter Dias,
United’s Regional Director of Sales for Greater China, Korea and
Southeast Asia. “Our early-morning
San Francisco arrival time and late-evening San Francisco
departure time will offer more than 70 one-stop destinations in
the mainland U.S., Canada and Latin America via our hub in San
Francisco. We have nearly 40 years of long history in the Hong
Kong market and our commitment to the market remains unchanged.”
San Francisco is United’s largest hub airport on
the U.S. West Coast and a gateway to Asia-Pacific.
The airline operates
more than 200 daily departures from San Francisco International
Airport, taking passengers to more than 100 destinations around the
globe, including the most international service with flights to 26
different international cities.
The hub currently offers direct
flights to more than 10 Asia-Pacific destinations including
Auckland, Brisbane, Haneda/Tokyo, Incheon/Seoul,
Melbourne, Narita/Tokyo, Papeete/Tahiti, Singapore, Shanghai,
Sydney and Taipei.
