United Will Operate Only 45 Daily International Flights In April 2020 - Live and Let's Fly

United Airlines will dramatically reduce its international service in April 2020, operating only about 45 daily flights and 36 routes.

United Arlines International Schedule For April 2020

United will reduce international flights in April by 85% over 2019 levels. Here's a look at what flights will remain.

United Airlines Transatlantic Flights for April 2020

United will use Newark as its Atlantic gateway, maintaining daily service to three key European cities as well as to India and Tel Aviv. United will also keep one daily service to London from Washington Dulles. All transatlantic service from Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Denver, and Los Angeles will cease.

Atlantic
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• Newark (EWR) -> to
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  • Brussels (BRU) - Daily
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  • Frankfurt (FRA) - Daily
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  • London (LHR) - Daily
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  • Mumbai (BOM) - Daily
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  • New Delhi (DEL) - Daily
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  • Tel Aviv (TLV) - Daily
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• Washington (IAD) -> to

United Airlines Transpacific Flights for April 2020

United will keep four weekly flights between Newark and Tokyo, but otherwise funnel all transpacific traffic through its San Francisco hub. That will include service to Japan, Singapore, and Australia.

Pacific
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• Newark (EWR) -> to
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• San Francisco (SFO) -> to
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  • Melbourne (MEL) - 3x weekly
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  • Osaka (KIX) - 5x weekly
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  • Singapore (SIN) - daily
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  • Sydney (SYD) - daily
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  • Tokyo (HND) - daily
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  • Tokyo (NRT) - daily

United Airlines Mexico Flights for April 2020

United will maintain service to eight Mexican destination from its primary Latin America hub in Houston. San Francisco will still serve three cities and Los Angeles, Chicago, and Newark will still serve Cancun.

Mexico
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• Houston (IAH) -> to
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  • Cancun (CUN) - daily
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  • Guadalajara (GDL) - daily
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  • Guanajuato (BJX) - daily
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  • San Jose del Cabo (SJD) - daily
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  • Mazatlán (MZT) - Saturdays
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  • Mexico (MEX) - daily
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  • Monterrey (MTY) - daily
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  • Puerto Vallarta (PVR) - daily
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• Los Angeles (LAX) -> to
  San Jose del Cabo (SJD) - daily
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• San Francisco (SFO) -> to
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  • Cancun (CUN) - daily
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  • San Jose del Cabo (SJD) - daily
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  • Puerto Vallarta (PVR) - daily
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• Chicago (ORD) -> to
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• Newark (EWR) -> to

United Airlines Caribbean Flights for April 2020

All Caribbean flights, including to the U.S. territories Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, will operate from Newark.

Caribbean
Newark (EWR) -> to
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• Antigua (ANU) - Saturdays
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• Nassau (NAS) - daily
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• Turks and Caicos (PLS) - daily
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• Punta Cana (PUJ) - daily
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• Santo Domingo (SDQ) - daily
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• San Juan (SJU) - daily [I know, this is technically a U.S. domestic flight]
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• Saint Lucia (UVF) - Saturdays
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• Saint Thomas (STT) - daily [I know, this is technically a U.S. domestic flight]

United Airlines Central + South American Flights for April 2020

United will suspend service to most of Latin America south of Mexico, leaving only Belize City and Sao Paulo in April.

Canada?

United is maintaining service to Canada, but does not classify it as an "international" destination, at least n terms of this announcement.

CONCLUSION

This schedule marks an unprecedented drawdown of international service from United. Even with these significant cutbacks, United is still predicting low load factors and dismal performance. I don't count 45 flights from the list above, but that is the number United specified: it may be that a few of the flights above will operate more than daily. It's rather sobering that Chicago and Los Angeles will end up with only one international flight each next month...