United Airlines to fly largest flight schedule since before the pandemic

United Airlines is preparing to fly its largest flight schedule since before the pandemic started to accommodate the nation's growing demand for summer travel, the airline announced Friday. In June, United will restart 16 flight routes, add more than 480 daily U.S flights and add nine completely new routes to more than 240 total destinations.

"June is historically the beginning of the peak summer travel season," vice president of domestic planning and scheduling at United Ankit Gupta said in the statement. "Ramping up to over 3,500 total daily flights across the system this June underscores the continued demand for leisure travel and our responsiveness to meeting that demand."  This summer in comparison to its 2019 schedule, United will fly 67% of its domestic schedule and 60% of its overall network schedule.