United Airlines To Resume Daily Flights Between Bengaluru and San Francisco

Major American airlines, the United Airlines, has announced the resumption of daily flight service between Bengaluru and San Francisco. The airline will start flying passengers between this route from 26th May 2022 on wards.

It is only the United Airlines, that operates direct flights between the Bengaluru and San Francisco route which is the first-ever nonstop service of the United Airlines between Bengaluru and the US.

With the easing of travel restrictions after the first wave of Covid-19 the Airline had been supposed to resume Bengaluru and San Francisco service in spring 2021. However, as India being hit by the second wave of Covid-19, and the subsequent travel restrictions imposed by the U.S on Indian travelers, the airline bound to postpone the service.

United Airlines is currently operating services between New Delhi and Newark, Chicago, and San Francisco, as well as Mumbai and Newark.

United Airlines will deploy its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft on the Bengaluru-San Francisco route, the aircraft has a total of 257 seats — 48 flat-bed seats in business class, 21 seats in premium-plus class, and 188 seats in economy class.

United Airlines said it offers more flights between India and the US than any other US carrier.