Summary
- United Airlines is the fifth-largest operator between the US and South America by non-stop capacity.
- It has 13 routes, which include Houston to Georgetown, which takes off in April.
- Only two routes have been cut in the past decade.
United Airlines is not a massive operator from the US to South America. Schedule analysis using Cirium information shows it is only the fifth-largest carrier by seats for sale in the first half of 2024 (January-June), smaller than American, LATAM, avianca, and Delta. It has fallen from third place in 2019 as others have grown much faster. United’s geographic dominance is, of course, to Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Middle East.
United to South America
The Star Alliance member has 511,000 departing seats to South America in 1H 2024 (double for both ways), unchanged versus 1H 2019. Capacity has risen by just 10% in the past decade, although twice as…