United will add 20 percent more flying out of San Francisco (SFO) in 2025. United is now larger in SFO than it was pre-pandemic, with capacity1 up 6 percent since 2019, and 20 percent versus last year.
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United flies to 111 cities around the world from San Francisco and will offer approximately 300 daily flights this summer – the most since 2019 and more than any other airline in the Bay Area.
The airline has added 11 new international destinations and 9 new domestic destinations from SFO in the last four years, including reinstated service to New Orleans, Kansas City, Detroit, and St. Louis, as well as new flights to San Jose, Costa Rica and Panama City, Panama starting this next month.
United’s hub in San Francisco is the leading global gateway from the West Coast, with the airline adding more direct flights to Asia, Europe, and Latin America in the last several years.
SFO is United’s fastest growing hub to Latin America, with new routes to Belize and Monterrey, Mexico added in 2024, and new flights to San Jose, Costa Rica and Panama City starting in May. The new routes bring United to nine destinations in Latin America served from SFO, the most of any carrier. In addition to the new routes, United is adding more flights to existing destinations this summer, including additional daily flights to Cancun, Los Cabos, and Puerto Vallarta.
United is the only U.S. airline to serve Europe from SFO, with a peak schedule of 11 daily flights to eight destinations. Seasonal service to Barcelona launched last year and returns for an extended season this summer, building upon new service to Rome and a seasonal third daily flight to London Heathrow added in 2022.
SFO also has a more than 40-year history as the airline’s gateway across the Pacific and now offers flights to 17 different destinations in the Asia-Pacific region. This summer, United’s SFO hub will have 4.5 times more seats on flights to the Pacific than any other airline from any other hub in the U.S. Yesterday, United announced it is expanding its industry-leading Pacific network and making it even easier for travelers to explore Asia and Australia.
This winter the airline is launching new one-stop connections between San Francisco and Bangkok, Thailand and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam via Hong Kong. In addition, starting in December, United will add new seasonal-service between Adelaide, Australia and San Francisco, along with a second daily, year-round flight between San Francisco and Manila — making United the only U.S. airline to fly to both destinations.