United Airlines said Wednesday it would mount daily nonstop service from Manila to San Francisco in October 2023.
The new flight, still subject to government approval, will be the airline’s first trans-Pacific service from Manila since it started its Manila operations in 1982.
The first westbound flight from SFO to Manila would depart on Oct. 29, 2023.
“We are excited to launch the new nonstop service from Manila to San Francisco to meet strong requests from our customers on both sides of the Pacific,” United’s regional director of sales for Greater China, Korea and Southeast Asia Wally Dias said.
“With this new nonstop service, we will be able to offer our Manila customers not only the convenient daily nonstop service to San Francisco, but also more than 70 one-stop destinations in the mainland US, Canada and Latin America via our hub in San Francisco,” he said.
Dias said that the launch of its first trans-Pacific service shows the airline’s continued strong commitment to the Philippine market.