United Airlines Beginning Washington-Dulles (IAD) flight March 31, 2019 and Ending Newark (EWR) Flights on March 30, 2019
United Airlines will begin Daily Non-Stop Service to Washington-Dulles International Airport beginning March 31, 2019, while also ending Newark Service on March 30, 2019.
In Recent months, UA has shifted some of their Domestic Routes from EWR to IAD, so this is a big change for us here in Manchester, as we haven’t seen IAD service since the 90’s.
Unfortunately, this means United will Discontinue EWR, meaning we will now only have LGA as the only way to enter New York City.
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I think this is Awesome and a bit upsetting, because United could’ve kept EWR, as EWR was a successful route, and was continued when Continental merged with United back in 2012. So after 6 years, United has finally decided to axe EWR-MHT, and replace it with IAD instead.
Did you know: United used to fly MHT-IAD back in the 90’s using their 737’s. UA Quickly dropped IAD service due to competition.
I flew on United several times from MHT to EWR on United, so it’s a bit sad to see this service go. At least there is still direct service to LaGuardia though!
United is trying to move connecting transatlantic traffic through Dulles instead of Newark. This is part of a large shift of traffic. Daily departures should be well up in 2019 from Dulles.
It is great to see Dulles get so many new routes this year- announced and launched! United announced service to Tel Aviv next year, United to Edinburgh, Cathay “Paciic” now flies an A35K from HKG, Volaris now flies to Dulles, and now United from Manchester.
EDIT: The short lived Primera route, and JetBlue leaving Dulles.
That’s not true. You have plenty of lives available and the most it’ll take is 20 min during the morning rush. Thats why you show up early. How do I know? I used to work there, in United’s Terminal C. By far the most modern at KEWR
The main reason UA is dropping a lot of EWR regional routes is not becauze of profit. Since EWR is pretty restricted on slots UA is limited on what they can do therefore they are gonna prioritize mainline flights and larger regional routes. They are however moving those EWR cuts down to IAD because UA has a lot of room to do whatever they desire there.
No problem. Adding on to this, UA wants EWR to go almost all mainline at some point. With the Terminal A redevelopment at EWR, they should be able to get some gate space for some smaller mainline jets. (73G, A319)
