United Airlines and Edinburgh Airport are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the non-stop route between New York/Newark and Edinburgh. Since the service began in June 2004, the U.S. airline has flown more than 2.4 million customers on around 17,000 flights on the route.
“Our flights from Edinburgh to three of our hubs in the continental U.S. offer our customers in Scotland a wide choice of travel and the ability to further connect to more than 150 destinations across the Americas by summer 2024. With such an important relationship between Scotland and the United States, this route continues to facilitate business and tourism, benefiting the economy on both sides of the Atlantic,” said Karolien De Hertogh, Director of Sales for the UK and Ireland at United Airlines.
The airline’s presence in Edinburgh has been growing ever since, offering a year-round daily operation from New York/Newark to Edinburgh, increasing to two daily flights during the peak summer season of 2024, all services are operated on Boeing 757 aircraft.
United also offers seasonal service from Washington-Dulles and Chicago O’Hare to Edinburgh, both routes have a daily flight schedule operated on Boeing 757s. United is the only airline that provides year-round flights from Edinburgh and the United States, and has more seat capacity and flights from Scotland to the United States than all other U.S. airlines combined.
“During this time, the route has been incredibly successful, with more than two million people flying between our two destinations, and United’s global presence has grown with additional routes to Chicago and Washington D.C. as they have made Scotland’s capital city their home. That demonstrates the confidence in Edinburgh and the strong relationship between airline and airport. We look forward to many more anniversaries to come, and maybe even some new routes along the way,” said Gordon Dewar, Chief Executive of Edinburgh Airport.
