United Airlines have just announced an impressive international expansion from Chicago, Denver, New York/Newark and San Francisco.

The United announcement comes just a couple of weeks after American Airlines announced their new flights to Budapest, Casablanca, Krakow, Prague and Tel Aviv. The Chicago based airline's announcement includes brand new flights to Curacao in the Caribbean and two new European routes to Nice, France and Palermo, Italy.

Along with the new destinations, United is adding more options when it comes to European travel with additional flights to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and Zurich. The airline also confirmed that it would continue with its seasonal service to Athens, Barcelona, Naples and Porto.

In a United Airlines press release about the new routes and continued seasonal flights, the airlines International Network Vice President Patrick Quayle said,

"United's global network is a tremendous source of pride for our employees and loyal customers – we're always looking for ways to grow and expand our network to connect our customers to more destinations around the world. These new additions help position United as the airline of choice for customers planning their business or leisure travel."

New seasonal service between New York/Newark and Curacao

With Labor Day just around the corner and parents busy shopping for back to school supplies, United realize that winter is coming and it won’t be long before people start looking at winter sun destinations.

By adding the Caribbean island of Curacao to its network, it also opens up the other Lesser Antilles islands of Aruba and Bonaire. Flights to United’s 21st Carribean destination will commence on December 7th, 2019 using 737-700 aircraft.

New York/Newark and Nice, France

As the weather begins to start warming up in the South of France next May, United will start its daily nonstop service to Nice from Newark Liberty Airport (EWR) in New Jersey.

On the route, United is putting a Boeing 767-300ER aircraft that features 46 premium Polaris business class seats. This is the largest business class cabin of any American carrier’s flight from the United States to the French Riviera.

As well as the Nice flight, flights to Scilly will also originate from EWR with a daily non-stop service to Palermo, United’s fifth destination in Italy.

United flies to more international destinations from Chicago than any other airline

Not really surprising when it is your main hub, but United likes to remind us anyway.

Adding to their destinations will be Zurich, Switzerland starting on March 28th, 2020 with, you guessed it, a Boeing 767-300ER aircraft fitted out with 46 Polaris business class.

This will make Zurich the seventh year-round European destination from the "Windy City."

This new service will complement other flights to the German-speaking canton from Newark, San Francisco and the nation’s capital Washington D.C. United Airlines will also be adding a second daily flight from Newark, New Jersey to Amsterdam and Frankfurt.

These second daily flights will again be operated using Boeing 767-300ER aircraft but will have just 30 Polaris business class seats as opposed to 46 on the other daily flight.

United is looking to increase flights to London and New Delhi

The status of new flights to London and New Delhi depend upon government approval and will commence with a year-round Denver to London flight starting Nov. 1st, 2019.

On this new route, United will deploy a 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft which will make them the only airline offering a nonstop transatlantic and transpacific flight from the state of Colorado. In case you were wondering, the transpacific flight is to Narita International Airport in Japan (NRT).

Originally United Airlines announced that its San Francisco to New Delhi flight would be seasonal, but now the Star Alliance member has decided to make it year-round beginning Dec. 5th, 2019.

What do you think about United Airlines new routes? The one that makes the least amount of sense to me is Nice. Please let us know in the comments.