The shift toward more inclusive gender options comes after two major trade organizations, Airlines for America (A4A) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), adopted more inclusive international standards for all fliers. In addition to “female” and “male” gender options available when booking air travel, from June 1, A4A and IATA will allow member airlines to offer two additional options: “unidentified” or “unspecified.”
The change should also streamline security procedures that have long caused distress to non-binary people, including transgender travelers. Federal regulations require that identity documents correspond with the traveler, and stories about extra scrutiny on non-binary travelers abound. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has policies in place for security screening accommodations for transgender fliers, so it makes sense that airlines would work toward updated guidelines that respect all fliers, regardless of gender or gender presentation, while also adhering to domestic and international laws about passenger identification.
Some airlines will implement these changes sooner than others. For example, while (luv) Southwest said it currently has no timetable for the policy updates, United said it would roll out all four options in the coming weeks.
Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport is expanding its arsenal of direct, daily flights this summer.
On June 7, daily flights from GSP to Denver International Airport will take off for the first time starting at 6 a.m. With the time change, Greenville passengers will arrive in Denver at 7:31 a.m.
The announcement comes two months after GSP started daily flights to Miami.
The new nonstop flight will bring its first daily load of up to 76 passengers from Denver to Greenville on June 6, arriving here at 10:38 p.m., according to a statement from GSP spokesman Dudley Brown. Flights from Greenville to Denver on the same plane begin the next day.
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United Airlines will operate the flight, its fifth nonstop destination from GSP to other cities.
GSP’s president and CEO, Dave Edwards, said in a statement that he was pleased to see the airport’s relationship with United expand.
“Denver is one of the top 10 cities that GSP passengers visit the most,” he said in the statement. “This new service will make it more convenient for passengers to visit Denver or connect to other West Coast destinations.”
First-class and coach seats will be available.
Steve Jaquith, United’s vice president of the Denver hub, said his airline will be able to connect GSP customers to hundreds of domestic and international destinations in United’s network.
United currently offers daily nonstop service from GSP to Chicago (ORD), Houston (IAH), Newark, N.J. (EWR), and Washington, D.C. (IAD).
United Airlines will add three new domestic routes at its Denver hub.
Daily flights to Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Syracuse, New York, will begin June 6 and will operate year-round. Flights to Portland, Maine, start June 8, but they’ll operate only on weekends during the summer schedule. (Scroll down for full schedule details)
All three of the new routes will go head-to-head against service offered by Denver-based budget rival Frontier Airlines.
The routes add to other previously announced United routes to Charleston, South Carolina; Eureka, California; and Fairbanks, Alaska. Those flights also begin June 6.
In other details announced Thursday, United will expand its existing weekend-only summer service to Burlington, Vermont; Savannah, Georgia; and Pensacola in Florida. A Sunday round-trip flight is being added to those routes, which currently fly only on Saturdays.
Also getting more flights will be United’s service between Denver and Fort Myers, Florida. The route previously operated only during the winter, but will now be offered Saturdays and Sundays during the summer and fall until daily service resumes as scheduled in October.
The latest routes were announced the same day that United put its new “rebanked” schedule into effect at Denver. The airline has tweaked schedules on its “banks” of incoming and outgoing flights, trying to better match connecting passengers with flights.
United says the schedule adjustment – which began Thursday (Feb. 14) – will boost the number of morning flights available to business customers traveling from Denver to the East and West coasts while also improving connecting options for customers traveling to or from the airline’s Midwest and Mountain Region destinations. The effort was first announced last fall.
TODAY IN THE SKY: The fleet and hubs of United Airlines, by the numbers
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United Airlines unveils look for new employee uniforms
and provide better options to customers arriving on flights from smaller markets to get to destinations east and west of Denver,” he added.
United has already rebanked its schedules at its hubs at Chicago O’Hare and Houston Bush Intercontinental.
Schedule details for United’s three newest Denver routes are below.
TODAY IN THE SKY: United frequent-flyers splurge on miles to see Boeing 747 ‘disassembly center’ (story continues below)
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First look: United shows off its first Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner
Law360 (February 14, 2019, 7:06 PM EST) — Expedia Inc. has asked a New York federal judge to temporarily stop United Airlines’ plan to block the travel fare aggregator’s users from booking post-September 2019 flights, saying it’s in breach…
BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — Expedia Group Inc. boosted fourth-quarter revenue by selling more hotel rooms and airline tickets, but write-downs pushed profit down 69 percent, to $17 million.
The results still beat expectations for the online travel agency.
The shares jumped $9.13, or 7 percent, to $137 in extended trading Thursday after losing a penny in the regular session. At Thursday’s close, the stock had gained 13.5 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard Poor’s 500 index rose nearly 9 percent.
Expedia said that fourth-quarter adjusted profit was $1.18 per share, topping the $1.07 average forecast of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
Revenue rose 10 percent to $2.56 billion. Eleven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.54 billion.
About two-thirds of Expedia sales come from booking lodging on sites including Hotels.com, and that revenue grew 10 percent. Growth in the vacation-rental segment HomeAway — a competitor to Airbnb — slowed to 20 percent in the fourth quarter but grew 29 percent for the full year.
Airline revenue rose 18 percent, as Expedia sold more tickets and at higher average prices.
However, the Bellevue, Washington-based company is locked in a potentially damaging legal fight with a major airline customer.
This week Expedia said that United Airlines is threatening to pull flight information from its sites after a breakdown in talks over a new contract.
Expedia sued United and asked a federal judge to block the airline from cutting Expedia’s access to information about seats and fares. The companies’ current contract expires this fall.
In a heavily redacted complaint, Expedia said it would lose customers for years if United carried through on its threat.
United Airlines spokeswoman Maggie Schmerin said Expedia has refused to take part in “constructive discussions” about a new contract, and United expects its fares won’t be listed on Expedia sites after Sept. 30. She said that because Expedia might not be able to help United ticket holders after that date, United told Expedia it plans to bar Expedia from booking tickets for United flights on or after Oct. 1.
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Big Bang Theory star and real-life neuroscientist Mayim Bialik had some serious Twitter beef with United Airlines earlier this week when the actress claimed she had a boarding gate slammed in her face and was denied entry on her flight from Houston.
“To the United Airlines flight attendant who shut the boarding gate in my face, I made my connecting flight in Houston.” Bialik wrote on Twitter. “You said there were plenty of open seats. When you saw my carry-on suitcase you said there was no room and shut the door on my face.”
The issue came down to Bialik’s bag. Airline staff claimed the luggage wouldn’t fit on the aircraft because there was no more room for carry-ons, despite Bialik’s claims that five other passengers were permitted to take their luggage following the incident.
“Why couldn’t my little suitcase somehow fit?” the star Tweeted. “Maybe the first class seat I was supposed to sit in could have held it and I would have gladly sat in all of the open seats anywhere on that plane.”
Clearly still upset by the ordeal, Mayim took to Instagram to slam the airline once more.
“As [airline staff] turned me away, you let 5 other people on from my connecting flight because I had a carry on suitcase. They can carry ons too,” Bialik wrote in her Instagram post. “I understand everything was shut but that lady stewardess didn’t have to shut the boarding door like she did in my face without even saying she was sorry… maybe she hates The Big Bang Theory…”
United Airlines spoke to Fox News, simply stating “We were able to get Ms Bialik on the next flight to Los Angeles and we are reviewing what happened with our team in Houston.”
How to ensure your carry-on luggage makes it on the plane
Travelling with un-checked luggage saves a whole lot of time and hassle, but when it comes to overhead lockers, it’s a free-for-all.
Just because you’re seated in 10A for example, doesn’t mean that the locker above your head belongs to you, and if you arrive and it’s full, it’s your responsibility to find some free space.
The best way to ensure you carry-on luggage makes it on the plane is to get to the gate early and line up first. (iStock)
The best way to ensure you carry-on luggage makes it on the plane is to get to the gate early and line up first. This way, you’ll be one of the first on the plane and have first pick of locker space.
A lot of airlines have quite rigid rules about the size and weight of carry-on, so it’s important to know how much you can bring on to avoid having to check your luggage or worse – bin some of your gear.
SHERIDAN — The interline agreement between the Denver Air Connection and United Airlines has taken effect as of Friday, according to DAC Business Development Director Wade Goetz.
The agreement allows passengers to book trips that include flights to or from Sheridan and Riverton through United’s website and have their luggage automatically transferred between each leg of the trip.
Goetz said the first passenger to use the new service flew from Salt Lake City, Utah to Riverton Monday.
He noted, however, that the implementation of the agreement was the first part of a longer process. Right now, Goetz said, fares for trips that originate locally are currently much higher than flights leaving from Denver because United does not yet apply discounts to local flights that it does to flights leaving Denver.
To help passengers secure better price, Goetz said United has agreed to let passengers fly to Denver from one of the local airports and purchase the ticket for the second leg of their trip once they arrive.
“We anticipate going in a doing some further negotiations, trying to get some better fares on the interline portion so you’re just buying the one ticket,” Goetz said. “So it’s a step-by-step process.”
Goetz also said Sheridan and Riverton will begin appearing on flight aggregators, like Expedia.com or Travelocity.com, in the next four weeks.
“Anticipate in the next couple of months that you’ll see better and better pricing and better and better opportunities with this and we’re going to keep moving from there,” Goetz said.
Passengers traveling from Sheridan with Denver as their final destination should still book their flights through Flysheridan.com, Goetz said, as those flights will not appear on United’s site.
TAMPA — United Airlines is looking to expand its operations at Tampa International Airport with a new $33 million maintenance hangar.
The Hillsborough County Aviation Authority on Thursday will consider leasing the airline 9.5 acres at the southwest corner of N West Shore and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards. The land, which is east of Tampa International’s terminal and airfield, would become home to a two-bay maintenance hangar and tarmac for United’s Boeing 737 jets.
Talks about United building a new maintenance facility at the airport have been underway since 2015. The airline flies 277 flights a week, serving six markets, into or out of Tampa International. In December, it carried 9.7 percent of passengers flying to or from Tampa, making it the airport’s fifth largest airline, behind Southwest, Delta, American and Spirit airlines.
In June, United plans to double its daily service between Tampa and San Francisco to twice a day. The expanded service will allow business fliers to get to San Francisco for an afternoon meeting or dinner and return to Tampa on the new red-eye flight.
As proposed, United would build the hangar. It would lease the land from the airport. It would start to pay rent 24 months after the agreement is approved, whenever its new hangar is finished or as soon as it starts to use the property for its operations, whichever comes first. United would pay $297,950 during the first year of the 20-year agreement, with the rent rising annually in line with changes in the consumer price index. The airline would receive a rent credit of about $1.2 million for doing site preparation work that normally would be the responsibility of the airport.
The United hangar would be just west across West Shore Boulevard from a 70-acre area where the airport is looking to expand its growing cargo operations. In October, the aviation authority hired a Massachusetts firm, the Middlesex Corp., to design and build an expansion estimated to cost $72 million. The airport saw more than a 100 percent increase in the weight of cargo shipped from 2015 to the middle of last year, a rate of growth only second to Cincinnati.
