A United Polaris seat in a Boeing 787 Dreamliner
United Airlines announced it will resume daily non-stop service to Israel in early March. The move makes United the first U.S. carrier to restart service to the Holy Land.
The airline had discontinued flights shortly after the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023.
Flights will operate from the airline’s hub in the New York metropolitan area to Ben Gurion International Airport using Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner aircraft.
The airline typically Flight 14 using a Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner with the airline’s new Polaris business-class seating in the premium cabin. The high-tech aircraft has 44 lie-flat suites in the Polaris cabin. Each seat in the cabin extends to a 78” bed and the seat itself is 20.6” in width. The Premium Plus premium-economy cabin has 21 recliner seats that are 19” in width and have a seat pitch of 38”. Seats in Economy Plus, the airline’s premium-economy lite section, as well as in coach are 17.3” in width. Seat pitch in Economy Plus is 35”, while that figure is 31” in coach.
United flew nonstop to Tel Aviv from its hubs in San Francisco, Washington Dulles, and Chicago O’Hare, but said it does not plan to restart those flights until at least this fall. It does however plan to restart a second flight from Newark in May.
The first two flights will take place on March 2 and March 4, although those will stop briefly at Munich “to ensure all service providers are ready to support non-stop service to and from Newark,” the airline said in a statement.
The airline also said it had conducted “a detailed safety analysis” in making the decision to restart flights. This included “close work with security experts and government officials in the United States and Israel.”
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