United Airlines adds new international flight from Denver International Airport – Denver Business Journal – Denver Business Journal

United Airlines (Nasdaq: UAL) is launching a flight from Denver International Airport to Roatan, Honduras.
The carrier is the first to connect Denver to Honduras with the new Saturday service. Flights will begin on December 18.
United has been adding to its lineup of flights from Denver to the Caribbean and Central America. This year, the airline has added flights from Denver to the Bahamas, Belize and Costa Rica.
The Honduras flight is part of several new flights from multiple airports that United is adding to Central America and the Caribbean. In addition to the Denver flight, United also announced a new route from Cleveland to Nassau, Bahamas and from Chicago to Guatemala City. In total, United will operate 167 daily flights to the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico. It’s a 26% capacity increase compared to what it operated in Winter 2019.
“Throughout the pandemic, Latin America has remained one of the strongest regions for United with leisure demand meeting or exceeding 2019 levels,” said Patrick Quayle, vice president of international network and alliances at United, in a statement. “We have been adding new flights to Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America since last summer and with today’s announcement, United will fly 20 new routes across Latin America that we did not operate in 2019 so our customers can enjoy more beaches and warmer weather.”
In July, United announced additional daily winter flights from Denver to Belize City, San José, Costa Rica and Nassau, Bahamas as well as flights to Charleston, South Carolina, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Savannah, Georgia.
United isn’t the only airline that has recently added international flights from DIA. At the end of July, Frontier announced a weekly nonstop flight to Belize City.
Meanwhile, the Delta variant is forcing many airlines to scale back on flights, according to a review of flight data by The Business Journals. For DIA, about 4,200 domestic fourth quarter flights were dropped over the course of August. But despite the decrease in booked flights, DIA has still seen an increase in domestic traffic compared to the fourth quarter of 2020.
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