United Airlines is set to dramatically boost its services to and from Australia next month, with the carrier re-launching Sydney-Houston and Melbourne-Los Angeles flights and increasing operations from Melbourne to San Francisco.

October 28 is set to be a big day for the carrier, with Houston-Sydney and Los Angeles-Melbourne off taking off again on a thrice-weekly schedule, the same day United upgrades San Francisco to Melbourne from three flights a week to a daily operation.

“The schedule has been already loaded and customers can buy tickets at united.com or at local travel agents,” a United spokesperson told Wayfarer.

Following the re-launch, both the Houston-Sydney and Los Angeles-Melbourne routes will be upgraded to daily services, with flights from the City of Angels to Victoria increasing from December 1 and Texas to the Harbour City from December 15.

The move comes as United prepares to return to New Zealand from October 1 with the re-introduction of flights from San Francisco to Auckland and inaugurate services to Brisbane from San Francisco, on a thrice-weekly basis from October 28.

The launches and re-launches from October will see United operate 49 flights per week on seven routes to Australasia, including Auckland-San Francisco, Brisbane-San Francisco, Melbourne-Los Angeles, Melbourne-San Francisco, Sydney-Houston, Sydney-Los Angeles and Sydney-San Francisco.

To find out the latest in Australasia, plus more flights to Europe, new lounges, sustainability and the carrier’s new supersonic jets, Wayfarer host Editor-In-Chief, James Wilkinson, exclusively spoke on video to United Airlines’ Managing Director of Worldwide Sales, Marcel Fuchs, at the 2022 Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Convention in San Diego, California recently (click on the YouTube video above).