United Airlines will expand its service to Italy and Spain which are opening to tourists...................

The U.S. mega-carrier United issued a statement on Friday in which it applauded Spain after the country that survives on tourism decided to reopen its borders to vaccinated travellers from 7th June. The Spanish change of direction follows the European Union's recommendation that EU Member States can reopen to fully vaccinated tourists.

United will be upping its schedule to offer over 30 daily flights to 16 destinations in Europe this summer, including services between New York/Newark and Barcelona and Madrid.  "The EU Council's recommendation represents the turning of the page in the pandemic for our customers, employees and residents of the EU, and brings us all closer to reuniting the world," said Patrick Quayle, vice president of international network and alliances at United. "In addition to offering service to more destinations in Europe than any other U.S. carrier, only United allows customers to easily upload vaccine records and testing results to our app making international travel much easier."

United also recently announced a new collaboration with Abbott and became the first U.S. carrier to set up an easy way for international travellers to bring a CDC-approved test with them, self-administer while abroad, and return home through an innovative collaboration with Abbott. To see how it works click here.

United is increasing flights across Europe and will operate the following routes to European countries which have recently announced plans to welcome tourists who meet the destination requirements:

Spain:

United will resume 5x weekly service between New York/Newark and Barcelona beginning in July

United will resume 6x weekly service between New York/Newark and Madrid beginning in July

Italy:

United will increase flights between New York/Newark and Rome to daily in July

United will increase flights between New York/Newark and Milan to daily in July

United's flights from New York/Newark and Rome and Milan are part of Italy's COVID-tested flights programme - customers travelling on these flights may avoid self-isolation and must present a negative PCR or rapid antigen test result, performed no more than 48 hours prior to departure and a negative antigen test on arrival.

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