{"id":22715,"date":"2026-05-15T02:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/22715\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:13:07","slug":"united-airlines-to-add-san-francisco-sapporo-ohare-narita-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/22715\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines To Add San Francisco-Sapporo, O\u2019Hare-Narita Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    United Airlines To Add San Francisco-Sapporo, O\u2019Hare-Narita Routes | Aviation Week<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"#main-content\" class=\"visually-hidden focusable\"><br \/>\n      Skip to main content<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/united_787-9_source_mcnew_getty_images.jpg\" alt=\"United Airlines 787 Dreamliner\" class=\"b-lazy  img--landscape \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: McNew\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>United Airlines will launch two routes to Japan for the 2025-2026 northern hemisphere winter season, including adding Sapporo to its network.<\/p>\n<p>From Dec. 11, Chicago-based United will begin flying between San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and New Chitose Airport (CTS), which serves the Sapporo metropolitan area. SFO-CTS flights will be operated three-times-weekly on a seasonal basis with a <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/term\/boeing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boeing<\/a> 787-9 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The route will be the only service connecting CTS to North America nonstop. Hawaiian Airlines serves CTS from Honolulu.<\/p>\n<p>United will also open service between Chicago O\u2019Hare International Airport (ORD) and Tokyo Narita Airport (NRT) from Oct. 24. The route will be operated daily year-round with a <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/term\/boeing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boeing<\/a> 787-8.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier will compete with both All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) on the ORD-NRT route. For the week of Oct. 25, when United\u2019s service kicks off, ANA is scheduled to operate 2,968 weekly two-way seats on the route, while JAL will offer 3,416 two-way weekly seats between ORD and NRT, according to OAG Schedules Analyzer data.<\/p>\n<p>United already flies between ORD and Tokyo Haneda Airport (HND), a route on which it currently operates 4,452 two-way weekly seats. The U.S. carrier also competes with both ANA and JAL on ORD-HND service.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the two Tokyo airports and new destination CTS, United serves Japanese cities Nagoya and Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/karp-aaron_sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"b-lazy  img author__image \"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/aaron-karp\" class=\"author--teaser__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Karp<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author--teaser__bio\">Aaron Karp is a Senior Editor at Air Transport World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Airlines To Add San Francisco-Sapporo, O\u2019Hare-Narita Routes | Aviation Week https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Credit: McNew\/Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-22715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hokkaido","8":"tag-hokkaido","9":"tag-japan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}