United Airlines will be adding two new routes to India. Beginning December 2020, the airline will be introducing a new daily non-stop service between Chicago and New Delhi, for the first time ever. And starting summer 2021, passengers will be able to fly non-stop between San Francisco and Bengaluru.

The airline’s newly-announced international routes are subject to government approval.

With these new routes, United will offer more non-stop service to India than any other US carrier, together with the airline’s existing services from New Delhi and Mumbai to New York/Newark and New Delhi to San Francisco. “These new nonstop services will strengthen our international route network and provide our customers from India with even greater travel choice and the possibility to connect via our hubs to destinations across the Americas,” said Marcel Fuchs, United’s Managing Director – International Sales. “By introducing the first-ever nonstop service between the two international technology hubs, Bengaluru and San Francisco, we are proud to open up new opportunities for both business and leisure travellers,” Fuchs added.

United’s new services from New Delhi to Chicago and Bengaluru to San Francisco will be operated with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft.

With these two non-stop services, the airline will also build on its existing service to New Delhi and Mumbai. Chicago has the second highest population of Indian-Americans in the United States, while the service from San Francisco to Bengaluru connects two international technology hubs, broadening United’s west coast service to India, which also includes San Francisco to New Delhi.