United will begin flights between Newark and Marrakech, Morocco, in October, the first airline to announce service between the U.S. and Marrakech.
The airline will also launch trailblazing routes to Cebu, Philippines, and Medellin, Colombia, in the summer and fall.
The airline will serve Marrakech from Newark three times weekly beginning Oct. 24 with a Boeing 767-300ER equipped with business class, premium economy and economy cabins.
Marrakech will be United's lone Moroccan destination and its fifth in Africa, joining Accra, Ghana; Lagos, Nigeria; and Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa.
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United will begin flying to Medellin on Oct. 27 with daily service from Houston Bush Intercontinental. It will operate the routes with a Boeing 737 narrowbody and will be the only airline flying between Houston and Colombia's "City of Eternal Spring."
United's first route to the Philippines beach destination of Cebu will launch on July 31 and will include a connection at Tokyo Narita. United will be the lone U.S. airline serving Cebu and will compete on Narita-Cebu with Cebu Air, Philippine Airlines and Philippines AirAsia, according to Cirium flight schedule data.
United said it will schedule that flight, to be operated with a Boeing 737-800 plane, to offer convenient connections to its Narita service to and from Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston and Newark.
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United also said it will launch four-times weekly Los Angeles-Shanghai service on Aug. 29, with frequencies increasing to daily in late October. That announcement follows a planned increase in the number of total weekly flights that U.S. airlines are allowed to fly to China from 31 to 50.
United will compete on Los Angeles-Shanghai with Delta and China Eastern, according to Cirium data.