United adds – United announced nonstop service from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport to Miami and Las Vegas, with flights launching later this year. Tickets go on sale this evening, and the routes are set to operate on multiple days each week—giving Cleveland travele
For a leisure trip out of Cleveland, the wait just got a little shorter.
United Airlines announced Thursday that it will add nonstop service from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport to Miami and Las Vegas. The carrier says both routes will launch later this year, part of what it calls its largest schedule from the northern Ohio city in about a decade.
The timing matters to travelers who remember when United used Cleveland as a hub. That changed when the airline wound down its operations at CLE in 2014.
Tickets for both new routes will go on sale this evening.
United’s new Cleveland-to-Las Vegas service will begin Sept. 24 and will operate throughout the year. Cleveland-to-Miami, however, comes with a seasonal twist: the flight will kick off Dec. 3 and run only during the peak winter season months through early April.
Both routes will operate on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. United will serve each nonstop route on one of its Boeing 737-800s.
“Cleveland is an important market for United. and these flights continue the investment in our route network there by providing the local community with more nonstop and convenient flight options. ” Mark Weithofer. United’s managing director of domestic network planning. said in a statement announcing the news.
The shift also lands against a backdrop of how much United’s Cleveland flying has changed. United operated over 60. 000 flights from Cleveland in 2013. according to Cirium data. averaging over 160 daily departures. including service to both Las Vegas and Miami. Last year, the carrier operated just over 11,000 flights from the airport—around 30 per day.
Even as United ramps up, competition is already in place. Southwest Airlines and Frontier Airlines both fly CLE-LAS. Frontier and American Airlines fly CLE-MIA.
The new nonstop launches don’t just add destinations—they add convenience for passengers who previously had fewer nonstop choices from CLE, especially during a period when United’s role at the airport was much smaller than it had been a decade earlier.
United Airlines Cleveland Hopkins International Airport CLE Miami Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport MIA LAS nonstop flights Boeing 737-800 leisure routes Mark Weithofer
Finally something good for Cleveland. Miami without a connection is gonna be packed.
Wait so they’re flying nonstop to Las Vegas but only on like, weekends? Kinda pointless then. Also why do they care about being a hub again, didn’t United already leave?
I read this as like United is adding nonstop CLE to both Miami and Las Vegas but then I saw tickets go on sale “this evening” and my brain stopped working lol. Is it every day or only some days? The article says Mondays too but then it’s also like peak winter season for Miami? So basically you can go to Miami in December and then again… never?
Southwest and Frontier already have those routes though, so what’s the big deal? Maybe United is just copying what’s already there and charging more. If they were really investing they’d bring back the whole hub thing like 2014 didn’t happen. Also Boeing 737-800… aren’t those the ones that feel like they’re gonna rattle apart?