United is really showing Canada some love this year! They continue to add even more flights between Canada and the U.S. with the latest from them being a summer seasonal mainline service between Calgary and Los Angeles.
Calgary – Los Angeles
This route will be operated once daily starting on June 28, 2024 from Calgary (the LAX-YYC flight actually start on June 27) with United Airbus A320 aircraft. Flights are timed for connections via Los Angeles and not so much for connecting to flights in and out of Calgary.
Here are the flight times (per Ishrion Aviation)
UA2209 YYC0700 – 0920LAX
UA1132 LAX1925 – 2328YYC
Earning points & miles on these flights
You can choose to credit these flights to United’s own program, MileagePlus, but I would think most Canadians will opt to have these credited to their Air Canada Aeroplan account. You can also choose to credit these flights to any other Star Alliance partner .
United does not have a co-brand credit card in Canada however you can convert Marriott Bonvoy points to MileagePlus so you could use cards like the Marriott Bonvoy American Express Card or Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express Card to pay for these flights and then convert the points. Or you can choose to pay with a card that has a travel accelerator to boost your Aeroplan account like The Platinum Card from American Express or the TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Privilege Card.
Booking these flights with points & miles
As these are United flights, you can use United MileagePlus miles to redeem for these flights. It looks like they start around 15,000 miles one way for Economy Class
You should also be able to use Aeroplan points for these flights however when I checked Aeroplan on a few dates I couldn’t get the direct non-stop United flights to show up – only AC connections to AC and UA flights.
Wrapping it up
United Airlines’ significant Canadian expansion continues with them adding Calgary to Los Angeles, a route that Air Canada abandoned in 2023 when they cut back on a lot of routes out of YYC. For United, this route is in addition to the following Canadian route announcements from them in recent weeks:
- United Airlines returns to Winnipeg with flights to Chicago & Denver and resumes Quebec City to Chicago
- United adding flights from Halifax to Newark and Vancouver to Washington D.C.
Title image via JacobAviation