United continues to show its love for Canada as they are set the resume two routes out of Edmonton for the summer 2025 season. This past year has already seen the airline resume or add new flights out of Montreal, Halifax, Winnipeg and Quebec City.
Edmonton – Chicago
This route will be operated three times weekly starting on May 22, 2024 with United Airbus A319 aircraft.
Here are the flight times (per Aeroroutes)
UA455 ORD1330 – 1635YEG 319 Wed, Sat, Sun
UA2004 YEG0805 – 1245ORD 319 Wed, Sat, Sun
Edmonton – Houston
This route will be operated four times weekly starting on May 25, 2024 with United Airbus A319 aircraft.
Here are the flight times (per Aeroroutes)
UA1964 IAH1630 – 2010YEG 319 Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri
UA2399 YEG0805 – 1329IAH 319 Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri
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. They should start around 15,000 miles one way for Economy Class however at the time of posting this article they have saver awards between Edmonton and Chicago for only 8,200 miles and to Houston for 11,500 miles!
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 Edmonton to Chicago and Houston flights. These routes are in addition to the following Canadian routes that were launched in 2024:
- United Airlines adding non-stop Montreal to San Francisco flights
- United Airlines adding non-stop Calgary to Los Angeles flights
- 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 by Joao Carlos Medau from Campinas, Brazil – United Airbus A319, CC BY 2.0,