United continues to add more Canadian routes and the latest will be the return of a non-stop flight between Regina and Denver. The route was last operated by United in 2015. This news comes shortly after the airline announced the resumption of two routes out of Edmonton for the summer 2025 season. All of these are in addition to the airline resuming or adding new flights out of Montreal, Halifax, Winnipeg and Quebec City in 2024.
The Regina – Denver route
This route will be operated daily starting in May 2025 with SkyWest (United Express) CRJ200 aircraft.
Here are the flight times (per Aeroroutes)
UA5026 Denver – Regina Dep 1900 Arr 2134
UA5028 Regina – Denver Dep 0945 Arr 1203
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 available at 12,400 miles one way.
You should also be able to use Aeroplan points for these flights however when I checked Air Canada’s site 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 Regina to Denver flights in 2025. These routes are in addition to the following Canadian routes that were launched or announced in 2024:
- United Airlines adding non-stop flights from Edmonton to Chicago & Houston
- 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.
Images via United and SkyWest