United continues Denver expansion to East Coast

United will add service to Greenville-Spartanburg, Portland (Maine) and Syracuse from Denver this June, further building on its expansion at the Colorado airport. The carrier will offer daily service on all three routes, with Greenville and Syracuse operated with 76-seat Embraer 175s and Portland with 150-seat Airbus A320, it said Thursday. The Denver-Portland route will operate seasonally during the summer. The new routes come as United buoys its schedule in Denver today. The airline is rescheduling its flight banks – periods with a high number of departures and arrivals designed to facilitate connections – in a move that will see its average daily departures jump by 44 flights to 420 compared to February 2018, FlightGlobal schedules data shows. "As we build on the strengths of our mid-continent hubs, United’s optimised schedule along with the growth in destinations offered and frequency of flights allows us to deliver on what’s best for our customers – more flights and greater access to more of the places they want to go," said Ankit Gupta, VP of domestic network planning at United.<br/>