NEW NONSTOP LAX TO SHANGHAI AIR SERVICE RECOGNIZED AS “ROUTE OF THE WEEK” FOR ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE TO COMMUNITIES
(Los Angeles, California – May 25, 2011) Los AngelesWorldAirports, Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG), and United Airlines have received the Enterprise Award for Route of the Week from Airline Network News and Analysis (www.anna.aero) for the airline’s new daily, nonstop service between Los AngelesInternationalAirport (LAX) and Shanghai Pudong, which started May 20. The award from ANNA, an on-line, air-service-network planning and intelligence website with over 60,000 aviation-industry subscribers recognizes “new routes of special economic significance to the communities served.”
Local economists estimate the new air service will contribute over $350 million annually to the Southern California economy, and directly and indirectly support over 1,700 new jobs throughout the region. United has recently stepped up its expansion of China routes and this is the airline’s third route to the Chinese city, which it already serves from Chicago O’Hare and San Francisco. The Star Alliance airline operates the route daily with 777-200ER aircraft.
About United Airlines
United operates an average of 5,820 flights a day to 373 airports on six continents from their hubs in Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Guam, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark Liberty, San Francisco, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. United and Continental are members of Star Alliance, which offers 21,000 daily flights to 1,160 airports in 181 countries. For more information go to: http://www.united.com/homepage .
About Los AngelesInternationalAirport
LAX is the seventh busiest airport in the world and third in the United States, offering more than 565 daily flights to 81 domestic cities and over 1,000 weekly nonstop flights to 65 international destinations on over 75 carriers. In 2010, LAX served over 59 million passengers, processed over 1.9 million tons of air cargo valued at nearly $77 billion, and handled 575,835 aircraft operations (landings and takeoffs). LAX is part of a system of three Southern California airports – along with LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys general aviation – that are owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, a proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles that receives no funding from the City’s general fund. For up-to-date information on all LAX happenings follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/LAX_Official and Facebook www.facebook.com/laxairport.