United Airlines Launches Los Angeles - Shanghai Flights

United Airlines has launched its first-ever flights between Los Angeles and Shanghai, China. The new daily nonstop flights provide a link between the second-largest city in the U.S. and one of mainland China’s most important centers for finance and trade.

United began operating flights to China in 1986, and today, it has 11 daily nonstop flights to Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai from hubs in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington.

Flight 877 departs Los Angeles daily at 1:23 p.m. and arrives at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport (PVG) at 5:45 p.m. the next day.  On the return, flight 878 departs Shanghai at 8:10 p.m. and arrives in Los Angeles at 5:07 p.m. the same day.

The flights are timed to provide convenient round-trip connections at United’s Los Angeles hub to cities throughout the Western U.S., Canada and Mexico. From the Los Angeles hub, United offers more than 225 daily flights to destinations throughout the world.

United will operate the daily flights using Boeing 777 aircraft with United First, United Business and United Economy sections. The airline is currently upgrading its international first- and business-class sections, including new flat-bed seats in business class. By the end of the year, both the first-class and the business-class cabins of the aircraft used on the Los Angeles-Shanghai route will have flat-bed seating. The flights will also offer improved economy-class features such as larger personal video screens, video-on-demand and in-seat power ports. For customers opting to sit in the forward section of the economy cabin, Economy Plus offers up to five extra inches of legroom.

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