United has decided to re-add regional flying to some of its smaller cities in the southeastern United States. During the height of COVID-19 and the years following, airlines had a hard time supplying pilots and numerous routes to smaller markets were cut.
Greensboro, N.C. and Greenville/Spartanburg, S.C. will see the return of flights to United’s hub at Washington Dulles. While they both have continued to see service to Newark, Dulles flights were cut back in early 2022 due to the regional pilot supply issues. These two communities being restarted were among a list of nine cities being cut from Dulles in early 2022, most of which still haven’t seen the return service and one of which isn’t even served by United anymore at all.
Similar to when they were last served from Dulles, service will be operated three times a day to each city onboard the 50-seat Embraer E145 operated by CommuteAir. Greenville/Spartanburg will begin on Sept. 26, 2024, while Greensboro will begin roughly a month later on Oct. 27, 2024.
