{"id":428263,"date":"2026-05-15T07:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-announces-1st-ever-flights-sapporo-new-route-chicago-tokyo\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:21:23","slug":"united-airlines-announces-1st-ever-flights-to-sapporo-adds-new-route-between-chicago-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=428263","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Announces 1st-Ever Flights To Sapporo, Adds New Route Between Chicago &amp; Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> has announced two new routes, with the airline becoming the first U.S. mainland carrier to serve the Japanese city of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257174\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/sapporo\/\"  >Sapporo<\/a><\/span>. United will become the second carrier from North America to serve the popular Japanese winter tourist destination, following <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/historic-air-canada-to-launch-new-shortest-ever-nonstop-flights-to-asia\/\" >Air Canada&#8217;s annoucement<\/a> to also serve <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3494992\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/new-chitose-airport\/\"  >New Chitose Airport<\/a><\/span> (CTS), a region which is renowned for winter sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines makes history with its first-ever flights to Sapporo, Japan, while also adding a new route between Chicago and Tokyo Narita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,20258,1059,1030,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-new-chitose-airport","category-new-route","category-tokyo-narita-airport","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428289,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428263\/revisions\/428289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}