United Airlines is making it easier for Colorado-bound travelers to get to the runways.
The Chicago-based airline is offering year-round ground transportation to popular Colorado ski destinations like Breckenridge and Fort Collins from its hub at Denver International Airport, the company announced on Friday.
United is offering ground transportation to popular ski destinations like Breckenridge and Fort Collins, Colorado, from its Denver International Airport hub. (iStock)
The sky-hillside transfer, in partnership with the land transport company Landline, will begin on March 11 with daily service to Breckenridge and will offer service four times a day to Fort Collins from April 1.
Passengers can book the transfer through United.com and select their preferred location starting on Friday. The Fixed service will require mandatory masks, such as flights, and operate with reduced capacity to guarantee social distance on board. The vehicles will also be sanitized using a UV air disinfection filtering system, United said.
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The partnership comes at a time when airlines are working to increase ticket sales with fewer people flying during the pandemic and capitalizing on the increase in people interested in outdoor activities.
“Our customers tell us that national parks and ski destinations are important to them and we are proud to partner with Landline to offer a unique and continuous way to help them get there,” Ankit Gupta, vice president of planning and United’s home network programming, it said in a statement.
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The airline made headlines this week after an engine exploded on board its Boeing 777 flight 328. The aircraft made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport on Saturday after an engine failed and caught fire shortly after the crash. take-off.
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday that it was requiring inspections of Boeing 777-200 aircraft with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines before other flights after the engine failure, Reuters reported.