Beginning June 9, United Continental subsidiary Continental will add nonstop service to Stuttgart, Germany, from its Newark Liberty hub. The carrier will fly one daily round-trip flight on Boeing 757-200 aircraft with 16 in seats BusinessFirst and 159 in coach.
Stuttgart will be the fifth German destination for Continental and merger partner United, which are in the process of moving to a single brand under the United name.
In a press release, Continental says “the new United is the leading U.S. carrier to Germany in terms of both seat capacity and number of flights. Continental already serves Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich from New York/Newark and Frankfurt from its Houston hub, while United serves Frankfurt from its Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. hubs and Munich from Chicago and Washington, D.C.”
“We are excited about expanding our German route network further, and we are confident that it will be a success, even in this fuel environment, as we are providing the only non-stop link between New York and Stuttgart,” John Slater, United’s Vice President of Sales – Americas, says in the release. “This new service, supported by our trans-Atlantic joint venture partners Lufthansa and Air Canada, will give customers more flight options on both sides of the Atlantic.”
Continental says the Stuttgart flights will be timed to connect via Stuttgart “to key Star Alliance partner markets such as Vienna, Austria, and Hanover, Germany.”
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