{"id":41446,"date":"2014-07-15T04:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=41446"},"modified":"2014-07-15T04:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T18:00:54","slug":"united-launch-daily-non-stop-guam-seoul-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/united-launch-daily-non-stop-guam-seoul-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"United to launch daily non-stop Guam-Seoul flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GUAM<\/strong>\u2014United Airlines announced Monday plans to launch daily, non-stop service between its Guam hub and Seoul, South Korea, effective Oct. 27, 2014 (northbound). The airline will use Boeing 737-800 aircraft to operate the service. Flights are now available for sale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to add non-stop service to Seoul to our extensive Guam hub network,\u201d said Sam Shinohara, United\u2019s managing director, Business Development Asia\/Pacific. \u201cAs Guam\u2019s hometown airline, we are thrilled to introduce South Korea as a new United destination for the Guam community, and at the same time we are committed to promoting Guam to the South Korean public as a perfect beach destination. We are happy to bring additional economic benefits to Guam\u2019s tourism industry following the recently-announced twice-weekly Guam-Shanghai non-stop service, which will start Oct. 28, 2014, subject to government approval.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flight schedule<\/strong><br \/>\nFlight UA163 will depart Guam\u2019s A. B. Won Pat Guam International Airport daily at 8:05am and arrive at Seoul\u2019s Incheon International Airport at 12:10pm the same day (all times local). Effective Oct. 26, 2014, the return flight, flight UA164, will depart Incheon daily at 10:25pm and arrive at Guam International Airport at 4am the following day (all times local). Flying times will be approximately 5 hours 5 minutes northbound and 4 hours 35 minutes southbound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>United in South Korea<\/strong><br \/>\nUnited started non-stop service to South Korea in 1986 and today serves Seoul\u2019s Incheon International Airport with daily non-stop flights from San Francisco, using Boeing 747-400 aircraft, and from Tokyo, using Boeing 737-800 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Onboard products and services<\/strong><br \/>\nUnited\u2019s Boeing 737-800 series aircraft are configured with up to 155 seats\u201414 United Business and 141 United Economy. United Business offers a superior business-class service. United Business amenities include comfortable leather seats, multi-course meals with complimentary premium wines and spirits. It also offers audio in-flight entertainment with complimentary headsets as well as overhead screens delivering complimentary movies.<\/p>\n<p>United Economy seats feature adjustable headrests and overhead screens delivering in-flight video entertainment. <strong>(United)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUAM\u2014United Airlines announced Monday plans to launch daily, non-stop service between its Guam hub and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[51,250,675,545],"class_list":["post-41446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-guam","tag-network","tag-san-francisco","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}