{"id":116283,"date":"2021-09-18T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=116283"},"modified":"2021-09-18T22:05:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T22:05:38","slug":"united-airlines-will-fly-washington-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2021\/09\/united-airlines-will-fly-washington-nigeria.html","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines will fly between Washington, D.C. and Lagos, Nigeria beginning in November."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>United Airlines <\/strong>announced Friday that new service between Washington, D.C., and Lagos, Nigeria, will begin operations on Nov. 29 (subject to government approval).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline plans to operate the route three times a week on Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft featuring 28 lie-flat United Polaris business class seats, 21 premium economy seats, 36 Economy Plus seats and 158 standard economy seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>See also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/en\/2021\/09\/american-airlines-and-gol-sign-exclusive-agreement.html\">American Airlines and GOL sign exclusive codeshare agreement.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This new flight to Lagos has been highly anticipated by our customers and offers the first ever nonstop service between Washington, D.C. and Nigeria, as well as convenient, one-stop connections to over 80 destinations throughout the Americas including Houston and Chicago,&#8221; said Patrick Quayle, United&#8217;s vice president of international network and alliances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new flight builds on United&#8217;s expansion into Africa and solidifies United&#8217;s leadership position to Africa from the D.C. metro area, with more flights to the continent than any other airline. Just this year, United launched new service between New York\/Newark and Johannesburg, South Africa and between Washington, D.C. and Accra, Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Dylan T\/<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:United_Airlines_787-10_N12010.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wikimedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-post-grid uagb-post-grid  uagb-post__image-position-top uagb-post__image-enabled uagb-block-80dc59bb     uagb-post__items uagb-post__columns-2 is-grid uagb-post__columns-tablet-2 uagb-post__columns-mobile-1 uagb-post__equal-height\" data-total=\"420\" style=\"\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<article class=\"uagb-post__inner-wrap\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='uagb-post__image'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2026\/05\/gol-linhas-aereas-to-launch-direct-salta-rio-de-janeiro-route-in-december.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"bookmark 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