United Airways plans to beef up its schedule and add new lounges at Denver Worldwide Airport, the service’s wager that demand for flights at its fastest-growing hub will maintain rising.

United stated Tuesday that it’ll add 35 flights on the Colorado airport this 12 months. New nonstop routes embrace service to Greensboro, North Carolina; Dayton, Ohio; Lexington, Kentucky; and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The airline’s Denver service this summer time will common 450 each day departures, a spokeswoman stated.

United was the airport’s largest service final 12 months with 46% market share, in contrast with Southwest Airways‘ 31% share, Frontier Airways with 10%, Delta Air Strains with 5% and American Airways with 4%, based on airport knowledge.

However its new service comes as shifting journey patterns throughout the pandemic are forcing airways to rethink their networks and the place to greatest deploy planes, that are briefly provide.

Airport passenger visitors expanded quickly throughout the pandemic as the town grew and vacationers sought out of doors locations amid restrictions aimed toward stopping Covid-19 from spreading. Final 12 months, the Denver airport dealt with a report of greater than 69 million passengers, making it the world’s third busiest, up from sixteenth in 2019, based on Airports Council Worldwide.

As compared, San Francisco, one other United hub, which loved a company journey enterprise earlier than the pandemic, served 57.5 million passengers in 2019 and simply 42.3 million final 12 months.

United can be slated to open a brand new lounge and reopen one in every of two giant reworked golf equipment the most recent signal of airways scrambling to make room for scores of high-spending vacationers.

Final 12 months, United opened a grab-and-go mini lounge at Denver aimed toward vacationers connecting to different flights.