Earlier I wrote about how United Airlines teased us yesterday with the promise of an “Historic Route Announcement” coming today.  I put out my hopes and thoughts on what this announcement would be.  You can take a look at that in more detail here.  

Just after 11am central time today, United Airlines’ CEO Oscar Munoz made good on his promise and here’s what we found out.  United will be expanding service at San Francisco (SFO), including:

• Toronto, Canada (YYZ) – NEW SERVICE
• Melbourne, Australia (MEL) – NEW SERVICE
• New Delhi, India (DEL) – NEW SERVICE
• Seoul, South Korea (ICN) – INCREASED FREQUENCY

Well, I don’t know if I would call this historic.  I wouldn’t even call it interesting, honestly.  Three of these routes are already served by Star Alliance Partners: Air India to New Delhi, Air Canada to Toronto and both United and Asiana  (and Korean) fly between Seoul and San Francisco.  The only thing new here is a Star Alliance flight between SFO and MEL, which currently is only operated by Qantas.

Marginal increased frequency (assuming the Star Alliance Partners don’t reduce their frequencies in light of these coming on) at a United Hub.  Great.  

So if you take a look at my predictions, I couldn’t have been more wrong.  Chicago is still the red-headed step child. United Airlines still doesn’t serve Africa.  I guess this is why I’m a casual observer and not in the airline industry.

Were your predictions right on or were you as off base as me?