United Cuts San Francisco–Adelaide Winter Flights (simpleflying.com)

United Airlines will fly its San Francisco–Adelaide route only 23 times in the 2026/27 season, down from a planned 49 return flights, a 53.1% cut. The Boeing 787-9 service, the first nonstop link between North America and South Australia, will now run December 17, 2026, through February 8, 2027, instead of December 3 to March 25. The airline carried 11,778 round-trip passengers in the route's first season at a 52.7% average load factor, which fell to 33.7% in February 2026.