United Airlines plans to beef up its schedule and add new lounges at Denver International Airport, the provider’s wager that demand for flights at its fastest-growing hub will hold rising.

United mentioned Tuesday that it’s going to add 35 flights on the Colorado airport this yr. New nonstop routes embody 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 mentioned.

United was the airport’s largest carrier final yr with 46% market share, in contrast with Southwest Airlines‘ 31% share, Frontier Airlines with 10%, Delta Air Lines with 5% and American Airlines with 4%, in keeping with airport information.

But its new service comes as shifting journey patterns through the pandemic are forcing airways to rethink their networks and the place to greatest deploy planes, that are in short supply.

Airport passenger site visitors expanded rapidly through the pandemic as the town grew and vacationers sought outside locations amid restrictions aimed toward stopping Covid-19 from spreading. Last yr, the Denver airport dealt with a report of more than 69 million passengers, making it the world’s third busiest, up from sixteenth in 2019, in keeping with Airports Council International.

In comparability, 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 last year.

United can also be slated to open a new lounge and reopen one among two massive transformed golf equipment the newest signal of airways scrambling to make room for scores of high-spending travelers.

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