United Airlines just overtook Qantas in flights to the US

United Airlines is adding more services from Los Angeles and swapping to larger planes as it surpasses Qantas as the most frequent flier between Australia and the United States.

The airline, one of the largest in the US, will now fly three times a week to Brisbane from Los Angeles. It says this – and flights to Sydney and Melbourne added earlier this year – is the biggest expansion for a US carrier in Australia. United will operate 66 weekly flights, up 50 per cent on 2022.