Royal Jordanian is one of seven Middle Eastern carriers to serve the US and/or Canada, although Gulf Air has expressed interest in doing so . Jordan's flag carrier currently serves four North American airports: Chicago O'Hare, Detroit, Montreal, and New York JFK. However, flights to Washington Dulles will be starting.
The route will probably be announced before Christmas, with a start date sometime next summer. Royal Jordanian will replace United Airlines , which served the route between May 2022 and August 2024. Due to the Israel-Gaza war and the spillover into Lebanon, United kept delaying the return , with the route subsequently suspended.
Flights are scheduled to return at the end of October 2025, but Royal Jordanian's entry may stop this entirely. Royal Jordanian to Washington Dulles When writing, details—start date, exact schedule, days of operation, and so on—are unknown. However, I have been told that flights will be three times weekly, a standard frequency for a new service.
They will be on the Boeing 787-8, the carrier's sole widebody equipment for now, although it ordered the 787-9 late last year . It will be Dulles' fifth Middle Eastern operator, joining Emirates, Etihad, Qatar Airways, and Saudia. Given the degree to which Jordan's flag carrier revolves around connectivity across Egypt, the Levant, and the broader Middle East, flights will probably be timed like New York JFK.
United's Amman traffic came from visiting friends and relatives, growing tourism (at.
