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Old Feb 16, 2004, 2:28 pm
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UA actaully does not fly from Chicago to India. That was a pipe dream from one of the executives from a few years ago.

To see how an airline might fly a route, you might want to look at:

http://gc.kls2.com

The "Great Circle Mapper" is a cool site that shows you how an airline might fly from ORD-NRT. You'll notice that it's much less "polar" than ORD-HKG.
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