I wish ANA would fly to... [route speculation]
Oct 14, 2014, 7:45 am
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I wish ANA would fly to... [route speculation]
If I had a wish list of routes for ANA, the routes listed below would be on my list. I am based in the US, but I go out of the way to fly ANA because of their amazingly consistent producut.
HND to ORD
HND or NRT to AMS, AKL, ATL, CNX, CPT, DOH, DPS, DXB, IST, JNB, SYD
Any reasons these are good/not so good choices? Other routes worth mentioning?
HND to ORD
HND or NRT to AMS, AKL, ATL, CNX, CPT, DOH, DPS, DXB, IST, JNB, SYD
Any reasons these are good/not so good choices? Other routes worth mentioning?
Oct 14, 2014, 11:16 am
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DPS would be useful.
Would love HKT, PPT and OGG but we will likely never see these serviced.
How about before adding more destinations, they fix their meager intra Asia premium cabin product?
Would love HKT, PPT and OGG but we will likely never see these serviced.
How about before adding more destinations, they fix their meager intra Asia premium cabin product?
Oct 14, 2014, 7:04 pm
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I think KUL would be a reasonable SE Asia destination, especially if MH starts cutting capacity. Otherwise I think NH will focus on new long-haul destinations to Europe and North America (AMS, FCO/MXP, IST, PDX, IAH would be my guesses).
NH *might* start some new flights out of KIX, but there's a reason wags have been calling ANA "All Tokyo Airlines" for a while now
Personally I'd like to see a SYD route, but I guess JL and QF have captured whatever business market exists between Japan and Australia, and NH isn't interested in lower-yielding leisure traffic. Perhaps the 787 will change that.
NH *might* start some new flights out of KIX, but there's a reason wags have been calling ANA "All Tokyo Airlines" for a while now
Personally I'd like to see a SYD route, but I guess JL and QF have captured whatever business market exists between Japan and Australia, and NH isn't interested in lower-yielding leisure traffic. Perhaps the 787 will change that.
Oct 14, 2014, 7:05 pm
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Oct 14, 2014, 7:48 pm
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I think KUL would be a reasonable SE Asia destination, especially if MH starts cutting capacity. Otherwise I think NH will focus on new long-haul destinations to Europe and North America (AMS, FCO/MXP, IST, PDX, IAH would be my guesses).
NH *might* start some new flights out of KIX, but there's a reason wags have been calling ANA "All Tokyo Airlines" for a while now
Personally I'd like to see a SYD route, but I guess JL and QF have captured whatever business market exists between Japan and Australia, and NH isn't interested in lower-yielding leisure traffic. Perhaps the 787 will change that.
NH *might* start some new flights out of KIX, but there's a reason wags have been calling ANA "All Tokyo Airlines" for a while now
Personally I'd like to see a SYD route, but I guess JL and QF have captured whatever business market exists between Japan and Australia, and NH isn't interested in lower-yielding leisure traffic. Perhaps the 787 will change that.
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Oct 14, 2014, 8:43 pm
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I think KUL would be a reasonable SE Asia destination, especially if MH starts cutting capacity. Otherwise I think NH will focus on new long-haul destinations to Europe and North America (AMS, FCO/MXP, IST, PDX, IAH would be my guesses).
NH *might* start some new flights out of KIX, but there's a reason wags have been calling ANA "All Tokyo Airlines" for a while now
Personally I'd like to see a SYD route, but I guess JL and QF have captured whatever business market exists between Japan and Australia, and NH isn't interested in lower-yielding leisure traffic. Perhaps the 787 will change that.
NH *might* start some new flights out of KIX, but there's a reason wags have been calling ANA "All Tokyo Airlines" for a while now
Personally I'd like to see a SYD route, but I guess JL and QF have captured whatever business market exists between Japan and Australia, and NH isn't interested in lower-yielding leisure traffic. Perhaps the 787 will change that.
Last edited by BalbC; Oct 14, 2014 at 9:41 pm
Oct 14, 2014, 10:46 pm
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ANA are due 9 new aircraft during next supposedly for long haul route expansion. There are rumours for starting AMS, IST, and PDX from NRT. But that doesn't use them all. They have apparently been after an LHR slot for a second flight for a while so that's possible and ANA have been playing it safe by increasing frequency to outstations recently rather than new routes. Or maybe they will replace the 777-200ERs on HND-LAX as they don't seem keen to refurbish them?
A bit off topic, but I'm wonder what planes NH will use to retire those 306-seater regional int'l birds. It's worn and tired internally for those birds and they're desperately needing replacement/refurbishment.
Cheers
Michael
Oct 15, 2014, 5:51 am
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BWI, if only to spare me the first-world problem of connecting via an early AM United flight or having someone drop me at IAD when I'm headed to Japan. Last time I got by with my uncle (who worked for Ticketmaster at the time) coming up with a reason to be at Jiffy Lube Live. But hey, no Asia flights have ever run out of BWI.
Oct 15, 2014, 4:28 pm
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JNB is about 13.600 km about 500 km more than AA does with the 777-300ER om DFW to HKG, not considering prevailing winds patterns I would say it would not sound unreasonable from a range perspective. I have flown the route with Thai via Bangkok, and there has been a fair amount of passengers repeating at the gate in Narita and Bangkok, especially for the C cabin. So there might be a route potential.
Oct 16, 2014, 8:47 am
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Nov 2, 2014, 2:32 am
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I think KUL would be a reasonable SE Asia destination, especially if MH starts cutting capacity. Otherwise I think NH will focus on new long-haul destinations to Europe and North America (AMS, FCO/MXP, IST, PDX, IAH would be my guesses).
NH *might* start some new flights out of KIX, but there's a reason wags have been calling ANA "All Tokyo Airlines" for a while now
Personally I'd like to see a SYD route, but I guess JL and QF have captured whatever business market exists between Japan and Australia, and NH isn't interested in lower-yielding leisure traffic. Perhaps the 787 will change that.
NH *might* start some new flights out of KIX, but there's a reason wags have been calling ANA "All Tokyo Airlines" for a while now
Personally I'd like to see a SYD route, but I guess JL and QF have captured whatever business market exists between Japan and Australia, and NH isn't interested in lower-yielding leisure traffic. Perhaps the 787 will change that.