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Old Jun 20, 2009 | 9:29 pm
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Originally Posted by ORDnHKG
I don't quite understand why you would have a routing from US to NRT going through Hawaii on NW, you must be talking early 70s before 747 comes ?

When NW was using shorter range 747-100, it use Anchorage as refuel stop from US to NRT, rather than Hawaii, that is in the late 70s and early 80s. After that, they no longer need to refuel when the 747-200B comes, they can do ORD-NRT and JFK-NRT nonstop.
NW/DL currently have a HNL-NRT flight on a 744, 2x during the summer. Japanese tourists love HNL.
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