Originally Posted by
joejones
You just have to think of more isolated places, particularly tiny airports that have only one or two routes in and out. I just came up with PNI-TKK-GUM-NRT-OKA-UEO, probably the fastest routing between two small islands which are geographically not even that far from each other. You could probably figure out similarly crazy forced routings using smaller airports in Alaska, the Caribbean, Indonesia, Scotland, Greece, etc.
That's exactly the sort of thing I was thinking about. Posting a bit after midnight (in the eastern U.S. time zone), getting to bed seemed more important than coming up with a specific example. Thanks!