Originally Posted by
Wasabi Tofu
Only three European segments are used.
So, AMM-xCDG-NRT is longer than AMM-KUL-NRT.
As counter intuitive as it may seem the difference is less than 100mi (8,057 vs 8,152) and the cost is that CDG (as you pointed out) has to be a transit while KUL can be a stop.