Originally Posted by ORDnHKG

Your logic totally make ZERO sense, just because an airline doesn't fly a route currently, doesn't mean the new starter will do well on it.




DL never flown SEA-HKG but doesn't mean others. I suggest you should read some airline route history first !

SEA-HKG was originally a UA route in the early 80s, it was the first UA TPAC route ever using a swapped CP DC10-30. It was never profitable and when UA purchase the entire PA TPAC more profitable routes like SFO-HKG, UA quickly dump it, then NW picked that up. Since UA didn't do well on it, same went with NW.

If there is enough loads for SEA-HKG, CX would have done it a long time ago. Notice the CX's N. America only goes to YYZ/YYR/SFO/LAX/JFK for a very long time, not until last year it starts ORD, so you know where the HKG traffic goes.