Originally Posted by Xero

I feel most customers would rather fly nonstop from the US to their destination in Asia. Another issue is that Asian airlines provide superior products compared to US airlines, so AA will have difficulty competing at NRT.

The only Asian route that *might* work is NRT-DEL, which is hard to do from the US because of the sheer distance. Flying though Asia is less distance from the west coast. DL gave up on it and now only flies AMS-DEL. Somehow, CO managed to pull off both JFK-DEL and JFK-BOM which UA now flies.