Originally Posted by
ORDnHKG
At the moment it is not, but since you are not going to travel not til a year later, who knows what happened from now and then, not to mention, it is rather pointless to ask what config it is when you are not even going to fly til a year later, no airline publish schedules a year ahead !
I *believe* that NH 11/12 is always the 77W (though YMMV with swap-outs) and it's NH 1011/1012 that seems to vary so if the OP can get on NH 11/12 it would say that the OP has pretty good odds of getting the new J but then again NH 1/2 (IAD) is slated to be 77W for long periods of time and randomly swaps around.
Such a schedule makes sense since NH 11/12 is the primary ORDNRT route and NH 1011/1012 was the 2nd one added in so if demand isn't there for two 77Ws or they need to make operational changes for certain days or seasons, pulling it from 1011/1012 comes first
Point being other than JFK and LAXNRT none of them are running 77W at or near 100% of the time