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Old Aug 13, 2014 | 10:15 am
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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward
Yes, but most from Europe and Asia. Consider that TG (the flag carrier for Thailand) flies to many European/Asian cities nonstop, but could not sustain nonstop service to ANY USA destination- their current USA service to LAX is not nonstop (hasn't been for a while), and their JFK service flopped. If there's latent demand from the United States to Thailand, why hasn't TG been able to take advantage of it?
Well, there is that whole pesky 8,000+ mile distance issue, and the not cheap price of Jet A.

You could make the argument for SQ not flying to the US n/s anymore either - it's not because there's no/low demand to go to/from SIN.
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