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Old Oct 6, 2014 | 8:36 pm
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Originally Posted by LwoodY2K
Wikipedia says the range on a -900ER is ~3200nm (~3700 miles). ANC-NRT is 3433 miles on GCMap.

I'm down.
Alaska claims a range of 3,383 statute miles for its 738s. SEA-HNL is 2,677; ANC-HNL is 2,777. Yet aircraft get diverted for tech stops. Scheduling routes at max range in still air & standard conditions doesn't work in reality - ask the United flyers about Gander diversions on winter west-bound 757s from Europe.

I'll point out that DL has 757s (configs with 4,700 mile range) in ANC every day and (still) a hub in NRT but doesn't fly ANC-NRT.
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