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Old Mar 5, 2016, 10:54 am
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coolbeans202
 
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Originally Posted by EWR764
HNL pax have a path to SIN through NRT by way of a metal-neutral JV, which is preferable (to United) to operating own-metal fifth freedom service.

I doubt the HNLSIN market is large or high-yielding enough where this was a major consideration.
Not that is really matters, but HNL pax can also fly HNL-GUM-HKG-SIN all on UA. Not sure what the connection is like in HKG though.
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