Originally Posted by minnyfly

Shame the route didn't work out, but the writing was on the wall once the second SFO-PVG gained slots and started up. HGH became the placeholder it was from the start. There's better ways to use a 789 than to fly it half empty to China. Maybe one day we'll see it back as demand increases over time.



You can stop with that one. There's only one main dynamic in play. There was too much capacity and not nearly enough demand in the greater PVG market at this stage.




Please, bury those two falsehoods. Load factors down to the 40s and averaging in the 60s well before April tell us all we need to know about why it was cut.