Originally Posted by ATOBTTR

Not sure what you mean by this, yes out of NYC or SFO with the directs, certainly the directs would be preferred. But for anyone who has to connect anyway, ICN isn't out of the way over NRT. SIN-ICN is 2900 miles and SIN-NRT is 3300 miles. So about 1 hour flying time difference (SIN-ICN is still going to be about 6 hours). And if going to the US, NRT isn't any more or less convenient than ICN when going to ICN due to the great circle routes. For example, SEA-NRT-SIN is 8,093 miles per GCMap while SEA-ICN-SIN is 8,083 miles. To DTW, SIN-ICN-DTW is 9,503 miles while SIN-NRT-DTW is 9,721 miles.