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Old Aug 21, 2018, 2:38 pm
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Originally Posted by Air Houston
My source isn’t very knowledgeable but I am hearing IAH-PVG and IAH-ZRH will be started. I suppose it makes sense because the aircraft could do a Pacific-Atlantic pattern.
Originally Posted by PsiFighter37

Not sure why ZRH makes sense.
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Connections to UAs extensive network in Latin America out of IAH might be a reason.

Meanwhile, the new SFO-ZRH does well and is expected to come back next year.

Originally Posted by marcusf
I recently had a conversation with a long time UA employee who indicated that management is intending to return to BKK maybe in the next year. There is a lot of demand from measure travelers and very little direct service from mainland USA.
ME carriers are taking a huge market share in BKK, siphoning traffic from East Coast and central US.
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