Originally Posted by
rmadisonwi
Also, the great circle route doesn’t go *that* close to ANC. Looking at some FR24 tracks over the past week, it appears that some of those flights actually took a more southerly route and were closer to HNL than to ANC anyway, so it’s probably also dependent on weather conditions, winds, etc.
Agreed. Depending on the winds, sometimes these flights take a very flat route back from SIN. SIN-LAX in particular would sometimes drop pretty far south.