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Old Jun 22, 2019 | 7:13 am
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Originally Posted by Wx4caster
The story on Hawaii News Now indicates there are ~200 passengers over-nighting in HNL. That doesn't sound like a ferry flight - are they just mis-reporting?

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/0...ight-honolulu/
My guess, in thinking about this, is that UA rescheduled everyone who was supposed to be on the BOM-EWR return for that given date to go BOM-HNL-EWR. I imagine HNL was chosen to avoid any potential visa/immigration issued if they landed at a non-U.S. location (e.g. NRT).

BOM-HNL is 8,023 miles according to GCM, which will make it the second-longest 77W route UA will have flown (after EWR-HKG). I do wonder if folks will get the extra routing credit - almost 13,000 PQM (without any multipliers) for the revised routing
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