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Old May 22, 2020 | 11:31 pm
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Originally Posted by artvandalay
It made such a difference being able to get on a plane in SFO and when it landed, you were in HKG...no changing in NRT. On my first flight, I remember looking down as we passed 35,000' over NRT marvelling at the distance it was able to travel. Thank you UA and Boeing.
Were you really flying on a SP ? As flying 35,000 ft is awfully low on a SP after half of the fuel had been used on SFO-HKG over NRT.
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