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Old Jul 14, 2020, 8:11 am
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Originally Posted by sfosuw
GA used to fly DPS-HNL-LAX with the MD11 back in the 90's. HNL sounds like a viable stopover point if they are going to start LAX/SFO.
HNL adds quite a bit of miles onto the trip, they fly directly over GUM. HNL adds 170 miles to LAX and nearly 300 miles to SFO, These both assume a cooperative jetstream westbound, otherwise you'd want to pass farther north anyway which would make NRT/KIX/TPE a more desirable stopover..
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