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Nov 8, 2004 | 3:29 pm

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Originally Posted by TexasFlyer

Delta does not have rights to fly to AU or NZ. I know CO once flew the route(and may still have rights to fly it) but CO and UA are the only American carriers that have flown to AU.

No, NW flew LAX-HNL-SYD from June 91 for about a year or two. I was on the inaugural flight. Great deal - $750 rt from MSP and I think double ff miles.

I wonder if it might also have something to do with equipment utilization. It seems to me that QF has two 747s that spend a fair amount of time on the ground at LAX because they can't make a complete roundtrip in a day, and of course QF can't get onward rights in the US. A US carrier could go onward from LAX to somewhere, but is it worth flying a 747 or 777 onward?
CO does fly some of its international 767s domestically as onward flights from EWR.
And doesn't one of NZ's AKL-LAX 747s goes on to London?
tom

Last edited by mot29; Nov 8, 2004 at 3:44 pm