Originally Posted by
emcampbe
don’t they need to change the flight timings for this? At least pre-pandemic, didn’t all (or at least, most) of the UA aircraft overnight at HKG (or go onwards to SIN/SGN back in those days), requiring crew to stay in HKG.
I only have direct knowledge about PVG, but I assume HKG operations are similar.
-No AA, AF, DL, or UA airplanes overnight in PVG
-In the case of UA857/858, I don't think there is any overnighting involved; 857 arrives in Shanghai at 530p and departs as 858 at 11p (in theory); after the 90-minute stop in ICN, it continues onto SFO
-last year, I flew AA from PVG to DFW and the drill was the same as 857/858
-I honestly can't recall what the schedules were before ICN was injected into the mix, except for the fact that they had afternoon arrivals in the US just like we have now