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Dec 28, 2022 | 2:19 pm

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Originally Posted by lsquare

Thanks for the correction! Wouldn't it be easier for UA to add connecting flights to SFO? Otherwise, how will you solve the Russian airspace problem?

You would solve the Russian airspace problem by not overflying Russia. EWR-ADK-HKG is 8574 statute miles, only about 500 miles longer than the nonstop. ORD-ADK-KHG is 8143 statute miles, only about 350 more than the nonstop. Both of those routes avoid Kamchatka as well as North Korea.

Or, if people are going to connect anyway, you connect at NRT, which is a much, much better experience than connecting at SFO and is hundreds of miles shorter to boot.

Adding a bunch of transcontinental flights to SFO to connect the few travelers who happen to want to go to HKG, just so that you can support 2x SFO-HKG, is a solution in search of a problem.

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