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Old Jun 12, 2023 | 12:32 pm
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Originally Posted by Duke787
HKG is a little harder to evaluate for the US3 due to Russia flyover restrictions and the penalty US carriers pay coming from anywhere other than LAX/SFO/SEA to fly to HKG
Yes, that is a current constraint for sure, but it's still pretty amazing UA is just now restarting SFO-HKG. DL or AA could fly HKG-LAX if they really wanted to. And of course same could be said for SEA at least for DL. But as we'll all opined, the demand just isn't there right now.
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