Originally Posted by
bloodyeyeballs
This would not applied to the OP, but for future reference, you are traveling XXX-HNL-GUM, there are options to go through NRT if flight to HNL is delayed or canceled. For example, from LAX, the flights to HNL all leave no later than 10:00 am. Flights to Tokyo leave around noon, so I’ve bailed on HNL and picked up LAX-NRT-GUM several times over the years.
Similar flights to NRT are available ex SFO, DEN, etc.
Just because (a) I love an odd routing and (b) the Mercator projection has really warped my understanding of geographic relationships (and I'm kind of vague about Guam to begin with... hopefully I'll solve that problem by visiting some day
) -- what does that do to flight time? E.g. is it a comparable reroute or does it add/subtract x hours? My brain is telling me it probably adds at least several hours but I'm not convinced...