Originally Posted by
moondog
The Seattle discussion has more to do with Seattle to Asia in general than TPE in particular. If BR, CI, JX, DL, PR, and soon AS hadn't scaled up there, there *might* be room for a HKG flight, but CX jumping into the current firestorm would be moronic.
Yes, but it's not just about transit point links. Immigrant diaspora links are just as important (or sometimes more so) in accounting for a particular route's popularity (as pointed out above). In this example, the large number of Taiwanese on US West Coast is one important factor driving demand between TPE and US West Coast.