Originally Posted by
moondog
There seems to be room in the market for the Delta flight. CX has gone light on LAX and SFO since Covid in order to focus on JFK, ORD, and BOS (routes that command high fares that UA won't touch until it is allowed to overfly Russia again).
Looking up CX 801 (ORD-HKG), it hasn’t overflown Russian airspace for as far back as my FlightAware account can look. In fact, it’s flying the same route as UA 881 (ORD-HND).