Originally Posted by andrzej
with the exception of California(35M), the east coast, midwest and the south have the majority of population. Think Texas(22M), Michigan(10M), New York(19M), Illinois(13M), Ohio(11M), Pennsylvania(12M), Georgia(9M), Florida(18M).
but, the west coast is closer to china. consequently, there are higher concentrations of chinese people and chinese businesses in those parts.
With that kind of base, AA is correct in thinking connections from these parts of the country.
justageek never suggested that you be deprived of your right to fly to china from those other places. he merely implied that it would be nice if dfw-pek could leave an hour later in order to accomodate west coast connections (a reasonable request, i think).
UA has 2 SFO flights to China, NWA has few and finally I really don't know how many the Chinese airlines have from the west coast but I'm sure it's quite a few, so what's the big problem?
not a
big problem, but ua is the only us carrier that serves china n/s from the west coast and both of its flights leave from the same airport. lax has 21 weekly frequencies, all of which are on chinese airlines that i don't really like (although i'm quite sure that there will come a day when ca, mu, and cz are regarded as better airlines than aa and ua).
so i think it would have been nice if aa tried to get in the west coast game (flying from china to dallas, you would fly over the west coast so why not land the plane and let me off?). short of that, a schedule that facilitated connections from the west coast would have been ok.