Originally Posted by
Stampy
The flight map doesn't show anything about SFO-HKG which was the concern of the topic. Perhaps you could have chosen a flight of the routing that the OP was concerned about. Quite frankly I am surprised the issue of LAX-HKG has been brought up repeatedly in an SFO-HKG thread.
The previous poster probably should have chosen a SFO-HKG flight map, but they are basically the same as LAX-HKG for most days.
And while fuel stops for SFO-HKG is less common, they do happen. Multiple CX and SQ SFO-HKG flights stopped for fuel at ICN or TPE last winter. Less so for UA.