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Old Dec 10, 2007, 8:24 pm
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glex50
 
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Originally Posted by Kurt
I took this flight last month and was surprised at our route - it looked just like LAX-NRT. Then after getting as far as Okinawa we sort of turned a bit more westerly and went past Taipei and into Hong Kong. In the past we've gone a lot farther north and west and overflown a lot of mainland China, approaching HKG from the north.
IME that's the normal routing from SFO, and LAX would probably not be that different. Can't say I've ever gone over mainland China on the way to or from HKG.
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