Originally Posted by
blug
Wonderful news. So does that mean NW will switch NRT-PEK back to USA-PEK nonstop in order to free up the slot for TPE? I'm itching for that, especially considering that NW did a PHX-PEK nonstop a few days ago

Well, something is not right. PEK-NRT flight sched has been changed 3X since Jan'08. It was NW12 (continuation to DTW), then changed to NW10 (continuation to HNL) and then NW30 (to NRT, but I suspect it merges with NW10 to HNL). NW30 is usually the PUS-NRT flight that codeshares with NW10 to HNL.
If they're phasing out PEK-NRT in favor of nonstop PEK-DTW for the Olympics, wouldn't that whack out the entire flight schedules for the TPac routes for pax going to USA west coast?