SAS hopes to begin CPH-HND, ARN-NRT by 2020
Dec 9, 2019, 11:02 am
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When it comes to most of the 6+ hour flights where Ive flown out only to fly back on the first flight out on the same plane/airline, it mostly hasnt involved the same crew working the return flight too. But its been a long time since Ive done this with SAS to Asia.
Dec 9, 2019, 12:10 pm
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The 9 hours layover was introduced some time ago to be able to do a night flight back to Europa. I think there were a discussion about it here when it was introduced and most people praise the change from the early afternoon return flight to the night return flight.
Dec 15, 2019, 4:32 am
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Good news for all.
Dec 15, 2019, 5:02 am
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So they got their optimal schedule, as keeping the planes for way more hours at HND otherwise was going to come at an expense. And SK likes to go cheap nowadays. 
Dec 15, 2019, 6:36 am
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Dec 15, 2019, 7:14 am
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Dec 15, 2019, 10:15 am
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So why are SK still keeping the bird on the ground for almost 9 hours at HKG? They didn't do this until about a year ago or so, and as far as I understand they had to get permission from the HKG airport to do this.
Dec 15, 2019, 10:21 am
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I guess redeyes are more popular to travel to Europe - I think the only day flights are left are those to LHR and AY.
Dec 15, 2019, 10:47 am
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Having a high-priced big bird grounded for long times far away from the nest is done on the expectation by the airline that it's worth the airline's money to do so, perhaps because otherwise the big customer money goes to the alternative service providers and/or that there was no better alternative use/plan for it from the airline.
Dec 15, 2019, 10:51 am
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Having a high-priced big bird grounded for long times far away from the nest is done on the expectation by the airline that it's worth the airline's money to do so, perhaps because otherwise the big customer money goes to the alternative service providers and/or that there was no better alternative use/plan for it from the airline.
Dec 15, 2019, 11:08 am
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