UA drops GUM-HKG
Jun 30, 2019, 5:11 pm
#61
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They could have (and, arguably, should have) worked with ANA to open an award seat on HKG-TYO. They have a liaison desk that's supposed to handle these issues.
Jun 30, 2019, 6:47 pm
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CTS is a day time turn from GUM and a second KIX and FUK run could be in the evening...you said it right - there are more than enough aircraft on GUM; no reason why UA could not at minimum do a M,F HKG run vs pulling out completely.
Jul 3, 2019, 10:36 am
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so whats the rule on that? There were no revenue tickets on united, since united obviously doesn’t serve the route anymore. They told me because it was a partner flight, we needed mileage availability on ANA.
Any revenue flight was a $3,000 cost at minimum. those schedules also didn’t work great for us either, but now I’m curious to know what I could / should have pushed for
Jul 3, 2019, 11:52 am
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Dec 1, 2019, 4:22 pm
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Specifically, CA had PEK-HNL before. It was canceled way earlier than HKG-GUM.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Dec 1, 2019 at 4:52 pm Reason: stick to the issue, removed unneeded personal comment
Dec 2, 2019, 1:17 am
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Obviously if demand was there and slots were available, there would likely be HKG-HNL service, so I should have said that I am surprised the demand isn't there.
Interestingly, I was looking at FR24 one afternoon in Honolulu a couple of months ago and saw a four digit UA flight (767 aircraft) arriving at HNL from HKG, which I presume was a charter or some sort of ferry flight. Didn't let that get my hopes up!
Dec 2, 2019, 8:17 am
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It's cabin renovation (Polarization, PP installation, 777 9-10 conversion). HKG/XMN each is constantly working on at least one UA 767 or 777. N78004 (CO 772) just flew empty HKG-IAH on Dec 1.