Originally Posted by
pig on the wing
My apologies if this has been asked before as I don't read the major section too often and I am too lazy to do a search....
I have heard a rumor more than once that Alaska airlines is gearing up to fly to Asia--Tokyo I heard. Not sure if the rumor including a new airframe or the plan was to fly HNL-NRT(HDE) with the mighty 737...seems like a steaming pile of balderdash but thought I run it by all you experts.
Thanks in advance.
At first I thought this was a crazy idea, but then again, when I was in newhire class 5 years ago, I thought Alaska flying to Hawaii was crazy too...
I remember seeing an Etops map during recurrent a few years ago that had the -800 reaching Tokyo. Maybe that was a little "agressive", but I wonder what the 900-ER's will be able to do?
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