Originally Posted by
Nantonaku
The North Atlantic might be bad but Asia is another story. NWA ran what basically amounted to a whole airline from Narita flying everywhere in Asia. Even after Covid clears all that will be left are a couple flights to Japan and Korea. Literally thousands of pilot jobs disappeared.
Part of that problem was airplanes that could go to all those places non-stop from the US didn’t really exist until the mid to late nineties.