Originally Posted by
MasterOfPuppets
I don’t see any China out of the east coast coming back without Russia. We simply don’t have an aircraft that can fly it profitably.
ORD will be a stretch to PVG and PEK but it will be doable. HKG will only be reachable out SFO.
we will most likely route all China passengers thru SFO and LAX. With increased frequencies as needed.
Well, I certainly wouldn't bet against your thought, but on the other hand EWR to HKG over Russia and direct is about 8000 miles and we used to do that daily, and EWR to PEK or PVG avoiding Russian airspace is less than 7800 miles so not out of the range of feasibility. As I said several times before the fact that tickets are on sale has not been a good indicator, but at $7k per ticket I'm thinking' it could actually make money, hah! Certainly a LOT more than I'd be willing to pay to go to China - that's for sure.
