my 16hr flight got rerouted due to the border issues and it's now a 20hr flight with a refuel stop in munich my journey home is going to be a total of 28 hours, not counting time going to/from airports wheeee
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Replying to @ManishEarth
I guess that's the disadvantage of going via the East coast? I don't understand why the East Asian hubs (ICN, HKG, PEK, PVG, TPE, NRT, KIX, etc.) don't try to take more India-US traffic. Do you?

Mar 6, 2019 · 5:16 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
They sometimes do, it's just often expensive and/or inconvenient. There aren't many airlines that have a well-scheduled hub connection to India, basically. So you can totally go via Narita or something but you may have a ridiculous halt.
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Yeah, I guess it's hard to schedule any of those hubs so the flight times work well for origin+destination traffic *and* for a decent through connection to India. A schedule that might work for the US side is what Cathay does for SFO-HKG, with flights every ~12 hours.
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