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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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?
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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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I think there's a direct DEL-SFO air india flight, but for various reasons I'd rather not do the domestic hop on this side of the border. It's also expensive. The BOM-EWR United connection is often the most convenient. Also SFO-FRA-BOM works pretty nicely.
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Replying to @ManishEarth
I feel like FRA always has large volume of US-India connecting traffic. I guess it's only 16% additional distance, from gcmap.com/mapui?P=BOM-SFO,BO…

Mar 6, 2019 · 5:25 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
yeah sorry, was explicitly talking about pacific ocean flights LHR,and CDG are pretty okay for US-India. FRA is really good.
Manish @ManishEarth
6 Mar 2019
Replying to @ManishEarth @davidbaron
A lot of the flights through Europe otoh are scheduled to make this work well, so you can usually find convenient things through LHR, CDG, or FRA. I arrived here via FRA, but the return journey was more convenient and cheaper through EWR.
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