Nm19371 From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 70 posts, RR: 0 Posted (9 years 4 months 4 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 1499 times:
I know that Korean Air had one a few years back but they pulled out of BOS. But what about BOS-NRT or BOS-SIN? With all the high-tech companies in Boston, I'd think that there would be a demand for these flights.
Judging by that, there are no non-stop BOS-Asia, at least with asian carriers -- I couldn't be bothered to go to each U.S. airline's website to see if they do...
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31107 posts, RR: 74 Reply 3, posted (9 years 4 months 4 weeks ago) and read 1378 times:
American Airlines announced BOS-NRT in 1999, but canceled it, along with a plethora of other routes (ORD-SVO, ORD-AMS, MIA-ASU (instead of MIA-GRU-ASU), JFK-NRT, and JFK-FRA) in 1999.
LH423 From Canada, joined Jul 1999, 6501 posts, RR: 56 Reply 4, posted (9 years 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 1317 times:
Like MAH4546 said, AA announced a nonstop to AA), Japan">NRT using MD-11s. The flight was entered into the computer systems and I believe tickets were sold. However, about 6 weeks before the flights were scheduled to begin the Japanese government took away the slots AA had planned to use on BOS and JFK-AA), Japan">NRT.
They do still have the rights to the route but have not gotten the slots since or have utilized them for other flights, like LAX (as if LA needs another Tokyo flight). Nonetheless, I do feel that BOS's days without an Asian flight are numbered. I'm sure once the economy picks up again we'll see something either from a US carrier or JAL or ANA.
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Capt078 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 421 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (9 years 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1173 times:
the korean air flight from boston made one stop enroute to korea, and vice versa
LH423 From Canada, joined Jul 1999, 6501 posts, RR: 56 Reply 6, posted (9 years 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1106 times:
Actually, the KE flight flew nonstop from SEL to BOS, then made a stop in IAD before continuing onto SEL. When the flight originally started for the first year or so, however, it did fly SEL-JFK-BOS-JFK-SEL but for the rest of the time 3 or so years the route operated it did arrive nonstop from Seoul.
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Nm19371 From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 70 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (9 years 4 months 3 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 976 times:
When did KE drop this flight? I assume they did so because they were losing money on it - perhaps after 9/11. Also, I remember that ANA was talking about a NRT-BOS flight in the early 90s but I guess it never happened. Maybe the airlines figure that there are enough non-stops from EWR JFK and ORD with frequent connections to BOS and there wouldn't be enough demand to justify a nonstop flight. Im suprised that KE had one - I always thought there'd be one to NRT or even HKG. Anyway - I think that most pax flying to asia from BOS would be business customers who would prefer a non-stop flight- changing planes is exhausting and inconvenient- so maybe we'll see it after all -hopefully soon.
ChrisNH From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 3804 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (9 years 4 months 3 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 917 times:
People talk about passengers, when in fact what drew KE to Boston was the freight/cargo. Many times, that is the catalyst for starting a route no one else is serving. The passenger traffic would be there on a BOS-NRT nonstop, to be sure...but perhaps not 7x per week. If I were a carrier starting BOS-NRT, I'd try 3x or 4x per week and see what happens.
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