Hjulicher From Liechtenstein, joined Feb 2005, 847 posts, RR: 2 Posted (8 years 1 month 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1638 times:
Well, just playing around with flight schedules with Korean Air and Northwest, and I found out that between ICN and NRT, both Korean Air and Northwest use very large equipment on this route. Northwest uses an A332 and Korean Air uses a B747. The two cities are only 735 miles apart, and there are five daily flights between the two cities. Why are such large aircraft used?
Jetjack74 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 7336 posts, RR: 52 Reply 1, posted (8 years 1 month 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1608 times:
Because we(NW) use NRT as a big hub to feed ICN with other flights from the US. As far as KE, can't speak for them, but i'm guessing there's alot of business between the 2 countries.
Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22030 posts, RR: 51 Reply 2, posted (8 years 1 month 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1594 times:
NRT-ICN is one of the busiest city pairs within Asia. Not just NW and Korean use large widebody equipment, however JAL, Asiana, and United all use aircraft up to B747s on the route.
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Carpethead From Japan, joined Aug 2004, 2770 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (8 years 1 month 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1516 times:
Hjulicher,
Do a search for a flight between HKG & TPE you'll find even more widebodies.
Do a search for ITM & HND or CTS & HND and you'll really be surprised what operates on these routes.
A332 for this route is rather small. Look at the equipment used by JL, OZ, NH, etc. You might also want to look at the schedule for AKL-SYD. You will also see a lot of wide bodies, TPE-HKG is another good one, ITM-HND, FUK-HND, etc are all like that.
Planemannyc From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 989 posts, RR: 9 Reply 8, posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1316 times:
Just flew ICN-NRT on a KE 777 -- full flight. The day before, my fiancee and her mom flew on a KE 747 on the same route, full flight again. That was in mid-march. I don't think there was any vacation time (not many kids). Amazing that such short flights with such large equipment run so full!
Flykal From Australia, joined Sep 2003, 441 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1274 times:
Also don't forget there are 4 daily flights GMP (Seoul, Gimpo) - HND (Tokyo, Haneda) which for us (KE) is a 744 , JAL usually a 747, ANA a 763 and OZ a 763.
These flights have been specially created to service airports closer to the city center than NRT and ICN. For us, they are usually full and I would imagine other carriers are in a similar position. So really, you could add an additional 4 daily flights between Seoul and Tokyo!
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Surrenr From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 92 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1261 times:
I live in Taipei and I fly to Hong Kong every month. I've been on China Airlines A300, 747, A340, EVA 747, 330, 767, Cathey Pacific 747, A300, and 777. All widebodies and almost every half hour a flight goes to Hong Kong
ZK-NBT From New Zealand, joined Oct 2000, 5020 posts, RR: 12 Reply 11, posted (8 years 1 month 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1145 times:
Quoting Surrenr (Reply 10): Cathey Pacific 747, A300, and 777
CX A300, could of fooled me.
Heres AKL-SYD
NZ 5 daily mainly A320 now plus 1-2 763's daily
QF 5 daily mainly 763 plus 743's on peak days
TG daily 744 reducing though, as TG go for AKL-BKK non-stop
EK daily A345 upgraded to a 773ER soon, to increase capacity
LAN 4 weekly A343, daily in 2006
AR 4 weekly A342
PH few weekly 738's
Still only totals about 13 daily flights though.
QF and DHL also operate dedicated Freighter services aswell.
Even AKL-BNE see's alot of airlines mostly widebodies same with AKL-MEL!
Swissgabe From Switzerland, joined Jan 2000, 5265 posts, RR: 37 Reply 12, posted (8 years 1 month 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1087 times:
HOONS90
I think IR does only have traffic rights on the ICN-NRT sector but not the other way around. Do you know if they offer any special market fares for the trip to Tokyo?
I also would like to mention, that there are another 4 flights between Seoul and Tokyo operating GMP-HND vv.
JL 747
KE 744 (just flew GMP-HND on them)
OZ 767
NH 763
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MAS777 From United Kingdom, joined Jul 1999, 2916 posts, RR: 6 Reply 13, posted (8 years 1 month 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1059 times:
Kuala Lumpur and Singapore also have numerous widebodies on this very short segment. Both MAS and SIA operate A330/332s (and 737s) and 777s on this busy sector. During school and public holidays - many flights are switched to be operated by 747s and extra flights are also usually laid on.
Apart from MH and SQ, Japan Airlines, Air India, SriLankan, Air Mauritius, Indian Airlines and soon Qatar Airways also operate this route. Air New Zealand and Qantas have also both operated 767s on this sector in the past - whilst BA had a weekly 747 during the early 1980s.
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