Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
This is hard to look up, particularly because it seems almost none of the Asian airlines publish route maps on their websites.
In particular I am curious about single airlines that offer routes from US to Europe, Europe to Asia, and Asia to US transpacific flights. The only one I know of is Singapore Airlines, which has a JFK-FRA flight being their sole US-Europe leg. It does seem unlikely but I thought I would ask.
SQ also flies IAH to MAN
Air New Zealand also flies from Auckland to London from the US West Coast.
Missed Gardyloo's posts. My apologies.
My bad, apparently the direct Paris-Tahiti is a single flight number covering the whole Paris-LAX-Tahiti route that does a fuel stop in LAX. (And since Tahiti is a French territory, it's allowed without fifth freedom fuss)
Fifth freedom rights and a desire to protect home airlines likely block many of the attempts to do that kind of round the world service. I can only think of a handful of fifth freedom that the USA allows like the aforementioned JFK-Frankfurt, Air New Zealand's Aukland to London by way of a refueling stop in LAX and the LAX-Dublin Ethiopian flies.
Turns out there are a few more here, which might help piece together more RTW routings
Singapore Airlines has just announced that they'll be flying nonstop from Singapore to Seattle starting next September.
Yeah I read about that. This will add to their current US nonstops to SIN from EWR, LAX, and SFO, and their other US routes (JFK-FRA, IAH-MAN, and several west coast routes to HKG and NRT)
I noticed that the nonstop EWR-SIN is depicted as transpacific on the map that I saw. So the only transatlantics I guess are JFK-FRA and IAH-MAN, at least from the US. I also just realized the nonstop from EWR is only premium economy and up, so it might be worth it for our family since the price is only moderately higher than the routing through FRA.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nn2036
Plenty of airlines fly to both US coasts too.
Yeah but that's not what I was curious about. It's about flying transpacific and transatlantic. Many foreign carriers may just go to both coasts from one direction. Really only the Asian or Australian carriers are in a position to do both, and even fewer would have a stopover in another continent.
I noticed that the nonstop EWR-SIN is depicted as transpacific on the map that I saw. So the only transatlantics I guess are JFK-FRA and IAH-MAN, at least from the US. I also just realized the nonstop from EWR is only premium economy and up, so it might be worth it for our family since the price is only moderately higher than the routing through FRA.
EWR-SIN is definitely not a transpacific flight — you can check the actual route of each flight on flightaware and it’s typically something like EWR-Scotland-Black Sea-Gujarat-SIN.
EWR-SIN is definitely not a transpacific flight — you can check the actual route of each flight on flightaware and it’s typically something like EWR-Scotland-Black Sea-Gujarat-SIN.
You're right. Thanks for that...I was thinking that maybe I shouldn't trust that route map.
EWR-SIN is definitely not a transpacific flight — you can check the actual route of each flight on flightaware and it’s typically something like EWR-Scotland-Black Sea-Gujarat-SIN.
Thanks! Must have been what the creator of the route map was utilizing.
Quote:
Originally Posted by barneyg
Good point, so JFK-FRA-SIN-EWR on SQ metal does work.
True. Or even EWR-SIN-EWR counts too!
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.