Air shipping from any island in APAC is tricky, speaking as someone on an island in APAC. There are only X number of flights and sometimes things go to places y

Air shipping from any island in APAC is tricky, speaking as someone on an island in APAC. There are only X number of flights and sometimes things go to places you wouldn't expect based on whatever prioritization rules drive FedEx's optimization algorithm that day. This costs my lab and our hospital dearly, so I sort of sympathize. But I also know a FedEx pilot who flew this area for decades and explained their end of the problem as well. It's a hard optimization problem. For example: it may have gone to Alaska, but that's actually closer to Japan and China than any of their other hubs.