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Anchorage seems a more likely stopover for most Pacific routes?
by jessaustin 6y ago
Anchorage seems a more likely stopover for most Pacific routes?
- kortilla 6y agoAbsolutely. To expand on this a bit, the great circle route between something like Hong Kong and Seattle is a leisurely flight up the Canadian coast, along Alaska, down it’s Archipelago, by Russia, Japan, and Korea. At no point do you come anywhere near Hawaii. https://www.greatcirclemapper.net/en/great-circle-mapper.html?route=KSEA-VHHH&aircraft=&speed= https://www.greatcirclemapper.net/en/great-circle-mapper.htm... Anchorage is a very busy airport for cargo routes for this reason. Traveling to Hawaii is a more dangerous than to something like Japan from mainland US due to the distance from land being much greater. Never look at Mercator projections when thinking about flights, they will mislead greatly.
- bobthepanda 6y agoFair enough. Though honestly even 4500nm is not very far for transpacific; from ANC Hong Kong and Manila are barely within/outside range, Bangkok and Singapore are out of the question.