DL 287 is listed as Seoul South Korea to Shanghai.
Delta 287
DAL287 / DL287
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CANCELLED
ICN
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
PVG
SHANGHAI, CHINA
departing from GATE 255
Incheon Int’l - ICN
arriving at GATE 69
Shanghai Pudong Int’l - PVG
SATURDAY 25-DEC-2021
05:10AM KST
SATURDAY 25-DEC-2021
06:10AM CST
I was curious as to why it could not have gone to Honolulu.
It was way the hell north on the great circle route — I imagine HNL would have been a longer trip. Also a lot of pissed of passengers to stick them in HNL, at least Sea-Tac gives you some options and is a delta base IIRC
It is just kinky — I see what you re saying...it looks as 287 originates in Sea-TAC and arrives ICN then continues on to the next stop —
But 9 hours and over 50% of the way there it must have been something remarkable.
>I was curious as to why it could not have gone to Honolulu.
Do a search on “great circle”. It’s the shortest distance between two points on the surface of a sphere. Hawaii is way out of the way.