[Paleo Conservative]

But look at the title of the thread. It says the 777-200LR has been certified to carry passengers around the world.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

C'mon!

"Around the world" is a figure of speech. If one says Hong Kong is "on the other side of the world" or "halfway around the world", does it REALLY matter if the flight went from Chicago due west to Hong Kong, or it flew over the North Pole to get to Hong Kong? In either case, the passengers still flew "around the world".

Second, if you want to buy stock in an airline that proposes to, e.g., take off from Orlando, FL and fly around the world and land back in Orlando, FL, be my guest. I don't think you will get many paying passengers to take that long, tiresome, boring trip, just to land smack back where they took off from. The airline food is not that good, and the movies suck also.

Personally, I don't see a market where a jet takes off, circles the globe, then drops its passengers off in the same place they took off from. If you want to buy stock in that airline, ping me; I will then buy some offsetting put options.