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Air New Zealand Re-Routes North American Flights So Crews Won’t Have To Overnight In LA Or San Francisco
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — California’s COVID-19 situation is so bad, Air New Zealand will re-route its North American flights so their crews can overnight in Honolulu, rather than Los Angeles or San Francisco. Starting Monday, all of Air New Zealand’s cargo flight crews traveling to the United States will overnight in Honolulu. Flight crews on the airline’s passenger flights will be routed via Honolulu starting on Feb. 2. The airline says one set of crews will fly between Hawaii and California,… (losangeles.cbslocal.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
A lot of airlines are doing the same thing. LAX to PVG has a crew swap in GUM so as not to lay over in China; ORD to PVG does the same in NRT. SFO to PVG changes crews in ICN.
Interested to know what airlines involved. Delta does several non stops to PVG from DTW and ATL
UAL is doing those routings on the 777. I think the 787 is doing CTU cargo runs out of ICN as well.
I meant to say LAX-HGK and ORD-HKG have the GUM and NRT stops doing cargo ops... SFO-ICN-PVG is a pax trip on the 777.
I meant to say LAX-HGK and ORD-HKG have the GUM and NRT stops doing cargo ops... SFO-ICN-PVG is a pax trip on the 777.
The AKL-HNL crew get a 3 day layover in HNL before doing the LAX return sectors. Then 3 days in HNL (in hotel isolation, so no fun) then back to AKL for 2 days iso.
Would one crew fly both legs, HNL to California and back? Can this be done within duty time limits? Or would they bring a second crew to fly the return to HNL? Presumably the crew or crews would wait on the plane in California while it is unloaded, serviced, reloaded.
I had the same question. Looks like about 5 hour legs so a minimum of 10 flying hours plus load and unload. I would estimate (no facts just estimate) it would be 2 crews of 2 pilots. Also interested if the crews fly all sectors or if they just do the HNL-LAX/SFO sectors
We go West Coast KOA and back with a crew of 3 so they could be doing that.