What do you guys think are some of the most unique/weird/special routes airlines fly?
Examples:
Singapore Airlines: Singapore to Manchester to Houston.
China Southern Guangzhou to Vancouver to Mexico City
Azores Airlines: Terceira to Oakland.
Hainan Airlines: Beijing to Tijuana to Mexico City.
United Airlines: San Francisco to Chengdu
Air France: Miami to Pointe-a-Pitre/Port-au-Prince & Atlanta to Pointe-a-Pitre.
American Airlines Philadelphia to Bologna.
United Airlines: Newark to Palermo.
American Airlines: Chicago to Krakow
There’s definitely many other unique routes, other than these fifth-freedom and P2P routes. What other airline routes do you think are special and stand out to you?
Although this route ended, Korean Air used to fly an A330 between Los Angeles and SĂŁo Paulo I believe, which I always thought was weird.
Some other weird routes are like the 20-minute flights from San Francisco to other cities in California like Santa Rosa and Fresno. These flights sometimes even spend more time on the ground taxiing to runway 1L/R at SFO than in the air!
Most of these are airlines connecting through cities they aren’t big in, but what’s so weird about that? It increases global connectivity, and allows previously uneconomical routes to be launched…
Also seems like quite a few people here are underestimating the size of some foreign cities, even some cities you may have never heard of are actually quite large, and tourism is two ways…