07-25-2015, 10:37 AM
(07-25-2015, 10:06 AM)BuildingScout Wrote:(07-25-2015, 09:37 AM)jamincan Wrote: San Francisco is unlikely; it's easier and cheaper to send passengers through mid-continental hubs like Chicago, Detroit or Denver. Chicago has the added benefit of being useful for a lot of southern destinations as well.
This would be true if SFO was a destination only. However it is also a hub. By my estimation there are somewhere between 15 to 40 daily trips from RoW with SFO as a destination, to which we need to add people connecting on to Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Hawaii, Philippines, and Australia. This can easily fill to capacity a CRJ200/LR every day of the week or a CRJ705 at 80-90%.
Neither aircraft you suggest has enough range. YKF-SFO is 1932nm, and you need to allow margin due to winds (which are not always favourable). CRJ200LR is closest, but at 2004nm of range you end up with only 72nm of margin, and that's simply not enough.
That aside, you would also be taking away traffic from the YKF-ORD route, which might (or might not) be a problem as well.
JFK or MIA would make much more sense, giving connections to the east coast and Europe/Latin America. And no problems with range.