Dennis, heres one that will put the kabosh on that one- try doing that with an almost full load of fuel pax and freight- aint gonna happen- you have to be mega-restricted on that type of route and i bet that airbus probably had about 19 press people and some airbus execs on it. Dennis Murphy <dmurphy4@houston.rr.com> wrote: Just a point of trivia..... When Airbus was first demoing the 340 to Lufthansa, they flew FRA-HNL-FRA several times to prove that it was a route that could be flown (7448 miles.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Kinniburgh" To: Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 1:28 PM Subject: Re: London - Honolulu > Thats correct... Direct service can include a change of aircraft and while > retaining the same flight number. > > > Scott SFO > Joe Pries Commercial Aviation Photography Serving the airline industry with quality photography AOL IM AIRLINE72 http://www.joepries.com --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online at Yahoo! Greetings.