Why does Asiana Airlines has no direct flight from Las Vegas to Manila unlike Korean Air?
Based from Korean Air's website, it's Las Vegas-Seoul-Manila while I personally tried flying with Asiana Airlines which was Las Vegas-Los Angeles-Seoul-Manila.
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The answer is as simple as Asiana having decided that it is not a route that they can be competitive or make money on. EDIT: The answer that Halo gives regarding cabotage is completely irrelevant in this scenario. Yes, Asiana cannot offer non-stop service between LAS and MNL because of cabotage, but that isn't what the question asked. The question had to do with why they don't offer *direct* service, which is not the same thing as non-stop. Direct service simply means that the flight may have one or more stops along the route to those cities, but if these are stops, all of the flight numbers will be the same for every flight along the way. If Asiana wanted to have direct service between LAS and MNL, they could do it without violating cabotage -- they would simply have to market a pair of flights with the same flight number -- one of the flights from Las Vegas to Seoul, and the other one from Seoul to Manila. The passenger buying the ticket LAS-MNL would see a single flight number for the entire journey with one stop in Seoul. This is the definition of a direct flight, and would not violate cabotage. Hence, my answer stands as correct, and Halo's as irrelevant and incorrect. Given the definition of a "direct flight" I mentioned above, and which is also repeated in the first link below, cabotage doesn't stop Asiana from offering direct service from LAS to MNL, because they could very easily market flights with the same flight number that meet the definition of a direct flight. They simply don't do it because, for whatever reason, they don't believe it is profitable to operate flights to and from Las Vegas. Common sense would also indicate that, if the cabotage argument applied to Asiana as a Korean airline company, it would also apply to Korean Air as well, given that they, too, are a Korean airline company. I'd also note, however, that based on the information on Korean Air's timetable at the second link below, that they don't actually sell direct service from LAS to MNL, either. They do have direct service from LAS to Seoul -- KE flight 006 departs LAS and stops in LAX before continuing to Korea -- but none of the flights from Seoul to Manila are sold as KE006, meaning that it is not direct service the whole way through. (Again, this doesn't mean that they can't do it -- they'd simply have to change the flight number for one of the flights to MNL to KE006, change the times so that it coincides with the flight arrival from LAX, and they would have this direct service.)
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Very simple they are not allowed to fly Las Vegas direct to Manila, As Asiana Airline is a Korean airline they are not allowed to fly a route that does not start or end in Korea. this is know as cabotage. They can fly Las Vegas to Korea then change flight and fly on to Manila however there will never be a direct flight. It has nothing to do with money making they just simple are not allowed.
Title : Why does Asiana Airlines has no direct flight from Las Vegas to Manila unlike Korean Air
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