About two-thirds of the airline tickets sold for transPacific flights are purchased in Asia.

Besides its usefulness on transpacific flights, for a time Northwest also flew 747s on its busiest domestic routes.

The first transpacific flight had already taken place, twice over.

For training, many of the transpacific flights carried a second crew.

When Miles returned to the table, they exchanged the usual chitchat on the rigors of the transpacific flight.

It has more transpacific flights than any other airport in Canada.

Midway was a convenient refueling stop on transpacific flights, and was also an important stop for Navy ships.

Henderson Field functions as an emergency diversion point runway for transpacific flights.

Being near the center of the Pacific Ocean it was a stop for most transpacific flights.

With the advent of long range aircraft most transpacific flights no longer need to stop at Honolulu.