<p>Departure concourse, with some aircraft in the distance.
</p><p>Asia is densely populated, so widebodies tend to fly even short routes. Taiwan's EVA Air has sent two widebodies in, in fact, despite a flight distance just over an hour from Taipei.
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There is also a familiar sight (for me, anyway) of a United Airlines plane. Still in the 1993 Battleship Gray paint, it had come in from Vietnam and will continue to San Francisco as Flight 862. United's Vietnam service, first by a US airline since the 1975 fall of Saigon, initially operated with a 747 that would otherwise sit overnight in Hong Kong, but upon the 2010 Continental Airlines merger, has switched over to a Continental Micronesia Boeing 737.
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