The flight until suspended, no longer made a stop at San Francisco and was flown on a Boeing 777-200ER instead of the 747-400. The airline resumed the route from Ho Chi Minh City to Hong Kong after its merger with Continental Airlines. United ended the route to San Francisco via Hong Kong on 30 October 2011. In 2009, the service UA 869 has resumed once again from San Francisco via Hong Kong International Airport. On 29 October 2006, this service was switched from San Francisco to Los Angeles with a stop in Hong Kong, operating as UA 867 (also using a 747–400). Flight UA 869, operated using a Boeing 747-400 landed at Ho Chi Minh City, the terminus of the flight that originated from San Francisco via Hong Kong.

airline to fly to Vietnam since Pan Am's last flight during the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. On 9 December 2004, United Airlines became the first U.S. Board of welcoming at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, 1967 Post-war era Continental Airlines operated up to 30 Boeing 707 military charters per week to and from Tan Son Nhut Airport during the 1968–74 period. Pan Am schedules from 1973 show that during the last days of South Vietnam, Boeing 747 service was being operated four times a week to San Francisco via Guam and Manila. Between 19, Tan Son Nhut Airport was one of the busiest military airbases in the world. Air Force and the Republic of Vietnam Air Force. During the Vietnam War (or Second Indochina War), Tan Son Nhut Air Base (then using the alternative spelling Tân Sơn Nhứt) was an important facility for both the U.S. aid, a 7,200-foot (2,190 m) runway had been built the airfield near Saigon became known as South Vietnam's principal international gateway. Tan Son Nhat International Airport has its origins in the early 1930s when the French colonial government constructed a small airport with unpaved runways, known as Tân Sơn Nhứt Airfield near the village of Tan Son Nhut.

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