An interesting diversion I would not mind (United to Pago Pago)

[jis]

United flight LAX - SYD diverted to Pago Pago due to an oil leak detected in an engine of the 777.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/united-...-island-stranded-customers-given-hotels-tours
We did divert once on one of my SFO - SYD flights to Nadi, Fiji, for topping up fuel in the face of excessive head wind. But that was a planned diversion. We knew that was going to happen before we left SFO. The aircraft was a 747-400, and the stop in Fiji was just a tad less than two hours and we did not have to leave the plane.

 

[Maglev]

Jis, it was a 787. The replacement plane was flown from Sidney, with another flight canceled.

I was in the transit lounge in Pago Pago for a stopover on a South Pacific Island Airways 707 flight from Honolulu to Papeete. On the return flight, which was direct PPT-HNL, there was some kind of delay after the plane was loaded. They shut off the air supply and all the passengers passed out; nobody complained. I remember waking when the air supply came on. Stephen King exploits a similar event (all the passengers' passing out due to no fresh air) in a short horror story.

Here's a SPIA 707 at HNL:

 

[jis]

Jis, it was a 787. The replacement plane was flown from Sidney, with another flight canceled.

Yeah, I know. It was the plane in which we diverted to Fiji that was a 747, not this one. United does not have any 747s any more.