Your assumption is based on players only hatching one at a time but regardless of how many you are hatching simultaneously distance still ends up being less. For sake of arguement assume an even distribution of eggs so 1/3 of eggs received are 10 km eggs you would be walking An average of 17 km per 10 km hatch vs 10 km per 10 km egg if you keep deleting other eggs to get them.
Honestly I just go gifts that will give me alolan eggs that are from different states ( US person here) otherwise Iâll just open the gifts when I have 9/9 eggs if theyâre from my state.
When I get an open egg spot, I open an international present to get a new egg. Then when that egg hatches, I trade it to collect the distance kms towards getting pilot badge.
All nine of my eggs are Alolan International. That will change once Gen 4 comes out, but there is nothing in current egg pool that helps me, so I stick with foreign eggs. Last trade I did with my son was like 8000 km for both of us.
They drop easily from the pokestops. Get the 9 and just open all the gifts for the day. No more alolan eggs. Still need a geodude and a vulpix⊠over 30 eggs hatched and not one of those.