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U.S. carriers start battle over Haneda daytime slots
April 29th 2016
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has received proposals from American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines and United Airlines about their intended use of newly allocated daytime slot pairs at Tokyo’s downtown Haneda Airport, from October. Read More » A new ‘Open Skies’ deal brokered in February will bring the number of slots to twelve at the airport. The late night slots will be reduced from four to two and the ten daytime slots increased to 12. Japanese and U.S. carriers will then be given six slots each.
“Hawaiian [has] submitted its application for two of the six routes for U.S. carriers now able to serve Haneda. The first is to serve the Honolulu-Haneda route daily, as we do today, and the second is to split another daily service between frequencies from Haneda to Kona (thrice-weekly) and additional flights to Honolulu (four-weekly),” CEO, Mark Dunkerley, told a press conference. “With almost four out of every ten passengers that travel between the U.S. and Japan coming to Hawaii, we are hopeful the DOT will reward Hawaiian both of the routes it seeks,” Dunkerley said.
Dallas-headquartered American has requested two daytime slots for daily services from Fort Worth and Los Angeles, with the B777-200ER and B787-8, respectively.
Delta has applied for three daytime slots for daily B767-300ER/B777-200ER rotations from Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and its Atlanta home hub.
Chicago-based United Airlines has requested that its San Francisco night time slot to be retained and also has applied for a daily daytime slot for B777-200ER operations to Newark.
Currently, there are four take-off and landing slots for U.S. carriers at Haneda. In addition to the Hawaiian route, United operates a San Francisco-Haneda flight and Delta and American fly to Los Angeles.
The allotment for the Japanese carrier has been awarded. All Nippon Airways (ANA) has been given three day and one night slot and rival Japan Airlines (JAL) was granted two daytime slots. ANA is eventually expected to deploy its three-on-order A380s from Haneda to Hawaii.
