In August the US Department of Transportation formally granted US airlines 12 additional daytime slots for Tokyo Haneda. This is Tokyo’s most convenient airport, and there was quite some competition for these slots, as American, Delta, Hawaiian, and United, all wanted to launch flights to this airport. So far both Delta and United have revealed…
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per this tweet from JONNYC,
AA is pulling out of ORD -NRT, cutting LAX-NRT, and cutting one of the DFW-NRT
https://mobile.twitter.com/xJonNYC/status/1177217364951228416
@Lucky I'm surprised you haven't written about the American flight that stranded people in Lima for 3 days. Saw it on FT yesterday. I know there are lots of cases that are similar but that one was absolutely insane in terms of how badly AA handled it
Jonnyc ‘s tweet shows that only 1 Dfw-nrt will remain, the other is being replaced by Dfw-hnd. The new lax-hnd replaces lax-nrt, so no more lax-nrt. And that ord-nrt is being discontinued.
I posted that JonNYC tweeted the changes - that DFW-NRT will lose one frequency, that LAX-NRT and ORD-NRT are going away. All that will be left are DFW-NRT (1 flight), DFW-HND (one flight), and LAX-HND (2 flights). Why have you deleted this post?
@Peter that’s more of a current events article. There are many similar stories going on at the moment. Increased capacity to Haneda is much more important.
Back to the topic of Narita. American still has a flight from Chicago to Narita.
One of AA's DFW-NRT flights will probably be cut given that JAL also has a daily 787-9 flight from there. I don't know how long the 4x daily flights will last. Also, I have a ticket booked in June for the Olympics from DFW to NRT. Hopefully I can switch it to the new flight and apply a SWU to get AA First 🙂
@Ted, AA did not get the Las Vegas slot so there is no direct flight from LAS to HND.
I took an AA LAX-Haneda flight years ago that had a late night departure. First time I slept on a flight going to Asia from the US.
The early morning HND arrival is really nice if you are traveling on a tight schedule. I frequently want to spend as much of the week as possible in Tokyo, while spending the weekend at home in the US. With most Japan flights, that means leaving Monday morning, arriving Tuesday evening, and returning on Friday, so only two and a half days in Tokyo. With an overnight from LAX, it's possible to leave just about anywhere in the US Sunday evening, arrive first thing Tuesday morning, and get three and a half days in Tokyo before heading back on Friday. ANA was previously the only airline that offered this scheduling option and it was crazy expensive, so hopefully competition from AA will make it easier to afford.
First Delta’s dismantling of the NRT hub. Now AA cancels ORD NRT service. All the flights I took as a kid are disappearing.
Not much of a loss with much nicer experience on JAL and ANA 🙂
Years ago did AA mileage run with great First Class fare out of LAX via ORD Ron DFW with positioning from/to DCA-LAX. Spent my full 24 hours BDay in Air or plane side lounges. Showers at O’Hare. Super views of arctic mountains glaciers.
Got a pretty Japanese decorated nut ramekin 🙂
Great news! I prefer Haneda much more than Narita. Is to get a room near Haneda for early flights. Narita is haul to get to from Tokyo.
Here is hoping that AA can get into other Japanese cities!
Cool. This all makes sense to me. Tokyo redeveloped Haneda specifically to appeal to business travelers. Biz travelers are more likely to pay for F and J seats. So it makes sense they'd use the 300ER on that route.
Here's a question: I wonder if they'll pull any of the 300ER's off of one of the HKG routes and redeploy it elsewhere? Actually, can they even do that (i.e. do others planes in their fleet have the range for DFW or LAX to HKG)? If so, it might make sense, give that demand for travel to HK is down so significantly right now. And they only have like 20 of these birds, so I'm sure they want to follow the market.
Oh great
First JFK and now ORD. I love how American is giving me less options to Tokyo, it's either going to be LAX or DFW. I thought those 787s would make the flights viable, it surprises me that AA hasn't tried JFK-NRT with the 787s or maybe trying the former US Airways hubs instead.
The next sound you hear will be AA locking the doors on its Narita Admirals Club. Truly one of the best AC’s in the system. Ugh.
@ Bill n DC - except you cant use SWU on JL, or GPU on NH (full fare YB only), i guess you enjoy flying 14 hours in Y, as good as JL and NH go, you are still flying Y, you wont get 55" of legroom or horizontal flat seat.