Delta Air Lines, American and Hawaiian are on track to get four new routes to Tokyo Haneda airport under a preliminary decision by the US Department of Transportation on Friday.
The tentative decision would give Hawaiian Airlines its first scheduled flights to Japan, and makes Delta — already the biggest US carrier to Asia — an even more dominant player over the Pacific.
Haneda has been off-limits to US carriers since 1978. It has mostly been a domestic airport, but it’s desirable for US carriers because it is closer to the center of Tokyo than Narita airport, which is already served by Delta, United and American.
The tentative order divvies up the right to take off and land once per day on flights between the approved cities.
It’s a big win for Hawaiian Airlines, which plans to fly from Honolulu. The department said it favored Hawaiian’s application because it would increase competition and be good for the Hawaiian economy.
Delta Air Lines Inc also came out well, getting permission to fly from Los Angeles and Detroit. Delta flies to Tokyo Narita from 11 cities, including a flight from Detroit.
However, the department said Delta’s plan to use large Boeing 747s would increase competition on the new routes. The more seats on a route, the less airlines can generally charge for them. Delta’s 747s seat 403 people compared with the Boeing 777s and 767s proposed by the other carriers, which seat roughly 250.
American Airlines, a unit of AMR Corp, would fly to Haneda airport from New York.
Left waiting at the gate were Continental Airlines Inc and UAL Corp’s United Airlines. They also applied for the Tokyo routes — United to fly from San Francisco, Continental from Newark and from Guam on its Continental Micronesia unit.
The department said it looked at the geography and competitive situations in choosing the winning airlines.
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