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Northwest to suspend its Tokyo-NY flights
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Posted on Sep 09 2005
Northwest Airlines announced yesterday that it will indefinitely suspend its daily nonstop service from Tokyo’s Narita Airport to New York’s JFK Airport to due to the record-high cost of jet fuel.
“Northwest remains firmly committed to its Narita hub, an integral part of our global route network, and to serving travelers in the Tokyo-New York market,” said Phil Haan, executive vice president of international, alliances and information technology and chairman of NWA Cargo. “Unfortunately, the record-high cost of fuel, a challenge facing the entire airline industry, is severely affecting the financial viability of some routes and forcing us to make some difficult decisions.”
Northwest’s nonstop Tokyo-New York service will be discontinued beginning Oct. 1; however, the airline will continue to offer single connecting service Tokyo to New York area airports through its Detroit and Minneapolis/St. Paul hubs.
The airline is in the process of contacting customers or agencies who have booked customers to re-accommodate them on flights operated by Northwest or its SkyTeam alliance partners.
For additional assistance, customers and travel agents should contact Northwest Reservations at 1-800-447-4747.
The Boeing 747-400 aircraft dedicated to the Tokyo-New York flight will be redeployed to operate Northwest’s Tokyo-Los Angeles service, offering Northwest’s lie-flat World Business Class seat and in-flight entertainment system to the Tokyo-Los Angeles market.
All 16 of Northwest’s 747-400 aircraft are equipped with the airline’s lie-flat World Business Class seats, which offer 176 degrees of recline, more degrees of recline than any other U.S. airline’s competing product, as well as an array of innovative comforts and features. World Business Class customers also enjoy a state-of-the-art in-flight entertainment system not offered by any other U.S. carrier, featuring a wide variety of audio and video entertainment, all available on demand.
Northwest’s Tokyo-Los Angeles service is currently operated with a Boeing 747-200. (PR)
