United Airlines recently filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation for a total of six daily nonstop flights to Tokyo Haneda Airport from six U.S. airports\u2014the Newark Liberty International Airport, Chicago O\u2019Hare International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and Guam\u2019s A.B. Won Pat International Airport.<\/p>\n
Pending completion of an aviation agreement between the U.S. and Japanese governments later this year, and slots awarded by DOT, the flights are expected to begin service by the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n
Together, the flights from five U.S. mainland hub cities and Guam will connect Tokyo Haneda with 112 U.S. airports, representing approximately two thirds of U.S.-Tokyo demand, or more than three million annual Tokyo bookings. With United\u2019s proposed routes representing five of the six largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. mainland and a combined population of nearly 56 million, the new flights requested in this proceeding will provide consumers with more choices and more convenient options when selecting Tokyo Haneda for their travel plans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf awarded by the DOT, these new nonstop flights would expand United\u2019s best-in-class Japan route network to better meet demand from U.S. consumers and businesses,\u201d said United Airlines president Scott Kirby. \u201cTokyo is a hub of 21st century global commerce and innovation and one of the world\u2019s most popular tourist destinations. Today\u2019s filing demonstrates United\u2019s unparalleled commitment to helping more Americans travel between our nation and Japan\u2019s capital city. Our proposed flights to Tokyo Haneda will offer an unrivaled experience and maximize choice and convenience for our customers traveling between the United States and Tokyo for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n
United\u2019s proposed daily flights from Newark\/New York, Los Angeles and Guam would supplement the airline\u2019s existing daily flights between those hubs and Tokyo\u2019s Narita International Airport, while United would shift existing daily nonstop Chicago, Washington D.C. and Houston flights from Narita to Haneda.<\/p>\n
United\u2019s application will also support American businesses and help grow the U.S. economy by offering direct flights from key business, government and cultural hubs where demand for flights to Haneda, the closest airport to central Tokyo, is the highest. With these new flights in place, United would provide Haneda service from:<\/p>\n
The largest market for travel demand between the U.S. mainland and Tokyo (Los Angeles);<\/p>\n
The two largest markets for travel demand between the East Coast and Tokyo (Newark\/New York and Washington, D.C.);<\/p>\n
The two largest markets for travel demand between the central U.S. and Tokyo (Chicago and Houston); and<\/p>\n
Guam, a market with significant travel demand from a Japanese tourist base that is critical to the island\u2019s tourism industry, economy and job market.<\/p>\n
United\u2019s proposal would help realize the full potential of these new routes for U.S. consumers and businesses by expanding United\u2019s broad-based and end-to-end network between the United States and Japan. United\u2019s proposed flights to Haneda would allow U.S. consumers to make connections to 37 points in Japan via United\u2019s joint venture partner All Nippon Airways, strengthening United\u2019s existing comprehensive network when combined with nonstop or single-connection service from 112 U.S. airports.<\/p>\n
United has proven its long-term commitment to Tokyo as a key gateway in Asia, serving Tokyo from 100 percent of its U.S. hubs. United also serves 31 markets in the Asia\/Pacific region, more than any other U.S. carrier, and has successfully launched 11 new nonstop flights from the U.S. mainland to destinations throughout the Asia\/Pacific region since 2014.<\/p>\n
United\u2019s application is in response to the U.S. DOT instituting a competitive route proceeding to allocate slot pairs, with today\u2019s application filed under DOT proceeding # DOT-OST-2019-0014.<\/p>\n
For more information about United\u2019s bid, visit UnitedToHaneda.com. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" United Airlines recently filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation for a total…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":296922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[320],"class_list":["post-294503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}