Six US airlines and 13 cities will receive a total of 106 new weekly flights to Japan under a tentative agreement inked by the US and Japanese governments, following the signing of the new civil aviation bilateral in February.
US carriers gaining new rights are American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines, Northwest Airlines and Trans World Airlines.
Freight carriers Polar Air Cargo and United Parcel Service will also gain new operating flexibility under the tentative agreement, according to the US Department of Transportation. Final decisions on the awards were be made in late March.
American, Continental and Delta will receive 64 of the new routes. American will be able to provide seven weekly flights each between Chicago-Tokyo, New York-Toyko, Boston-Toyko, and Dallas-Osaka. Delta receives seven weekly flights each between Atlanta-Toyko, Portland-Osaka and Portland-Fukuoka, and one weekly Los Angeles-Toyko flight.
Continental is awarded seven weekly flights each between Newark-Tokyo and Houston-Tokyo. Continental and Northwest also receive 14 weekly codeshare flights between Detroit-Osaka, Detroit-Tokyo, San Francisco-Tokyo and Los Angeles-Tokyo.
TWA, one of the two new carriers in the US-Japan market, will get a daily St Louis-Tokyo service from June 1999. It will also get 14 weekly codeshare flights with Delta between Portland-Osaka, Portland-Nagoya, Portland-Fukuoka and Los Angeles-Tokyo. Hawaiian, the other new carrier, will get seven weekly flights between Maui and Tokyo from January 2000.
Source: Airline Business
