As part of an amendment to the U.S.-Japan aviation agreement, and in time for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has proposed four U.S. airlines to make daytime flights to Tokyo’s Haneda airport.
Those flights could begin as early as summer 2020.
Following a proceeding to determine interested U.S. carriers for 12 open daytime slots, the USDOT has tentatively agreed to award them to American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines and United Airlines. For American, flights would operate out of Dallas/Fort Worth and Los Angeles. Delta would fly from Seattle; Detroit; Atlanta; Portland, Ore.; and Honolulu, form which Hawaiian Airlines would also fly. United would fly from Newark, N.J.; Chicago O’Hare; Washington-Dulles; and Los Angeles.
Haneda airport is an in-town airport for downtown Tokyo. Numerous flights from American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines and United Airlines already serviced the site by day, and only Hawaiian is currently allowed to fly there by night.
Other parties may still object to the proposed flight structure. Those are due with the USDOT by May 30, to be followed by party responses by June 10.