Considering politics in that region, it seems impossible to forecast what alliances with Korean or Chinese "partners" will stand the test of time. It seems premature to dismantle a hub like NRT. If we just enforced our contract, for a change, it seems that the company might have to downgauge as appropriate, AND continue the evolutionary path towards direct Asia flights, possibly with smaller, longer-range aircraft, i.e. some 737-900 E's and A321's instead of 757 intra-theater, less 747 feed and more A330's to NRT, a more A330-200's overflights, instead of 777's and 747's. Who knows what the company might do if left to work theough the various constraints? We don't, because we're already suggesting there is an easy button they can just push.

DPA, for a change, is actually right, even though they typically fumbled the execution, and their numbers on daily departures are off by a factor of 30.

So we have an apathetic group in the middle, overeager implementers and premature enablers on one side, and the grotesquely lobotomied DPA on the other.

What could possibly go wrong?