AUPILOT,

Bottom line is that Delta, Ual, and Fdx(via Nwa, Pan am, and Flying Tigers) have special rights from post WW2. Unfair as it may seem, it's what happens when you start and lose a war. Tough ****! The NWA routes were ALL at HND until NRT opened and forced all international flights there. I think all Mr. Anderson is saying is, we'd like our old slots back, domo arigato! The Japanese want to change the game now. If we had a government that gave 2 ****s about our airlines or its employees they would play hardball and give the Japanese airlines notice that their landing slots are invalid in 30 days. There is another angle at play here too. Don't dismiss the fact that UAL and AA with their ANA and JAL JVs are probably lobbying behind/around the A4A and Delta to torpedo our operation. As things stand now that is the only thing they can do to slow Delta's operation pulling away from them. UAL is a cluster, and AA+LCC is going to be worse.