Originally Posted by sailingfun

US DOT awards Haneda slots:
First, they allowed all 4 carriers currently operating Haneda service at night the opportunity to continue. That’s absolutely the right decision, given that those airlines have invested money (marketing, operating losses) to establish those routes amidst incredibly bad flight schedules. Now, they get the benefit of operating more appealing times. For clarity, the existing flights are:

American Airlines (LAX)
Delta (LAX)
Hawaiian (HNL)
United (SFO)
Hawaiian was the only one who applied for a night-time slot and they were unsurprisingly awarded it.

That left just one more slot, which ultimately went to Delta to operate out of Minneapolis. As Seth notes, other applications such as United’s for Newark and American’s for DFW, were rejected in favor of the Minneapolis award.

https://airwaysmag.com/industry/us-c...t-allocations/