Agreed, except for New York. How is this logical in light of JAL joining oneworld?

"...American’s flights from New York’s Kennedy airport offer “greater public benefits” than Continental’s from Newark because they would boost alliance competition, Kurland wrote.

Delta’s SkyTeam and United and Continental’s Star alliances “hold significant positions” in the U.S.-Asia market compared with American’s Oneworld, the decision found..."

I guess the DOT is chronologically challenged, and can only handle things in the present tense. Technically, they are correct that we "hold" a significant position.

Now.

If they could see a few months into the future (the very future they're allowing in terms of the Japan Clopen Skies agreement), they would see that AMR/JAL will "hold" not just just a significant position in HND, but our... genitalia in their clenched fists as well.

The only thing that would work well for us, is if JAL and ANA merge. As we watch one of the other alliance gets squeezed, we could argue the remaining allinace is far too strong, and press for more HND access.