Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 1507712)

American gives up on Haneda ... plans to overfly. So much for the vaunted tie up with JAL. Glad we kept our Billion bucks.

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American Airlines plans to discontinue to service from New York Kennedy to the close-in Tokyo Haneda International Airport on Dec. 1.

“While we are disappointed to end this route, our Tokyo/Haneda flight has been quite unprofitable, largely because we are allowed to operate only during severely restricted hours, limiting our customers’ options for connecting flights to and from other Asian markets,” American’s chief commercial officer Virasb Vahidi said in a special Jetwire to employees.

“Our decision to finally cancel the service followed multiple unsuccessful attempts to persuade the U.S. and Japanese governments to reach an agreement to eliminate all schedule constraints at Tokyo/Haneda,” he said.

UPDATE: AA chairman and CEO Tom Horton didn’t sound optimistic about the chances of American returning to Haneda anytime soon.

“If there were an opportunity to get better slot times at Haneda, we’d consider going back to it,” Horton said. “But right now, it was not a profitable flight and we couldn’t tolerate that any longer, and we fought that very hard.”

In addition, one of American’s JFK-London Heathrow flights will be turned over to Oneworld partner British Airways while AA finishes converting its Boeing 777-200 fleet to all lie-flat seats in its premium sections.

The news comes as part of a message to announce that American planned to launch service to Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1507752)

I take it there is no way to go tit for tit with Japan and its carriers and say slots to the US and HND will be restricted to unprofitable times in kind.

Originally Posted by boog123 (Post 1507730)

267 per month

Originally Posted by tsquare (Post 1507754)

If the US government gave a damn about American business there would be. Problem is though... they don't. Most other nations have an airline policy that protects their national airlines... not here. Cabotage is on the horizon my friend, and you can send your thank you notes to guys like Chuck Shumer.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1507752)

I take it there is no way to go tit for tit ...

Originally Posted by hoserpilot (Post 1507234)

So I found out what Carl has been up to. Apparently he's been scouting for new-hire flight attendants. Good job Carl!!




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