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U.S. Department of Transportation Finalizes Selection of U.S. Airlines and Cities for New Tokyo Haneda Routes

Friday, August 9, 2019

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today issued a final decision selecting four U.S. airlines to provide a total of 12 new daily services to Tokyo’s downtown Haneda airport.  The flights will begin as early as March 2020.

The Department’s decision allocates the 12 new daytime Haneda services as follows:

  • American Airlines: Dallas/Fort Worth; Los Angeles
  • Delta Air Lines: Seattle; Detroit; Atlanta; Portland, Ore.; Honolulu
  • Hawaiian Airlines: Honolulu
  • United Airlines: Newark, N.J.; Chicago O’Hare; Washington-Dulles; Los Angeles. 

Today’s decision finalizes the Department’s tentative decision announced on May 16, 2019.

On January 25, 2019, delegations from the United States and Japan tentatively committed to amending the U.S.-Japan aviation agreement to provide for up to 12 additional daily daytime opportunities for U.S.-carrier operations at Tokyo’s in-town Haneda Airport.  DOT expects that the amendment will enter into force in time to permit the newly available U.S.-carrier services to begin with the start of the 2020 summer traffic season and in time for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.  DOT launched the proceeding in February 2019 to award the new opportunities and invited interested U.S. carriers to apply for allocation of the 12 anticipated newly available daytime Haneda slots.

Prior to 2019, the most recent amendment to the U.S.-Japan aviation agreement was reached in 2016, and provided for five U.S. carrier daytime Haneda flights, and one U.S. carrier nighttime/early morning Haneda flight.  The existing daytime Haneda opportunities are allocated as follows:  1) one to American for Los Angeles-Haneda service; 2) two to Delta for Los Angeles-Haneda and Minneapolis/St. Paul-Haneda service; 3) one to Hawaiian for Honolulu-Haneda service; and 4) one to United for San Francisco-Haneda service.  The sole nighttime Haneda opportunity is allocated to Hawaiian for service between Haneda and Honolulu (four times per week), and Haneda and Kona, Hawaii (three times per week).

Interested parties may read the Department’s decision and view the other publicly available documents at regulations.gov, Docket DOT-OST-2019-0014.

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