United Airlines beats out Hawaiian for available Tokyo Haneda slot pair

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United Airlines has tentatively won US government approval to operate a daily flight between San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and Tokyo Haneda Airport (HND).

US airlines are allowed to operate four daily round-trip flights to/from Haneda, Tokyo’s downtown airport that began handling international flights in 2010. The new United SFO-HND route, tentatively approved by the US Department of Transportation (DOT), would replace American Airlines’ New York JFK-HND service, which American dropped in December 2013.

United beat out Hawaiian Airlines for the available HND slot pair; Hawaiian had sought to operate a daily service between Kona, Hawaii and HND. The other three US roundtrip flights to HND are operated by Hawaiian from Honolulu and by Delta Air Lines from Los Angeles and Seattle. Delta originally operated a Detroit-HND service but moved it to Seattle.

DOT said in a statement it “determined that United’s San Francisco-Haneda service proposal would provide the best use of the one available opportunity. DOT tentatively found that United’s proposal would introduce a new US carrier at Haneda and would promote competition by giving business and leisure travelers an additional choice for connecting service to Haneda via United’s well-established San Francisco hub.”

Any objections to DOT’s tentative awarding of the HND slot pair to United must be submitted to DOT by March 10.

 

[Pelush]

Se si deve andare nella zona sud di Tokio HND e' comodo, altrimenti con il nuovo treno della Keisei NRT é distante uguale

 

[East End Ave]

progetti di espansione anche x NRT...

 

[Jighen]

Se si deve andare nella zona sud di Tokio HND e' comodo, altrimenti con il nuovo treno della Keisei NRT é distante uguale

Da Minato-ku in giù e poi se si è ad ovest è molto più comono HND, comunque da Hamamatsucho con il Rapid monorail si raggiunge HND in 13min con 470Yen.

 

[BAlorMXP]

Sempre tutto fermo a Narita?

 

[Pelush]

io ho sempre avuto alberghi dalle parti di ikeburo/shinjuky/nippori quindi da hammatshucho averi dovoto farmi quasi un ora di yamamote (da spararsi nei ....)

 

[maclover]

io ho sempre avuto alberghi dalle parti di ikeburo/shinjuky/nippori quindi da hammatshucho averi dovoto farmi quasi un ora di yamamote (da spararsi nei ....)

Da Hamamatsucho, Ueno/Nippori sono a 15', Ikebukuro è invece 30': quando si usa la Yamanote, il trucco è prenderla dal verso giusto

Sotto la stazione di Hamamatsucho, c'è la fermata Daimon dove passa la metro E che ti porta a Shinjuku in 15'

 

[East End Ave]

SAN FRANCISCO - United Airlines today announced it will add Tokyo's Haneda Airport to its route network, with daily nonstop service from San Francisco effective Oct. 26, 2014, subject to government approval.
Haneda Airport will be the tenth trans-Pacific destination that United serves nonstop from San Francisco, and the third new Asia-Pacific airport - also including Taipei and Chengdu - for United this year.

"We are excited about adding Haneda Airport to our global route network," said Jim Compton, United's vice chairman and chief revenue officer. "By providing nonstop service from our San Francisco hub to both Tokyo airports, we will maximize choice and convenience for customers traveling from across the Americas to Tokyo, and to points beyond on our joint-venture partner ANA."

Flight 875 will depart San Francisco International Airport daily at 6:35 p.m., arriving at Haneda Airport at 10:05 p.m. the following day (all times local). On the return, flight 876 will depart Haneda daily at 12:05 a.m., arriving in San Francisco at 5:15 p.m. the previous day, after crossing the International Date Line. Flying times will be approximately 11 hours, 30 minutes westbound and 9 hours, 10 minutes eastbound.

The flight schedules enable customers to use convenient public transportation between Haneda Airport and central Tokyo and Yokohama.

Connecting Flights
United customers traveling on the new Haneda flights will be able to make one-stop connections at the San Francisco hub to and from 28 cities throughout North America and beyond. In addition, the new service will provide connections at Haneda on the extensive network of United's joint-venture partner ANA to other international destinations, including Bangkok and Singapore.

With the introduction of the San Francisco - Tokyo/Haneda service, United will operate once-daily service between San Francisco and Tokyo's Narita International Airport, rather than the twice-daily service currently offered. The airline also operates daily service to Tokyo/Narita from its hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and Washington.