US DOT has finalized Tokyo Haneda slot allocations

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has finalized its allocation of Tokyo Haneda daytime slots awarded to local US carriers in July this year.

In a statement issued Friday, the Department reaffirmed its tentative decision to award the following carriers the following slots:

-American Airlines: one slot pair for its proposed Los Angeles Int'l-Haneda service;
-Hawaiian Airlines: one slot pair for its proposed Honolulu-Haneda service;
-United Airlines: one slot pair for its proposed San Francisco, CA-Haneda service;
-Delta Air Lines: two slot pairs for its proposed Los Angeles-Haneda and Minneapolis/St. Paul-Haneda services.

The DOT awarded Hawaiian Airlines the US's sole Haneda night-time slot in May. Hawaiian was the sole applicant to apply for the slot-pairing and plans to use it to operate a year-round service to Haneda from Honolulu (4x weekly) and Kona (3x weekly).

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Hawaiian B763 flight HA442 over Pacific Ocean, hydraulic problem

A Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767-300, registration N592HA performing flight HA-442 from Sapporo (Japan) to Honolulu,HI (USA) with 236 passengers and 12 crew, was enroute at FL330 over the Pacific Ocean about 800nm southeast of Sapporo when the crew decided to turn around and divert to Tokyo's Narita Airport due to a low hydraulic pressure indication. The aircraft landed safely on Narita's runway 16R about 2 hours later.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for 17.5 hours, then departed Tokyo resuming the flight and reached Honolulu with a delay of 20:45 hours.

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Hawaiian Airlines to operate daytime Tokyo-Haneda flights

Hawaiian Airlines has received tentative approval from the US department of transportation to shift its current daily flight between Honolulu and Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport into a coveted daytime schedule.

The new flights will begin on October 29th, 2016.

The tentative award follows a DOT ruling in May granting Hawaiian a night-time slot pair to provide daily service between Haneda and Kona three times weekly and Haneda and Honolulu four times weekly.

That service will launch on December 20th, 2016, giving Hawaiian Airlines two daily flights between Haneda and the Hawaiian Islands.

“We commend the US DOT for recognising both the success of our existing Haneda service and the immense value that Hawaiian provides to travellers and to our state’s economy,” said Mark Dunkerley, president and chief executive officer of Hawaiian Airlines.

“We believe that allowing us to arrive and depart earlier in the day will enhance our already popular Honolulu route.

“Combined with the additional capacity between Honolulu and Kona we will be able to fulfil the demand for a Hawai’i vacation from travellers coming from Japan’s most populous city while giving back to our community and all local businesses through increased tourism to Hawai’i.”

Hawai’i's largest and longest serving carrier was among the first three US airlines granted authority to operate at Tokyo’s Haneda airport in 2010.

For the last six years Hawaiian has successfully provided its daily night-time service between Tokyo and Honolulu, flying more passengers out of Haneda than any other US carrier.

Its service to Honolulu has added at least $941 million to the US gross domestic product, generated $564 million in direct spending and led to the creation of 2,337 new jobs.

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DOT gave approval to American, Delta, Hawaiian & United for daytime slots service to Tokyo Haneda

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has outlined its provisional allocation of Tokyo Haneda daytime slots to local carriers following submissions in April this year.

During bilateral talks in February this year, the DOT and the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLITT) agreed to increase the number of slot-pairings allocated to US carriers from the current four (all night-time), to six constituting five daytime slots (i.e. limited to use between 06h00L and 22h55L) and one night-time slot (i.e. limited to use between 22h00L and 06h55L), with effect from late-October of this year.

The DOT awarded Hawaiian Airlines the US's sole Haneda night-time slot in May. Hawaiian was the sole applicant to apply for the slot-pairing and plans to use it to operate a year-round service to Haneda from Honolulu (4x weekly) and Kona (3x weekly).

As it stands, the DOT has provisionally awarded the five daytime slots as follows:

-American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth): one slot pair for its proposed Los Angeles Int'l-Haneda service;

-Hawaiian Airlines (HA, Honolulu): one slot pair for its proposed Honolulu-Haneda service; 

-United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare): one slot pair for its proposed San Francisco, CA-Haneda service;

-Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson): two slot pairs for its proposed Los Angeles-Haneda and Minneapolis/St. Paul-Haneda services.

Given its recent stand-off with Delta concerning its underexploitation of Haneda slots for its seasonal Seattle Tacoma Int'l service, the DOT has proposed to add a condition to Delta's Minneapolis award. 

The Department says that should Delta significantly deviate from its original proposal (daily service using B767-300(ER) and/or B777-200(ER) equipment), its Minneapolis authority will automatically terminate with that of the backup carrier’s automatically instating.

The DOT has selected American's daily Dallas/Fort Worth-Tokyo Haneda proposal as a backup to Delta’s primary award for Minneapolis-Haneda service. 

Parties have until July 30 to submit their objections.

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Hawaiian A332 near Tokyo, hydraulic leak, 8 tyres deflated on landing

A Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A330-200, registration N395HA performing flight HA-458 from Tokyo Haneda (Japan) to Honolulu,HI (USA) with 293 people on board, was enroute at FL370 about 260nm east of Toyko when the crew turned the aircraft around and returned to Tokyo due to a hydraulic system leak. On approach to Tokyo's Haneda Airport the crew performed an alternate gear extension and landed on Haneda's runway 34R about 80 minutes after departure. During the rollout 8 main tyres deflated disabling the aircraft on the runway. The runway was closed, the passengers disembarked via stairs onto the runway and were bussed to the terminal.

The aircraft remained on the runway for about 8 hours until the tyres were replaced and the aircraft could be towed to the apron.

The flight was cancelled.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground about 30 hours after landing.

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Hawaiian B763 over Pacific, smoke in cabin

A Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767-300, registration N588HA performing flight HA-19 from Sacramento,CA to Honolulu,HI (USA), was enroute over the Pacific Ocean when the crew reported smoke in the cabin and decided to divert to Hilo,HI (USA), where the aircraft landed safely.

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Airlines with the best on-time performance in U.S

U.S. airlines posted a better on-time rate for May, and complaints dropped compared with the same month last year.

The Department of Transportation said Thursday that 83.4 percent of domestic flights arrived on time in May, up from 80.5 percent a year earlier although down from April. The figures cover flights on the 12 largest airlines.

Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines had the best on-time ratings, while Spirit Airlines and Virgin America had the worst.

Complaints are down 24 percent from a year earlier. Air travelers filed 1,134 complaints with the government in May.

1. Hawaiian Airlines, 92.1 percent

2. Alaska Airlines, 90.3 percent

3. Delta Air Lines, 88.6 percent

4. SkyWest, 85.1 percent

5. United Airlines, 83.7 percent

6. ExpressJet, 83.5 percent

7. Southwest Airlines, 81.2 percent

8. JetBlue Airways, 80.7 percent

9. American Airlines, 80.7 percent

10. Frontier Airlines, 80.2 percent

11. Virgin America, 76.7 percent

12. Spirit Airlines, 76.4 percent

Total for all reporting airlines: 83.4 percent

Hawaiian Airlines starts Haneda-Kona flights in December

Hawaiian Airlines has said that it will launch direct regular flights linking Haneda Airport with Kona International Airport at Keahole on the Island of Hawaii on Dec. 21.

The flights will be the first between Japan and Kona since Japan Airlines ended it service linking Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture with Kona in 2010.

The island, the largest of the Hawaiian islands, is rich in nature.

It has the Kilauea volcano, which is popular with Japanese tourists. On the route, the company will use Airbus A330-200 aircraft with 294 seats. The first flight from Kona will depart on Dec. 20.

In aviation talks in February, Japan and the United States agreed to allow airlines of each country to operate five round-trip flights using Haneda per day in daytime hours and one in late night and early morning hours.

Before that, four round-trip flights between Haneda and the United States per day were operated by each side, only in late night and early morning hours.

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