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Old Mar 28, 2016, 10:38 pm
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Originally Posted by Longboater

With the move to daytime slots, not sure if AA will continue LAX-NRT. JonNYC said AA was going to end LAX-NRT some time this year. Daytime LAX-HND makes LAX-NRT redundant, especially with AA adding Asia flights out of LAX. Maybe an upgauge to a 77W to capture as much high yielding traffic into TYO? Probably a better use of the aircraft than having it burn cash on flights to GRU. And if AA is granted a second HND flight, what happens to AA's NRT operation? If they receive DFW-HND, would AA keep ORD-NRT or just hand it over to JAL and end NRT operations altogether? AA seems to be content at the moment allowing JAL handle JFK-NRT twice a day.
AA has two daily DFW NRT, so one additional slot is not enough to end the NRT operations from DFW. Would it make sense to split the two, or more sense to let ORD go to HND?
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