Originally Posted by Fanjet

Actually, wouldn't those first two points work in AA's favor? Why give more slot pairs to the carriers which have more flights to Tokyo already. And the DOT is under no pressure to give DL two daytime slot pairs. They abused their SEA-HND authority to the point of having it revoked. In fact, wasn't it orginally DTW-HND?

Hasn't it already been established that the Japanese authorities are going to award ANA four daytime slot pairs and JAL only two? And if that is the case, I doubt that JAL would sacrafice one of them on HNL.