Originally Posted by
HkCaGu
Delta announces complete abandonment of SPN and ROR. SPN is now cut off from Japan. (Guam has JAL.) UA's monopoly on Guam is now expanded to the CNMI. Cape Air's TWO little planes are now the lifeline for the passport-less. How or if will UA expand?
It would seem Korean tourism has supplanted Japanese in Saipan and Micronesia more broadly. SPN has a fair amount of Korean LCC presence. Chinese tourism has grown, too.
It's a far cry from ~20-25 years ago when Japanese tourism to Guam/CNMI was a massive moneymaker for CO, with comparatively extensive 727/747/DC-10 service to both GUM and SPN.