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Old Aug 1, 2019, 12:40 pm
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Originally Posted by rylan
Its become pretty obvious that DL doesn't know how to handle the Asian market. Dumped NRT, dropped almost all other connection/intra-asia routes, and are relying on their joint venture for KE for almost everything. Also as I mentioned HND is garbage for connections and doesn't even have a DL lounge, so I don't see how DL is expecting to have sufficient O/D traffic to maintain 7 US markets to Tokyo.
Obviously I'm not an expert on this, but it was reported in the news that DL's motivation for going to HND was its proximity to Tokyo.
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