Originally Posted by
Longboater
Also, for US-Japan flying, reminder of the UA/ANA JV of revenue sharing. While some of those load factors are a bit on the low side, given the revenue sharing and price setting between US and Japan, UA is probably doing just fine. There is also a ton of extra capacity into TYO right now given the HND slot allocation and that is without AA starting up JFK-HND, which resumes at the end of June. The real sign of US-Japan flying of being down is check out the LF on SFO-KIX. (It is lower than every other Trans-Pacific destination except PPT.) Reminder that UA is the only airline to fly daily to KIX from the US mainland. JAL flies LAX-KIX five times weekly.
this...I am booked on the SFO-KIX flight (from IAH) in late June and have been monitoring the load factors on this flight, Until the last couple of days, plenty of empty seats on Polaris and PP and economy has been more than 50% unfilled. Maybe now that the summer has started this will change. Regardless, the pricing has stayed quite high for these dates, even when I looked at advanced purchase, and in in June/July, roundtrip economy is going for no less than $2100 rountrip.