Originally Posted by JimInOhio

UA was awarded four HND routes in 2019 and used three of them (ORD, SFO, LAX) to move flights from NRT (UA abandoned ORD-NRT). Only EWR was additive. UA also requested IAH-HND and GUM-HND but didn't get them. As you noted, they chose to give up Honolulu - Tokyo altogether and it sure looks like they would have let NH handle all IAH-NRT traffic (just like ORD-NRT) except NH got the IAH-HND route instead of UA. Additionally, UA didn't apply for DEN-HND and I'm guessing that's because NH doesn't serve DEN at all so can't handle the onward connections from NRT.

So, yes, you're right that UA still flies to NRT from five US airports but would they if they had greater access to HND?