Originally Posted by
JimInOhio
Also, and quite unlike very large US metro areas, aren’t Nagoya and Osaka almost exclusively O/D for air traffic? I think of Japan as having only two hubs, both in or near Tokyo.
Originally Posted by
joejones
They have some limited hub functions but are >90% O&D.
The other issue with Osaka is the same split operation scenario between HND and NRT.
ITM (Osaka Itami) remains a decent domestic hub and I use it for connections in Japan but is far away from KIX which has all the international flights. Given the smaller population this only compounds the issue of not having enough domestic feed at KIX since the majority of domestic flights go to ITM.