<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by WebTraveler:
The more likely hope would be increased service to Newark on Continental (it is just rotten now) as well as a possible Memphis hub flight to Portland to connect to the Tokyo flight.</font>
This is straying from the topic, because it would be a 5+ hour connection from the NRT-PDX flight and I don't think it's even a NW codeshare, but in searching CO's online timetable it looks like they are running a second PDX-EWR non-stop starting 6/10 (CO585 and CO284 the other direction). Is this just a seasonal service expansion?