ANA new destinations and Haneda services starting in S20
 

ANA just confirmed that it’s going to fly to Moscow Milan Stockholm and Istanbul starting in next years S20
https://www.ana.co.jp/group/en/pr/201911/20191119.html

Even better, a new SFO=HND flight and SJC=NRT moves to HND!

Capacity keeps building up on Nordics-Japan route with AY, SK, JL and now NH. I don't mind it at all.

JL is not adding capacity, they are moving the NRT flight to Haneda.. I think AY is also just moving one of their flights to Haneda and making it year round.

It is doubtful that SK has the long haul fleet to add Haneda to the existing Narita flight.

So really only ANA adding capacity

I meant carriers servicing Nordics-Japan in total with that list, not necessarily new capacity. But AY seems to be adding a little bit of new capacity on non-TYO destinations, CTS year-round and 2 more weekly flights to KIX.

When did CTS year round get announced? I have only seen two weekly for the winter season. But good for Finnair if they can make it work year round. Though two weekly is not much....

I guess I can forgive myself for not having see it before now.... :D

Announced today summer 2020 additions.

Haneda-San Jose
NH120Haneda (17:05）→San Jose（10:30）
NH119 San Jose（12:20）→Haneda (Next day 15:20）
*Narita-San Jose is suspended indefinitely.

Haneda-Seattle
NH118Haneda (21:00）→Seattle（14:10）
NH117 Seattle（16:40）→Haneda (Next day 19:00）
*Narita-Seattle is suspended indefinitely.

Haneda-Houston
NH114Haneda (10:20）→Houston（08:40）
NH113 Houston（13:10）→Haneda (Next day 17:00）
*Narita-Houston is suspended indefinitely.

Haneda-Washington DC
NH102Haneda (10:55）→Washington DC（10:35）
NH101 Washington DC（13:10）→Haneda (Next day 16:15）
*Narita-Washington DC is suspended indefinitely.

Haneda-Los Angeles
NH126Haneda (21:05）→Los Angeles（15:05）
NH125 Los Angeles（17:05）→Haneda (Next day 21:15）
*Narita-Los Angeles frequency is reduced

Haneda-New Delhi
NH837Haneda (10:10）→New Delhi（16:25）
NH838 New Delhi（18:30）→Haneda (Next day 05:55）
*Narita-New Delhi is suspended indefinitely.

Haneda-Ho Chi Minh
NH891Haneda (18:00）→Ho Chi Minh（22:35）
NH892 Ho Chi Minh（00:25）→Haneda（08:25）
*New route.

Narita－Ho Chi Minh
NH833 Narita（18:55）→Ho Chi Minh（23:30）
NH834 Ho Chi Minh（07:00）→Narita（15:00）
*NH831/NH832 is suspended indefinitely.

Narita－Hanoi
NH897 Narita（18:50）→Hanoi（22:20）
NH898 Hanoi（23:50）→Narita（Next day 07:00）
*New route. Haneda-Hanoi is suspended indefinitely.

https://www.ana.co.jp/group/en/pr/201911/20191119.html

This is interesting. Timely, as I'm looking to book award travel within the next few weeks!

So this is now ANA, United, American, and Delta (edit, and JAL) shifting from NRT to HND all at the same time. Why?

Articles go on about "well HND is closer to central Tokyo so this will be more convenient" - yeah, of course, but that's always been the case. Why all of a sudden this change?

The airspace is restricted compared to NRT because of the American military base nearby. Recently approval was granted to open up that airspace, so now more slots are available at HND.

Finally, ANA is starting flights to Istanbul and I'm very excited to try them for the first time.
I believe that the ANA schedule department would think about connections and not make the mistake that Chinese carriers did in IST, thinking only about O&D pax.

NH will be restricted from getting to close to Turkish airlines due to their joint venture with Lufthansa group

Out of interest, out of the 4 new European routes that NH will fly to, which do you think will do the best and which one will do the worst.
1.Best
2.
3.
4.worst

This is obvious, I was talking about connections from HND to China, Southeastern Asia, Hawaii, and Oceania.