{"id":1242,"date":"2016-05-17T04:42:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2016-05-17T04:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T09:43:11","slug":"hawaiian-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Airlines lands first slot pair at Tokyo Haneda Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hawaiian Airlines<\/strong> lands first slot pair awarded at Tokyo Haneda Airport.\u00a0The Department of Transportation announced the award last Friday May 13, giving Hawaiian Airlines the rights to operate\u00a0an overnight route from Tokyo that will be split\u00a0between\u00a0\u00a0Honolulu (4 times a week) and Kona, Hawaii (3 times a week).\u00a0The awarding of the slot pair\u00a0came over objections from both\u00a0Delta Air Lines and United airlines. Those airlines\u00a0argued that all\u00a0slots should be awarded at the same time.\u00a0The DOT still has\u00a0five daytime slot pairs to award at Haneda Airport, which is much closer to downtown Tokyo that the Narita International Airport. Narita is where the vast majority of international flights operate from.\u00a0U.S. air carriers had been\u00a0restricted to night time departures and arrivals at Haneda Airport previously, but a\u00a0new aviation\u00a0agreement between the U.S. and Japanese governments opened up 5 new daytime slots at Haneda Airport, plus 1 new additional night time slot. The U.S. announced the awarding of that additional night time slot to Hawaiian Airlines early, as it was the only airline that actually applied for it. American, Delta, and United all applied for the new day time slots.<\/p>\n

American Airlines, which already\u00a0flies an overnight route from Los Angeles International Airport to Tokyo Haneda Airport, has requested the rights to fly daytime routes to Haneda from both DFW International Airport and LAX International Airport. There are currently also two additional\u00a0daily flights to Tokyo Narita Airport operated by American Airlines’ joint venture partner Japan Airlines.\u00a0American,\u00a0Delta, Hawaiian, and United have submitted a total of eight route proposals for the five daytime slots to be awarded at Haneda Airport, with the DOT to\u00a0determine who will get the slot pairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hawaiian Airlines faces challenges in Kona<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Hawaiian Airlines already had one night time slot pair at Haneda Airport, which now gives\u00a0Hawaiian Airlines two over night “redeye” flights. The over night flights work\u00a0well on routes to\u00a0Hawaii better than to the mainland\u00a0due to the difference in time zones and flight duration. However, there are challenges ahead for the airlines plans for 3 flights a week to operate to Kona, on the big island of Hawaii. The\u00a0Kona Airport does not currently have the customs enforcement infrastructure required.\u00a0The state of Hawaii is working on getting the\u00a0Kona Airport facility up to date\u00a0with the federal requirements for secure customs. It is possible\u00a0if the facility is not ready in time that a temporary exemption could\u00a0be made, or\u00a0that customs could be handled prior to departure\u00a0at Haneda Airport in Japan.Homeland Security has been very reluctant to make any customs exceptions in the past, so Kona\u00a0and Hawaii are under a tight deadline to get the airport facilities completed.<\/p>\n

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Image from\u00a0www.hawaiianairlines.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hawaiian Airlines lands first slot pair awarded at Tokyo Haneda Airport.\u00a0The Department of Transportation announced the award last Friday May 13, giving Hawaiian Airlines the rights to operate\u00a0an overnight route from Tokyo that will be split\u00a0between\u00a0\u00a0Honolulu (4 times a week) and Kona, Hawaii (3 times a week).\u00a0The awarding of the slot pair\u00a0came over objections from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[292,289,290,291,90],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-haneda-airport","tag-hawaiian-airlines","tag-slot","tag-slots","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}