Haneda slots update

Travel Vision has an update report on the Haneda slots for international flights. According to the report, China could be allocated as much as 20 flights per day! But the most interesting part is there's a comment regarding US DOT's preference of who they want to allocate their 4 slots to. Below are the destination allocation so far

Day time flights (total of 40 pairs of slot available):
- 12 to Korea
- 4 to Hong Kong
- 8 to Taiwan
- Remaining 16 are still in negotiation with China.

Night time flights (total of 40 pairs of slot available):
- 4 to Korea
- 4 to Hong Kong
- 4 to Singapore
- 2 to Malaysia
- 2 to Thailand
- 8 to the US
- 2 to Canada
- 4 to Germany
- 2 to Netherlands
- 2 to France
- 2 to the UK
- Remaining 4 flights are still in negotiation with China

The day time flights are meant to provide short range shuttle service in Asia, that's why you see tones of flights assigned to countries close to Japan (and there are range restrictions on these day time flights too). For the night time flights, it is still unclear which European carriers are interested in operating the flights. However, London and Frankfurt are the two main European hubs for Japan Airlines and ANA's partners respectively. So those flights are expected.

The report also mentions US DOT is leaning towards assigning their 4 slots to flights to Hawaii and Guam. So this means HA and CO apparently have a upper hands on those 4 slots. But the report does not cite its source.

The above slots are going to be evenly divided between Japanese and the foreign carriers. So half of it will go to Japanese carriers. JAL and ANA should roughly get 25% each. HOWEVER, LCC Skymark has expressed interests in operating international flights from Haneda too. And JAL doesn't really have a good argument to acquire more slots than ANA. So Skymark's slots might come at JAL's expense.

So assuming JAL will get 25% of the slots, which destinations/countries would you pick? ANA has already announced they are going to move the HKG flight to a day time flight from October. So this means there are two slots available at night time. But I don't know if JAL is interested in increasing the number of HKG-HND red eye flights...

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