Hawaiian Airlines announces bid for new slots at Tokyo Haneda

Hawaiian Airlines submitted a bid for new slots at Tokyo Haneda International Thursday in order to launch 3 daily flights from Honolulu. In its application to the US DoT, the carrier proposed it be allocated 3 of the 12 new daytime slots that Japan has tentatively agreed to grant to US carriers. The carrier launched service to Haneda in 2010. Since then, as Hawaiian Airlines pointed out it its application, it has added nonstop flights from Honolulu to Sapporo, Osaka, and Tokyo/Narita, expanded its Honolulu to Haneda service, and introduced routes from Kona to Haneda. Currently, Hawaiian Airlines operates a total of 31 weekly flights between Japan and Hawaii, including 14% between Haneda and Hawaii. <br/>