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Japan, Tokyo – Japanese and U.S. airlines will be allocated about half of the roughly 50 slots to be created at the capital’s Haneda airport in the run-up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games next year, transport minister Keiichi Ishii said Tuesday.
Japanese airlines will be given 12 daily slots and U.S. airlines will be given another 12, Ishii said, while indicating that the remainder will be allocated in accordance with the government target of attracting 40 million foreign travelers to Japan in 2020.
Japan plans to introduce new flight paths over central Tokyo in the spring of 2020 to create the new arrival and departure slots at Haneda, which was already the world’s fourth busiest airport in terms of total passenger traffic in 2017, according to Airports Council International.
Located about 15 kilometers from central Tokyo, Haneda airport resumed hosting international flights in 2010 and has rapidly expanded services in recent years under the government policy of promoting tourism.
Source and full English article: Japan Today
https://japantoday.com/category/national/24-of-50-new-slots-at-Haneda-to-be-given-to-Japanese-U.S.-airlines
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