Sunday, March 7, 2010

Trash-Talking Erupts as U.S. Airlines Bid for Open Tokyo Routes


12:00 AM CST on Sunday, March 7, 2010

By TERRY MAXON / The Dallas Morning News
tmaxon@dallasnews.com

Five U.S. airlines have applied for the right to offer 11 flights a day from eight U.S. airports to Tokyo's Haneda International Airport, Asia's busiest airport.

The problem is that the U.S. Department of Transportation has only four flights to allocate.

As a result, the airlines have embarked on lengthy submissions of legal trash-talking, typical in international route cases.