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.