Delta Air Lines seeks to compete at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Delta Air Lines filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation to offer customers nonstop service between Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and Seattle, Detroit, Los Angeles and Honolulu. Delta is seeking to compete at Tokyo’s centrally located Haneda airport, which is slated to be re-opened to U.S. carriers for the first time since 1978 under a proposed new aviation treaty with Japan. The importance of Delta’s application is underscored by the fact that Delta’s SkyTeam alliance is the only global network without the ability to compete at Haneda.