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Viewing cable 08TOKYO2272, HANEDA AIRPORT INTERNATIONALIZATION HEATS UP

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08TOKYO2272 2008-08-18 07:38 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Tokyo
VZCZCXRO2735
PP RUEHFK RUEHKSO RUEHNAG RUEHNH
DE RUEHKO #2272/01 2310738
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 180738Z AUG 08
FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6660
INFO RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 4948
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 2738
RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI 1078
RUEHKL/AMEMBASSY KUALA LUMPUR 1888
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 0938
RUEHFK/AMCONSUL FUKUOKA 9443
RUEHHK/AMCONSUL HONG KONG 6575
RUEHNAG/AMCONSUL NAGOYA 7596
RUEHNH/AMCONSUL NAHA 1805
RUEHOK/AMCONSUL OSAKA KOBE 3182
RUEHKSO/AMCONSUL SAPPORO 0023
RULSDMK/DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION WASHINGTON DC
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON DC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 TOKYO 002272 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/J, EEB/TRA FOR BYERLY 
USTR FOR BEEMAN 
DOT FOR GRETCH 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAIR EINV PGOV JA
SUBJECT: HANEDA AIRPORT INTERNATIONALIZATION HEATS UP 
 
REF: A. TOKYO 1432 
     B. TOKYO 24 
     C. TOKYO 1489 
 
1. (SBU) Summary: Japan has concluded its first agreements, 
with Malaysia and Korea, for international flights into 
Tokyo's Haneda Airport from 2010.  The agreement with Korea 
marks the first time the GOJ has allocated daytime slots at 
Haneda Airport for scheduled international flights under 
Japan's "Asia Gateway Initiative."  Executives from U.S. and 
Japanese carriers laud Haneda,s internationalization. U.S. 
carriers too would like increased access to Haneda, even if 
it means giving up slots at Narita where the GOJ moved 
international flights years ago.  The U.S. carriers believe 
they are at a competitive disadvantage compared to Japanese 
airlines and are concerned foreign carriers' access to Haneda 
may exacerbate the problem.  End Summary. 
 
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Japan,s Agreements with Malaysia and Korea 
------------------------------------------- 
 
2. (SBU) Consistent with an MLIT official,s statement in 
late July that Japan would begin negotiating Haneda Airport 
slots with Asia Gateway Initiative countries, Japan has 
concluded its first and second agreements for international 
scheduled passenger flights at Haneda Airport beginning in 
2010 after Haneda's expansion is complete. 
 
3. (U) In air talks July 24-25, Japan and Malaysia agreed to 
up to seven flights per week for each Japanese and Malaysian 
airline. 
 
4. (U) In talks August 12-13, Japan and Korea agreed to 12 
scheduled daytime flights per day between Korea,s Gimpo 
Airport and Haneda Airport.  Four of these flights per day 
could alternatively be operated between Haneda and Pusan. 
The agreement with Korea marks the first time MLIT has 
allocated daytime slots at Haneda Airport for international 
flights.  In addition, carriers from both countries can 
operate a total of four flights during nighttime hours (10pm 
) 7am).  Though the destinations of these flights are not 
yet finalized, Inchon is a probable one.  Currently, eight 
scheduled "charter" flights per day operate between Haneda 
and Gimpo. 
 
5. (U) The air talks follow JCAB,s July 23 meeting when 
three Tokyo area prefectures (Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa) 
agreed to the Fuyushiba Plan, which allocates 60,000 total 
slots (half daytime and half nighttime) to international 
flights at Haneda Airport when its expansion is complete in 
2010. 
 
--------------------------- 
Reaction from U.S. Carriers 
--------------------------- 
 
6. (SBU) Econoff spoke with executives from four U.S. 
carriers.  Two stated August 15 Haneda internationalization 
will negatively affect operations at Narita, and one 
indicated he would need to draw down at Narita for any flight 
he could fly out of Haneda.  He continued he would like to 
move his airline's entire operation to Haneda, but that his 
airline would "take what we can get."  Regarding a 
conversation he had with a GOJ official who said eventual 
U.S. carrier Haneda operations would be limited to nighttime 
and West Coast services, the airline executive believes the 
GOJ will have difficulty explaining opening daytime flights 
to other countries but not the U.S. 
 
7. (SBU) A third executive stated he is unhappy about Japan's 
agreement with Korea, calling it "another example of unfair 
practice against carriers, especially incumbent carriers that 
have also built up their presence over the years, invested 
heavily in Japan, forced to move to Narita and then later 
advised Haneda will be international yet we can,t move our 
 
TOKYO 00002272  002 OF 002 
 
 
operations back."  Executives from several U.S. carriers have 
reiterated in conversations with emboff that MLIT,s 
regulations favor Japanese carriers and are anti-competitive. 
 
 
--------------------------------------------- --- 
Japanese Carriers on Haneda Internationalization 
--------------------------------------------- --- 
 
8. (SBU) In a June 18 meeting with econoff, an All Nippon 
Airlines (ANA) executive stated Haneda Airport must be 
internationalized.  However, he believes the GOJ-planned 
30,000 slots are inadequate, and instead a 110,000-slot 
increase (more than half international) is more appropriate. 
He supports liberalization of all slots, without 
restrictions, and ideally, airlines could fly anywhere. 
However, Haneda cannot be internationalized overnight, he 
continued, and no matter how much negotiation takes place, 
restrictions cannot be lifted all at once.  Interestingly, he 
believes no U.S. airlines are interested to fly out of Haneda 
at this time. 
 
9. (SBU) A Japan Airlines (JAL) executive had told econoff in 
a July 31 meeting that capacity is too limited in the Tokyo 
metropolitan airports because flights cannot fly over densely 
populated Tokyo, and because Yokota airspace limits 
commercial airspace.  If Narita operated 24 hours a day, he 
added, it would be better, but complicated historical factors 
make this impossible.  Ideally, he said, domestic and 
international flights would all be concentrated out of one 
airport: Haneda.  However, he stated U.S. airlines hold 
nearly one-third of available slots and are leasing them out, 
so if U.S. airlines did not "abuse" their slots and instead 
returned some of them, the capacity problem would be 
alleviated somewhat.  (Comment: Conversely, a U.S. airline 
executive complained July 30 to econoff that Japanese 
airlines are flying smaller aircraft to take up more slots 
and keep competitors out.) 
SCHIEFFER