Delta Air Lines will resume flying from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Tokyo — but with a twist.
Aviacionline reports today that Delta is returning to Tokyo with regularly scheduled service to Haneda!
Didn’t Delta Fly Between HNL and Tokyo?
The airline flew between HNL and Japan’s capital before COVID-19 struck. Also around that time, Delta moved its operations from Narita Airport (NRT) to Haneda. Delta used both NRT and Haneda (HND) for some time.
The HNL-NRT route ended when the pandemic really started.
When Do HNL – HND Delta Flights Start?
Operations start on Friday, April 1. (I checked on Delta.com just to ensure this wasn’t a preemptive April Fool’s Day joke. Flights between HNL and HND are indeed available for purchase.)
Delta 767-300ERs will fly the routes, at least to start.
Service will initially operate only five days a week. But Aviacionline’s Sebastián Polito notes daily Delta operations between the two airports should commence in November.
For starters, though, the HNL-HND line operates:
- Sundays
- Tuesdays
- Thursdays
- Fridays
- Saturdays
Delta 180 departs Tokyo Haneda at 9:55 PM and arrives in Honolulu at 10:40 AM the same day.
Delta 181 departs Honolulu at 4:10 PM and arrives at Tokyo Haneda the next day at 8:00 PM.
Perhaps this will bring some good mileage run opportunities to HND when (and if…) COVID restrictions ease up!
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It will be interesting to see what kind of service is provided. Before the pandemic, the Delta One experience from Tokyo-Narita to Honolulu and vice versa was stripped down and not the full Delta One experience one gets going from mainland to Asia, mainland to Europe or vice versa. Same with the old intra-Asia flights. Delta One between Tokyo and Manila and Tokyo and Singapore was greatly stripped down.
Hopefully this means they’ll put a 767 back on the LAX-HNL route to rotate the plane that flies HNL-HND. Not sure if there are any 767s currently flying to Hawaii, ATL, MSP, and SLC-HNL are all on the A330 so I don’t think there are any 767s flying to HNL.
Plenty of 757 action from the West Coast cities (*eye roll*).