United has urged the U.S. Transportation Department to award it nighttime slots at Tokyo Haneda Airport that are being relinquished by Hawaiian Airlines.
American Airlines has received tentative approval to launch nonstop service between New York JFK and Haneda Airport, while Hawaiian is stopping night flights to the Tokyo airport.
All 367 passengers and 12 crew members on board the A350 managed to escape the burning aircraft, but five of the six on board the Coast Guard aircraft died.
The daily flights Tokyo Haneda, to be operated from Oct. 28 with a Boeing 767-300ER, restart a route Delta Air Lines flew before the COVID-19 pandemic.