His flight left Haneda for Beijing Capital International Airport at 11:17 am on December 25.
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The main carriers use Haneda, which is closer to the capital and cheaper.
Others have to land at Narita, clear customs and then fly to Haneda.
An excellent goal would be to fully open Haneda to international flights too.
Today Haneda handles domestic traffic, yet it could be reconverted for international flights.
The first flight landed at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sunday evening, local time, after a short flight from Sapporo in northern Japan.
Some 13, 000 people were stranded at the Narita airport, and 10, 000 were stuck at the Haneda airport, the news agency said.
These are the first new domestic carriers in 40 years and in March they received six slots at Tokyo's Haneda airport.
By 2:28 pm he was back on the tarmac at Haneda and at 3:06 was registering his return at the Imperial Palace.
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Foreign aviation circles have been pushing to re-internationalize Haneda, with some success.
One was former foreign minister Kakizawa Koji, who once organized a charter flight from Haneda to Hawaii to promote re-internationalization of the portal.
On Wednesday, ANA's flight NH 692 left Yamaguchi Ube in western Japan at 08:10 local time (23:10 GMT) and headed for Tokyo's Haneda airport.
Tokyo should look to its other airport, Haneda, for a solution.
It left Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Sunday morning with a team of All Nippon engineers, that airline's chairman, Shinichiro Ito, and Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner.
But Haneda is located just 14km south of city with taxi fares in the 7, 000 to 9, 000 yen range, vs 20, 000 to 25, 000 yen from Narita, located 60km away.
It left Tokyo's Haneda Airport on a sunny Sunday morning with a team of All Nippon engineers, that airline's chairman, Shinichiro Ito, and Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner.
Japan alone scored four airports in the top 20 (Tokyo Haneda, Central Japan, Tokyo Narita, and Kansai), China scored three ( Hong Kong International, Beijing Capital, and Shanghai Hongqiao).
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