The first flight landed at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sunday evening, local time, after a short flight from Sapporo in northern Japan.

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Some 13, 000 people were stranded at the Narita airport, and 10, 000 were stuck at the Haneda airport, the news agency said.

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These are the first new domestic carriers in 40 years and in March they received six slots at Tokyo's Haneda airport.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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For global tourism, foreign tourists overall to Japan rose 12.4% year on year to 635, 000 in November just as the new Haneda Airport facilities opened, and suddenly there was much easier access to international flights.

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Tokyo should look to its other airport, Haneda, for a solution.

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His flight left Haneda for Beijing Capital International Airport at 11:17 am on December 25.

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