MIA Continues Talking To All Nippon Airways About A Nonstop Flight To Tokyo
Miami International Airport is still pushing for the first nonstop flight to Asia.
This week, ANA Executive Vice President Toyoyuki Nagamine visited the airport and met with officials to discuss a potential nonstop passenger flight to Tokyo.
This is the second visit from representatives of ANA this year.
ANA owns Miami-based Pan Am International Flight Academy, which they purchased in 2013 for $140 million.
Honored to host EVP Toyoyuki Nagamine & team to discuss @iflymia based PanAm Intl Flight Acad and direct passenger service.@FlyANA_official pic.twitter.com/11DPmalArp
— Joe Napoli (@cos_mia) November 17, 2016
Honored to welcome @ANA_travel_info Exec. Vice President Toyoyuki Nagamine at MIA today. We hope you enjoy your stay. pic.twitter.com/Zupnn5uaC8
— Miami Int’l Airport (@iflymia) November 16, 2016
Previously: Japan’s Largest Airline Is Considering Adding A Miami-Tokyo Flight
Why ANA? Why not Japan Airlines? JAL is part on OneWorld. It makes sense for JAL but not so much for ANA.
Regardless, I hope one of them comes to MIA in the new future.
This has been the question of the decade. All three airlines (if you include American) have the aircraft that can make this possible – yet it still hasn’t happened. I think ANA, though not in OneWorld, may have the best chance in actually pulling through. I think American has been hesitant bc they rather feed traffic through DFW, though DFW will never come close to all the feed there is at MIA. JAL is probably the least likely of the three I think… but you never know.
you are correct….american funnels to jfk or dfw….delta dtw…atl…msp…and the west coast….all are very protective of asian route traffic…ana.is my bet for first to fly….
You are incorrect about AA funneling from JFK. AA has two flights to Tokyo per day from DFW, two each day from LAX (one to NRT and one to HND), and one from ORD, and they all go out full almost every day. AA is also building its DFW and LAX hubs as connecting hubs from Asia to S. America. (It just beat out Delta for LAX-PEK). If it wanted to fly MIA-NRT it would.
In ten years,by JP.
AA and other airlines need to pay attention to Miami. #Givemiamiachance
JAL isn’t financially stable at the moment. ANA looks promising for direct Tokyo flights.
AA needs to pay more attention to Miami, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any ads from AA for new MIA flights. #giveMIAaflighttoAsia