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What is the point of US Carriers' Tokyo hub?
After all, if the people they gather there for the most part are headed to other (Asian) destinations anyway from the US, then couldn't they simply have the international flights originate at a US hub? For instance, in the case of Delta, they could have a bunch of international departures all leaving Atlanta (or perhaps Detroit) to say Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Manila, and so forth and skipping a stop.
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- potatochipLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Tokyo is a good city for a hub since it has a lot of passengers who would either fly there or board from that city. As for why Delta does not fly directly to Beijing or other cities, reasons could be there is not enough demand, they did not get rights to operate a flight to one of the cities, aircraft does not have the range to reach a particular city. I do not see there being enough demand for passengers to fly from Atlanta to Taipei, Taiwan. If the Delta has a hub in Tokyo, people from Atlanta can connect to Taiwan and people who are in Tokyo can board as well so the flight is fuller and the airline would not lose money on that route.
- Harold RLv 41 decade ago
So that they can offer more choices
From USA, many cities with direct flights to tokyo. Then, there is typically a partner airline based there that offers connections to tons of cities that would not support direct flights to the USA. For example, singapore is too far from atlanta for a direct. So all flights from the USA go to tokyo, and then people from each flight can connect onto a Japan airlines flight to tokyo.
