American Airlines has confirmed it has not made any changes in its flight schedules from the US to Tokyo as the crisis in Japan deepens. American operates two flights daily from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport to Tokyo’s Narita Airport, one each from Chicago and Los Angeles, and one flight from New York’s JFK Airport to Narita and another to Tokyo Haneda.
An airline spokesman said it was seeing its busiest traffic coming out of Japan and that flights to the country were not empty: “More than 75 percent of our scheduled customers have been flying as usual,” the spokesman said.
Other airlines have adjusted their Tokyo flight plans. Delta has suspended new flights to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport from next week, while Singapore Airlines has cut plans to operate an A380 on a flight from Singapore to Tokyo to Los Angeles, instead keeping the current Boeing 747 in place.