6/83 JAPAN VIOLATING AVIATION AGREEMENTS? Guam - Saipan - Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines of the US, is charging that Japan is not honoring its aviation agreements with the US. Under a 1980 agreement Continental Airlines was to be authorized to launched flights between Tokyo and Guam after Pan American World Airways abandoned its jumbo service on the route and the US Civil Aeronautics Board awarded 4 flights to Northwest and 3 flights a week to Continental Air Micronesia. As Continental wants to use smaller planes, not jumbo aircraft on the route, it should have 6 flights a week, Continental claims, but Japan has yet to approve the start of the service. Continental claims it is losing $9 million/year because of this. Japan Airlines does serve the route. Continental Airlines has flights between Tokyo and Guam via Saipan.

JAPAN LAWLETTER, June 1983. By Roderick Seeman