JAL may eliminate less popular Hawaii flights HONOLULU (AP) - Japan Airlines may eliminate flights to Hawaii from four regional airports in Japan, the airline said. The airline has had trouble making money on flights from Sendai, Niigata, Hiroshima and Sapporo, said Gilbert Kimura, JAL Hawaii sales manager. Kimura said he hasn't heard anything definite, but knows directors of the parent Japan Airlines System are looking at ways to cut losses. One way would be to trim flights out of the four regional airports, he said. Major routes from Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka likely would be maintained, Kimura said. Elimination of the flights from the regional airports likely would not come quickly because the regional governments would have to be consulted first, he said. JAL has six flights a week from Sapporo to Honolulu, four a week from Sendai to Honolulu, two a week in the winter from Niigata to Honolulu and two a week in the summer from Hiroshima to Honolulu. Japan Airlines said last week that it would increase flights from Tokyo and Osaka to Honolulu this summer. The airline said it would bring its Osaka-Honolulu service back up to its normal two flights a day, from one a day, will add a daily Tokyo-Honolulu flight, bringing service on that route to three a day. The airline operates about 70 flights to Hawaii each week. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Mas Site: www.tntisland.com/tntrecords/mas2003/ Site of the Week: http://www.carib-link.net/naparima/naps.html TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************