{"id":248524,"date":"2025-07-09T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-happened-to-delta-air-lines-tokyo-hub\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:00:16","slug":"what-happened-to-delta-air-lines-tokyo-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=248524","title":{"rendered":"What Happened To Delta Air Lines&#8217; Tokyo Hub?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines once held an extensive network to and from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259815\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tokyo-narita\/\"  >Tokyo Narita Airport<\/a><\/span>. Its Asian base had connections from Tokyo to destinations across Asia, and many more to the United States. Delta inherited the Tokyo hub from its predecessor, Northwest. But eventually, the airline decided to shelve this Asian hub due to ongoing changes in international conditions and the preference for point-to-point flying, while also shifting its focus to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"293333\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/incheon-international-airport\/\"  >Incheon International Airport<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo Narita became an integral part of its Asian network through its acquisition of Northwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,565,1030,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-delta-air-lines","category-tokyo-narita-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248525,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248524\/revisions\/248525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}