Seven countries land Haneda airport slots ahead of Tokyo Olympics english.kyodonews.net

KYODO NEWS - 12 hours ago - 17:48 | Lifestyle, All, JapanSeven countries including China, Russia and Australia have won 26 of the 50 new international slots created at Tokyo's Haneda airport in the run-up to next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games, transport ministry officials said Monday.
Finland, India, Italy and Turkey have also been handed slots, alongside one region, Scandinavia.
Airlines will decide which cities they will fly to, according to the officials at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
New flight paths over central Tokyo will be introduced in the spring of 2020, as the government plans to increase the number of international flight slots from about 60,000 to 99,000 before the Tokyo Games.
Located about 15 kilometers from central Tokyo, Haneda was the world's fifth-busiest airport in terms of total passenger traffic in 2018, according to the Airports Council International.