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JAL, Mitsubishi Estate and Kanematsu will join Tokyo Metropolitan Government-led ‘flying car’ project toward pilot operation in 2024. JAL will demonstrate taking-off and landing operations and seek feasible services.

ANA and JAL have received over four times more international flight bookings in this busiest summer ‘Bon’ period (August 6 to 16) than a year ago, particularly seeing considerable growths on Hawaii flights.

ANA, JAL and three regional airlines in Kyushu of Amakusa Airlines, Oriental Air Bridge and Japan Air Commuter have developed a joint demand-boosting campaign to give the three regional airlines’ tickets or local or original products.

Korea Air resumed two flights a week between Haneda and Gimpo (Seoul) with 737-900ER on June 26 2022, followed by ANA on July 1.

ANA, JAL, JR Tokai, JR East and Tokyo Metro is developing a joint tourism campaign ‘Welcome Back Tokyo,' offering gift opportunities on Instagram and Twitter.

ZIP AIR Tokyo, a JAL subsidiary LCC, will launch Narita-San Jose services in December 2022 as its second U.S. route, giving up ‘Z’ logo on the vertical tail probably because ‘Z’ is recognized as a symbol of Russian forces.

ZIP AIR TOKYO, JAL group’s LCC, will increase its Narita-Singapore service to five flights a week during this summer between July 16 and August 31.

JAL will resume three Narita-Kona, Hawaii flights a week and two Narita-Guam flights a week in August this year. The flights will be served for the first time in the past two years.

Tourism-related organizations, including Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) and Japan Travel and Tourism Association, ANA, JAL and JR Group together requested ease of travel restrictions to Tetsuo Saito, Minster of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

ANA and JAL considerably increased passengers and rose the load factors on both domestic and international flights for this year’s Golden Week holiday period.

JAL Group succeeded in increasing revenue and shrinking deficits considerably for FY2021 through its thorough cost reduction efforts and growth of the international cargo business. It has forecasted to end in the black for FY2022.

ANA and JAL have remarkably increased their international flight bookings for this coming Golden Week. JAL Hawaii flights have already been full on several days during the period.

ZIP AIR Tokyo, JAL Group LCC, will serve daily flights between Narita and Honolulu during this year’s summer vacation period to meet expected higher demand.

JAL flight subscription service ‘A New Style of Travel' with accommodation subscription service ‘HafH' was used by 37 years old on average, and the majority was office worker with a share of 68%. 75% traveled to unexpected destinations.

JAL will raise domestic flight airfares by 3% to 8% and also upgrade fares on a flight day for a year from April 15 2022 due to rise in fuel cost mainly.

JGC Holdings Corporation, REVO International, ANA and JAL, as leader companies, launched ‘ACT FOR SKY,’ a corporate group to aim to commercialize Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in Japan to establish a domestic supply chain for SAF from material purchase and manufacture to supply.

JAL Group announced better financial results for the first nine months of FY2021, boosted by well-recovery of domestic passenger demands and high international cargo operations.

JAL drew up the FY2021-FY2025 midterm management plan, for which one of business pillars is ‘ESG Strategy.’ Aiming at net zero emission in 2050, JAL is developing three arrows including expansion of flights using SAF.

ANA increased its domestic flight bookings by 12.3% year on year to 1,081,252 for 2021/22 New Year holiday period, and JAL up 64.8% year on year to 978,693.

JAL has started accepting vaccination record registration in addition to PCR test result on digital health certificate app ‘VeriFly’ for its flights from Japan to U.S.