Press Release
JAL Domestic Schedule Changes for April 2006
Tokyo, Monday January 30, 2006: Japan Airlines (JAL) today filed new domestic route schedules including new and expanded routes for April 2006 with the Japanese Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport.
JAL will operate more aircraft fitted with class J seats on business travel routes, such as Haneda-Osaka (Itami) and Tokyo-Fukuoka and will remodel aircraft to provide more class J seats, which have proved very popular with travelers..
Class J is JAL's domestic business class and uses a seat specially designed for the JAL Group by GK Industrial Design Company of Japan, designers of JAL's award-winning international business class “Shell Flat Seat''.
It features 95 cm seat pitch (regular economy seat pitch is 79 cm); seat width is 47 cm (regular domestic economy domestic economy seat width 44 cm) and the armrest width is 18 cm (regular 6 cm).
The basis of the schedules filed is to make better use of Haneda slots and to strengthen the domestic network, not only at Haneda but also at regional airports.
At Haneda, the focus of the new schedule is to increase flights to cities in Shikoku, the fourth largest of Japan's four main islands, and Kyushu.
JAL also plans to operate larger aircraft on routes to and from Chubu International Airport, and increase flights on some other routes, such as from Kansai International.
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Haneda Routes |
Change (all flights round trip basis) |
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HANEDA-MIYAZAKI (Kyushu) |
Increase from 3 daily flights to 4 |
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HANEDA-KOCHI (Shikoku) |
Increase from 3 daily flights to 4 |
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HANEDA-TAKAMATSU (Shikoku) |
Increase from 4 daily flights to 5 |
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HANEDA-TOKUSHIMA (Shikoku) |
Increase from 4 daily flights to 6 (from 4/14) |
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HANEDA-SAPPORO (Hokkaido) |
Reduce from 21 daily flights to 19 (20 daily flights until 4/13) |
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HANEDA-TOYAMA |
Route suspension: Reduce from 2 daily flights to 0. |
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Other Routes |
Change (all flights round trip basis) |
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CHUBU-SENDAI (JAL EXPRESS operation) |
Increase from 2 to 3 flights daily |
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CHUBU-KAGOSHIMA |
Increase from 3 to 4 flights daily |
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(OSAKA) KANSAI-SAPPORO |
Increase from 3 to 4 flights daily |
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(OSAKA) KANSAI-HANAMAKI |
New flight. Once daily |
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HAKODATE-OKUSHIRI (Hokkaido Air System operation) |
New flight. Once daily |
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OSAKA (ITAMI)-HANAMAKI |
Reduce from 3 to 2 flights daily |
Aircraft capacity changes to reflect increased demand include:
- Haneda-Okinawa: Of 10 daily flights, 9 will be operated by large aircraft (B747 and B747-400)
- Haneda-Hiroshima: Of 7 daily flights, 2 will be operated by larger aircraft (B777)
- Chubu-Okinawa: 2 flights will operated by B747-400
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For further information contact: geoffrey.tudor@jal.com / stephen.pearlman@jal.com
Telephone: 81-3-5460-3109 / Fax: 81-3-5769-6487/ www.jal.com/en/corporate/
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| Japan Dom Schedule Apr 06.pdf |
