All Nippon Airways Co. is targeting overseas customers as competition in the domestic market intensifies, the airline's president, Shinichiro Ito, said Thursday.
At a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Ito said the arrival of its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner will help ANA become Asia's No. 1 carrier. ANA, which in 2004 became the first airline to order the Dreamliner from Boeing Co., last month became the first customer to receive the state-of-the-art aircraft, whose delivery was delayed by more than three years.
ANA's recent establishment of two low-cost carriers, Peach Aviation Ltd. and AirAsia Japan Co., is also part of its efforts to land foreign customers, especially in Asia, a market that is considered to have rich potential, Ito said.
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