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AIRLINES

Japan Times
WORLD
May 26, 2021
Airlines avoid Belarus as opposition says journalist was beaten
The moves came as international outrage mounted over Minsk forcing down a jetliner and arresting a dissident journalist on board.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 19, 2021
Japan Airlines said to plan yen bond as its yield premiums fall
Japan Airlines Co. is planning a yen bond sale next month, people familiar with the matter said, in what would be its first debt sale since March last year as its yield premiums fall.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
May 3, 2021
Hokkaido Shinkansen struggling amid competition from airlines and ferries
With other operators offering discounts during the coronavirus pandemic, JR Hokkaido is being urged to improve its discount system, too.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 30, 2021
Japan's ANA forecasts return to profit hoping vaccines will revive air travel
For the 12 months to March 2022, ANA forecast operating profit of u00a528 billion after a u00a5464.7 billion loss in the last business year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 26, 2021
Hong Kong-Singapore travel bubble set to start on May 26
Preparations for the travel corridor have been stop-start since an initial plan to open it last November was shelved after coronavirus cases picked up in Hong Kong.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2021
Business class opens to the masses as affordable refuge from COVID-19
Flush with cash and a record number of air miles after a year on the ground, leisure travelers are splurging on premium seats for their first trips back.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 15, 2021
Even as vaccine rollouts accelerate, global air travel still stuck way behind 2019 levels
Measuring seats on offer shows that carriers currently have some 62 million seats per week, well short of the 2019 benchmark of 106 million.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 12, 2021
Wealthy Japanese flying private in greater numbers, ANA says
Due in part to change in habits as a result of virus fears, ANA Holdings Inc.'s private jet charter business is expecting sales of u00a51 billion in the 2022 fiscal year.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 3, 2021
U.S. travel guidance eased as CDC says vaccinated people at low risk
The CDC said vaccinated individuals don't need a COVID-19 test and don't need to quarantine, when traveling domestically. They should still wear a mask and avoid crowds.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Mar 20, 2021
Europe's COVID-19 setbacks risk another summer travel washout
Europe's airlines and travel sector are bracing for a second lost summer, with rebound hopes increasingly challenged by a hobbled COVID-19 vaccine rollout, resurgent infections and new lockdowns.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 19, 2021
ANA sees global chip shortage as good cargo opportunity in 2021
The expects its cargo unit to receive a boost this year as planes loaded with semiconductors help accelerate deliveries to automakers and consumer-electronics manufacturers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 10, 2021
Dirt-cheap flights offered as airlines rebuild battered networks
Dirt-cheap fares are popping up from airlines brave enough to expand or start out amid the COVID-19 crisis, as they try to eke out sales and get a jump on competitors that have pared back operations.
South Korea's Yoon backs down after parliament rejects martial law
Soldiers try to enter the National Assembly building in Seoul, after South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday evening.
BOJ weighs case for first triple hike since Japan’s bubble burst
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda reiterated in an interview published Saturday that authorities will raise rates if the economy performs in line with projections.
Australian says romance scam tricked her into smuggling drugs into Japan
Donna Nelson says her life was turned upside down when she learned that the man she was falling for had tricked her into smuggling 2 kilograms of methamphetamine into Japan.
Jetstar Japan loses lawsuit over disciplinary action against cabin crew
Jetstar Japan has been ordered to pay back wages to two cabin crew members for the periods they were suspended.
Nomura CEO takes pay cut after former employee charged with attempted murder
Kentaro Okuda, CEO of Nomura Holdings, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
U.S. Space Force launches first unit in Japan
Activated on Wednesday, U.S. Space Forces Japan — a component similar to the one established at South Korea’s Osan Air Base in 2022 — will operate out of Yokota Air Base in the city of Fussa, western Tokyo, with a staff of about 10.
Can Japan's scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
Europe eyes 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine as possible peace deal option
A serviceman with the Ukrainian Army's 24th mechanized brigade fires a machine gun during an exercise, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the country's Donetsk region on Friday.
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt “human connection” over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service.
Don’t worry, you can still use your Japan health insurance card — for now
A My Number card reader at a pediatric clinic in Tokyo. While the government will stop issuing new health insurance cards on Monday, most people will remain unaffected by the move in the short term as existing health insurance cards can still be used for another year.

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