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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Apr 24, 2014
JAL ups the ante against ANA via alliances
Japan Airlines is upbeat about oneworld's latest expansion because the revamped alliance will provide access to the burgeoning Latin American market and more flexibility on trans-Pacific routes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 12, 2014
Boeing woos ANA after JAL chooses Airbus
Boeing Co. said it's working "very hard" to secure an order from ANA Holdings Co. after its decadeslong dominance in Japan was challenged last year by a $9.5 billion aircraft deal for Airbus.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 31, 2014
More airlines to serve Myanmar
Japan and Myanmar have agreed to revise a bilateral aviation accord to allow more than one air carrier from each country to offer flights, the Foreign Ministry said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 23, 2014
JAL to launch seven new London-Haneda flights
Japan Airlines Co. says it will launch new direct flights between Tokyo and London after it was allotted five new international slots at Haneda airport.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 15, 2014
JAL probes another 787 battery incident
Japan Airlines is investigating what caused a battery on a Boeing 787 to emit smoke during preflight maintenance, a year after a fire on one of the carrier's Dreamu00adlinu00aders helped spur the grounding of the global fleet.
JAPAN
Dec 2, 2013
Airlines urged to defy China's ADIZ
The government repeated Monday that it will continue to urge the nation's airlines not to comply with the rules laid down in China's recently, unilaterally declared air defense identification zone over the East China Sea that includes the disputed, Japan-held Senkaku islets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 27, 2013
ANA, JAL, Peach now disregard China ADIZ
ANA Holdings Inc. and Japan Airlines Co., the nation's largest carriers, flew through China's newly declared air defense identification zone without notifying the country after Japan asked airlines to stop giving flight information to China.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 25, 2013
Boeing warns of ice risk for GE-powered 787s
Boeing Co. told airlines that some Dreamliners with General Electric Co. engines must bypass thunderstorms as a precautionary measure, the latest advisory on the 787 that was grounded globally earlier this year.
EDITORIALS
Nov 21, 2013
A bigger role for Haneda airport
Both airlines and the transport ministry should make joint efforts to enable Haneda airport to better function as a hub in the Tokyo area.
Japan Times
JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Oct 20, 2013
JAL rehab a lesson for possible Tepco failure?
Since the start of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant crisis, debate has raged over whether the government should have Tokyo Electric Power Co. go bankrupt.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2013
Airbus boss swooped in at right time for JAL
Three decades after he began his business career selling aluminum in Japan, Airbus Chief Executive Officer Fabrice Bregier tapped his experience of the country to land a $9.5 billion deal for a plane made of plastic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2013
JAL breaks with Boeing, buys Airbus A350s
Japan Airlines announces it will buy 31 Airbus A350 jets in a milestone deal that cracks U.S. plane maker Boeing's lock on the Japanese aviation market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2013
JAL miffed over slots at Haneda
Japan Airlines Co. has asked the transport ministry to reconsider new slot allocations at Haneda airport in Tokyo after the carrier, which had to be bailed out of bankruptcy with public funds, received fewer departure and arrival slots than archrival All Nippon Airways Co.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2013
ANA lands 11 Haneda slots; JAL is given five
The transport ministry said Wednesday that All Nippon Airways Co. will receive 11 slots in the expanded international flight schedule next March at Tokyo's Haneda airport while Japan Airlines Co. will get five.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2013
JAL- ANA fight over Haneda slots draws in U.S. carriers
Japan Airlines Co. and ANA Holdings Inc.'s fight over additional slots at Tokyo's Haneda airport is widening to include global airline partnerships seeking access to fly businesspeople right into the heart of the capital.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 20, 2013
Now-healthy JAL marks first anniversary of relisting
A year after relisting on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Japan Airlines Co. is overwhelming long-time rival ANA Holdings Inc. in profit terms.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 19, 2013
Smoke seen in JAL jet landing gear
What appeared to be smoke was seen coming from the landing gear of a Japan Airlines Co. plane after it landed Thursday morning at New Chitose Airport near Sapporo, JAL and firefighters said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 23, 2013
The sky becomes less of a limit for cabin attendants (unless you're a man)
All Nippon Airways just announced a new hiring policy for cabin attendants (CA). Starting next year, new CAs will be full-time regular employees of the company. Since 1995, CAs at the company were hired as contract workers who could opt to become regular employees after three years. The reason for the...
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 23, 2013
JAL will continue using ELTs in 787 fleet
After completing an inspection of the emergency locator transmitter beacons on its fleet of nine Dreamliners, Japan Airlines Co. said it will continue using them on the aircraft.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 2, 2013
JAL Narita-Helsinki flights start, using 787s
Japan Airlines Co. on Monday launched a new daily round-trip service from Narita airport to Helsinki using the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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