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Yesterday, Airbnb Japan, ANA and Peach announced that they have formed a partnership to promote “new form of domestic travel.” As part of the partnership, promotional coupons are available to first-time-stayers, and ANA Mileage Club members are able to earn miles for their stays. [one_half padding=”010px 10px 10px 10px”] [/one_half] [one_half_last padding=”010px 10px 10px 10px”] […]

On Wednesday, November 1, 2017, HAC Hokkaido Air System’s Saab 340 registered JA01HC operated its last flight in the airline’s green livery. Now, the aircraft will undergo maintenance and get repainted into Hokkaido Air System’s latest livery based on the livery of its majority owner – JAL. JA01HC: The Only One in the Green Livery

Peach, a Japanese low-cost carrier based at Kansai airport, announced yesterday that it plans to operate flights between Osaka Kansai and Niigata airports starting on March 1, 2018. Peach’s New Flights Between Osaka and Niigata The new route will be operated once a day with Airbus A320 aircraft as follows: MM143 from Osaka Kansai to

Yesterday, Delta Air Lines operated its first A350 commercial flight. The flight, DL275 left Detroit shortly after 1:40PM (EDT), and landed on Tokyo Narita airport’s runway 16R at 3:34PM (JST). The A350 later departed back to Detroit as DL276. The aircraft substituted the 747 which operated its last flight into Japan the day before. Delta

Earlier today, StarFlyer – an airline currently operating only domestic scheduled services – announced that it intends to reenter the international scheduled market starting with 2018 winter schedule. StarFlyer International Scheduled Routes Set to Return The airline is planning to launch the following three international routes during 2018 winter schedule: Kitakyushu to Taipei Taoyuan Fukuoka

Yesterday, Delta Air Lines 747-400 got one step closer to its retirement as it operated its last flight out of Japan. The flight, DL276 to Detroit, was pushed back at 6:23PM – about half an hour behind its scheduled departure time of 5:50PM – and took off from Narita’s runway 34L at 6:53PM. A look

As I am writing this, I am sitting in Super Lounge at Sapporo airport, waiting for my Jetstar flight back to Tokyo. The reason I am here is that I took the AirAsia Japan inaugural from Nagoya earlier today. While I will post a full report later on, I wanted to share some quick impressions of the flight

With 36 Boeing 787-8s and 26 Boeing 787-9s currently in its fleet, All Nippon Airways (ANA) is the largest 787 operator in the world. The first two 787-8s operated by ANA – the launch customer of the type – were delivered to the airline in 2011 wearing a special “mackerel” livery. The first one of