Skymark starts services from Sendai to Sapporo and Fukuoka
Skymark Airlines starts flights between Sendai Airport and Fukuoka Airport and Sapporo Airport.
Skymark Airlines starts flights between Sendai Airport and Fukuoka Airport and Sapporo Airport.
Japan’s two biggest carriers, ANA and Japan Airlines, reported a combined growth of almost 6% in their domestic traffic in 2012. But compared with 2010 demand is still down 7%. However, the new breed of local LCCs has resulted in domestic capacity being almost 8% up in April.
It has been a year since we last looked closely at the Japanese market. How is domestic traffic faring compared with the pre-earthquake/tsunami demand levels, and what are load factors like so far this year for ANA and JAL. What share of the domestic market do ANA and JAL currently have, and why is that likely to change?
Skymark launches Tokyo Haneda, Okinawa and Sapporo flights from Osaka’s Kansai International Airport.
Skymark adds eighth route from Kobe and fifth from Narita with double-daily service connecting the two airports.
Skymark Airlines now flies from its base at Tokyo Narita Airport to Okinawa.
Ahead of Christmas, we have seen 83 new routes launch! You might have thought that route launch celebrations would be more low-key as Christmas celebrations take over, but we dare almost say it has been the contrary. We have fantastic photos from route launches all across the world!
In the first of a series of interviews which take only 30 seconds to read (and about that long to write) anna.aero talks to Aya Isogai, Skymark Airlines’ Corporate Planning Division, about “our company’s dream” for the four new A380s.
Download the spreadsheet with this week’s 250 new routes and see our fantastic photo coverage of launch celebrations all across the world. Ribbons have been cut in masses, lakes have been emptied for fire brigades to salute the arriving aircraft and the world’s master bakers have worked day and night to bake an amazing selection of cakes.
Tokyo’s “old” airport at Haneda is now allowing international flights after completion of a new runway and terminal. But which are the leading domestic routes and who apart from JAL and ANA is operating them?
The last week has seen the launch of 35 new routes, of which eight were filling the void in the Mexican market after Mexicana’s demise. Plenty of cakes were baked to celebrate, but which airline opened a new base at a capital city airport? Which airline has changed its name just after launching two new international routes? And which South American city got its first connection with Europe since 1984?