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Established in 1951, Japan Airlines (JAL) became the official flag carrier two years later, and is a member of the Oneworld airline alliance. In 2009, it suffered steep financial losses despite being Asia’s largest airline by revenue, and cut staff and routes to prune expenses. However, it was forced to file for bankruptcy protection in January 2010, after losses of nearly ¥100 billion in a single quarter. JAL emerged from bankruptcy in March 2011, and in September 2012 JAL shares resumed trading on the Tokyo stock Exchange.

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Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways have been under pressure to rethink policies requiring pets to travel in the hold, amid an outcry over the deaths of a dog and a cat in a crash on January 2.

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Korean Air Lines spokeswoman says flight KE766 was being pushed backwards from parking position when it ‘came into contact’ with Cathay Pacific aircraft.

The measures – include more visible stop line markings on taxiways leading to runways and use of clearer language in traffic control communication.

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Experts said crew followed evacuation procedures in a textbook manner that stopped the plane, which hit a coastguard aircraft and caught fire, from turning into a death trap.

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Transcripts of traffic control instructions released by authorities appeared to show the Japan Airlines plane had been given permission to land, but the coastguard aircraft had been told to taxi to a holding point near the runway.

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A former Japan Airlines pilot said there was ‘a strong possibility’ that professional negligence led to the fiery crash in which five coastguard personnel perished.

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The forensic experts from plane manufacturer Airbus and French state agency BAE will arrive in Japan on Wednesday to help authorities investigate the deadly accident at Tokyo’s Haneda airport.

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Asia-Pacific airlines summit in Singapore told ‘familiar headwinds’ such as high fuel prices and international tension causing problems for aviation industry.

The list comprised by Bounce, a luggage storage company, evaluated carriers on 10 factors, including: on-time arrivals, percentage of cancellations, free carry-on allowance, meal, seat comfort, and staff service.

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Being developed to fly at nine times the speed of sound, Venus Aerospace’s planned jet will be equipped with rocket engines to climb to an altitude of 52,000 metres – more than four times as high as traditional jetliners.

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Japan’s competing ANA and Japan Airlines jostle for position, while Air France was the only European carrier to make the cut – here are the top 10 airlines of 2023, according to Skytrax’s online survey of travellers

Two Japanese airlines also made the Skytrax top 20, as well as carriers from South Korea, Hainan, Taiwan, India, Australia and New Zealand. Cathay Pacific took home the gong for ‘world’s best in-flight entertainment’.

The business class passenger said he was ‘quite shocked’ and found it ‘a bit insulting to be served a single banana while others are given far more’. Japan Airlines apologised for ‘not being able to meet expectations’.

Japan Airlines Co. flight JL331 missed the 10pm cut-off for commercial planes landing at Fukuoka airport and was denied permission to land – despite earlier expectations it would arrive with minutes to spare.

Begins with admission of tourists on guided package tours arriving at airports in Hokkaido and Okinawa; already set to double cap on arrivals to 20,000 a day next month, still far below pre-pandemic levels.

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United Airlines flight 328 had been headed from Denver to Honolulu on Saturday when its engine failed. A Japan Airlines 777-200 with Pratt & Whitney engines suffered a similar failure in December.

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation is to cut 95 per cent of its SpaceJet workers, a final nail in the coffin of a project supposed to jump-start a Japanese domestic aerospace industry.

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The government is making plans to permit small groups to enter Japan from places that have the coronavirus under control, such as Taiwan, Vietnam and China.

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Roll, roll up, as airlines offer unlimited flights, buy-one-get-a-row deals, dinner anywhere but in the air or to cover all your pandemic-related health expenses

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