JAL Expands Japan-China Network

Japan Airlines is expanding its Japan-China network to include 13 cities in China served by 29 routes and 237 flights per week. Including domestic code share flights within China and connection services, the number of cities in China accessed by JAL will total 20.

From March 27 JAL will expand its connection services through Beijing to six additional cities in China, in cooperation with China Southern Airlines These cities include Harbin, Changchun, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Shenyang and Urumqi.

These connection services, under the name of JAL China Express, provide smooth and convenient connections, including the use of lounges at Beijing and escort service from the arrival gate to the check-in counter of the connection flight by airport staff, for normal fare passengers traveling beyond Beijing.

JAL already has JAL China Express connection services in place with Hainan Airlines beyond Beijing to Chengdu, Xian and Chongqing. The new agreement with China Southern expands the total number of Chinese cities served through JAL China Express to nine points.

From May 9 JAL and Xiamen Airlines have agreed to expand their code share agreement by adding three weekly roundtrip flights between Osaka’s Kansai International Airport and Xiamen (Amoy) with Xiamen Airlines as the operating carrier. JAL and Xiamen Airlines already operate three weekly round trip flights between Tokyo and Xiamen with JAL as the operating carrier.

Also, in mid May, JAL and Hainan Airlines plan to expand their code share flights with a new daily flight between Beijing and Chengdu, operated by Hainan Airlines and a daily Tokyo (Haneda)-Osaka (Kansai) flight operated by JAL. JAL and Hainan Airlines started a code share flight on the Osaka-Haikou route on October 31 last year with Hainan Airlines as the operating carrier.

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