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The JAL Group has confirmed it is to discontinue operations on 8
international and 8 domestic routes, as well as 1 cargo route.
Flight frequency on 2 international routes will
also be reduced, and the total effect of these changes is a trim
down of 61, 91 and 3 weekly return flights in the international,
domestic and cargo networks respectively.
In summary, within the three fiscal half-years
of April 2009 to September 2010, reductions and suspensions are to be carried out on a total of 13 international, 15
domestic and 2 cargo routes, along with the closure of 4 overseas
and 2 domestic offices.
Aircraft used on a total of 5
routes will be also be downsized as JAL progressively renews its
fleet with more fuel-efficient aircraft.
International
Passenger Operations
Osaka
(Kansai) = Hangzhou: Service suspension of 7 weekly flights
- Dec 7, 2009 + Closure of Hangzhou office
Tokyo (Narita) = Hangzhou: Service suspension of 7 weekly
flights - Dec 7, 2009
Tokyo (Narita) = Qingdao: Service suspension of 7 weekly flights
- Dec 7, 2009 + Closure of Qingdao office
Tokyo (Narita) = Xiamen: Service suspension of 3 weekly flights
- Dec 7, 2009 + Closure of Xiamen office
Osaka (Kansai) = Busan: Service suspension of 7 weekly flights
- Jan 12, 2010
Osaka (Kansai) = Hanoi: Service suspension of 7
weekly flights - Jan 12, 2010
Osaka (Kansai) =
Singapore = Kuala Lumpur: Service suspension of 7 weekly
flights - Jan 17, 2010
Tokyo (Narita) = Vancouver =
Mexico City: Service suspension of 2 weekly flights - Jan 18, 2010
+ Closure of Mexico City office
Suspensions previously announced: Osaka (Kansai) = London, Incheon,
Dalian, and Nagoya (Chubu) = Paris, Incheon (5 routes / 35 weekly
flights)
Decrease in Flight
Frequency
Tokyo (Narita) = Taipei: Decrease flight frequency from
28 to 21 flights per week - Dec 7, 2009
Tokyo (Narita) = London: Decrease
flight frequency from 14 to 7 flights per week - Dec 7,
2009
Reductions previously announced: Tokyo (Narita) = New
York, Bangkok, Guangzhou, Incheon, New Delhi / Osaka (Kansai) =
Guangzhou, Shanghai / Nagoya (Chubu) = Guangzhou / Tokyo (Haneda)
= Hong Kong (9 routes / 47 weekly flights)
Increase in
Flight Frequency
Tokyo (Narita) = Vancouver: Increase
flight frequency from 5 to 7 flights per week - Jan 18,
2010
Increments previously announced: Tokyo (Haneda) =
Beijing (1 route / 7 weekly flights)
Aircraft Change
Tokyo (Narita) = Taipei (JL645/646): 767-300ER
to 737-800 - December 7, 2009
Nagoya (Chubu) = Taipei (JL655/656): 767-300ER
to
737-800 - December 7, 2009
Osaka (Kansai) = Taipei
(653/652): 767-300ER to 737-800 January 12,
2010
Osaka (Kansai) = Beijing: 767-300ER to
737-800 - January 12, 2010
Tokyo (Narita) = Hong
Kong (JL735/736): 747-400 to 767-300ER - January
12, 2010
Domestic Passenger Operations
Nagoya (Chubu) = Kumamoto: Service
suspension of 2 daily flights - February 1, 2010
Included in FY09 Plans
Tokyo (Haneda) = Kobe:
Service suspension of 2 daily flights - April 1, 2010
Nagoya (Chubu) = Iwate-Hanamaki: Service suspension of
2 daily flights - May 6, 2010
Nagoya (Chubu) =
Kushiro: Service suspension of 1 daily flight - May
6, 2010
Kitakyushu = Okinawa (Naha): Service
suspension of 1 daily flight - May 6, 2010
Kobe =
Sapporo: Service suspension of 2 daily flights - June
1, 2010 + Closure of Kobe office
Kobe = Okinawa
(Naha): Service suspension of 2 daily flights - June
1, 2010
Kobe = Ishigaki: Service suspension of 1
daily flights - June 1, 2010
Suspensions previously
announced: Osaka (Kansai) = Memanbetsu, Obihiro, Kushiro, Aomori,
Asahikawa / Okinawa (Naha) = Aguni (Closure of Aguni office) /
Osaka (Itami) = Tanegashima (7 routes / 9 daily flights)
Cargo Operations
Tokyo
(Narita) = Qingdao: Service suspension of 3 weekly flights - December 7, 2009
+ closure of Qingdao office
Suspensions previously announced: Tokyo (Narita) = London (1
route / 3 weekly flights)
Passengers affected by these changes
should contact JAL directly.
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