Japan Airlines and China Eastern Airlines in freighter code-share

Japan Airlines (JAL) and China Eastern Airlines Corporation Ltd., have reached an agreement to operate four round-trip freighter code-share flights between Tokyo's Narita Airport and Shanghai from February 1st (subject to government approval).

The two carriers will operate two round-trip flights each with JAL flying a Boeing 747-200F freighter on Thursday and Saturday and China Eastern operating an MD-11 freighter. on Wednesday and Friday.

With the code share arrangement, JAL will have five freighter service a week on the Tokyo-Shanghai route. In 1998 JAL inaugurated one weekly round trip freighter flight. This increased to two in April 2002 and to three per week from  November last year. Under the agreement, two of these join the code share with China Eastern and JAL will continue to operate one flight independently on Monday.

Japan Airlines and China Eastern Airlines Corporation Ltd., launched a comprehensive passenger code share arrangement in September 2002.