*Narita agrees with IATAto reduce airport charges by about 11%

Narita International Airport Co. (NAA) announced on September 16 to have agreed with International Air Transport Association (IATA) to introduce a new airport charge system for Narita Airport on October 1 this year. The agreement will be effective by the end of FY2008 (March 31 2007). Out of airport charges, landing charges will be based onnoise levels of each landing aircraft, which are classified into six categories from A to F. According to the rule, the lowest landingcharge will be 1,650 yen per ton, and the highest one will be 2,100yen per ton.

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Headline
Narita agrees with IATA toreduce airport charges by about 11%
Airline
*JAL announces new code-sharing services
*Vladivostok Airlines willfly into New Kitakyushu
Airport
*Kansai largely increased domestic flight passengers in August
Industry
*MHI and PWR succeeded in 100% power combustion of MB-XX upper-stage demonstrator
Column "COCKPIT"
Design concept of intensity

*Additional Haneda-Kimpo charters carried 95% more passengers in August

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Tokyo Regional Civil Aviation Bureau recently reported that Haneda-Kimpo (Seoul) charter flights, which have been increased to eight flights daily since August1 this year, carried 108,490 passengers for a month of August, 95% more than a year ago. The number of passengers was up 78% in comparison with July 2005. The total number was classified into 54,650 departure passengers from Haneda and 53,840 arrival passengers at Haneda.

This Week Contents
Headline
Additional Haneda-Kimpo charters carried 95% more passengers in August
Airline
*ANA and JAL are accelerating to install GPS in all of their fleets
*ANA partially changes itswinter international flight schedule
*JAL will double charter flights for Alaska this winter
*JAL air transport result for July 2005
Defense
*The Defense Agency beginsstudying a new engine for middle helicopter
Industry
*FHI delivered the first wing component of C-X to KHI
Column "COCKPIT"
Repeated problems and media reporting

*Star Flyerapplies for a business license to the Ministry

Star Flyer, preparing to begin its flight businesses in March next year in accordance with open of New Kitakyushu Airport, officially applied for an air transport business license to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on September 7 this year. At the same time,the start-up airline has requested to use departure slots of HanedaAirport for its nine return flights during daytime. Also, it will provide three return flights during early morning or midnight, for which Haneda departure slots will be offered to the airline unconditionally.

This Week Contents
Headline
Star Flyer applies for a business license to the Ministry
Industry
*The development term of Japanese original jet is extended
*ShinMaywa delivers boarding bridges for A380 to Singapore
Airline
*NWA discontinues NRT-JFK service in October due to the soared fuel cost
*ANA unveils a new economy class seat for domestic flights
*ANA increased both domestic and international passengers in August
Airport
*NAA and IATA failed to reach an agreement on landing charges again
*Centrair handled more than 1.1 million passengers in July
Defense
*JDA has requested 188.6 billion yen for 34 aircraft for FY2006 budget
Column "COCKPIT"
"Haneda-Hub Airport Carrying Japan"

CAB requests 100 billion yen more budget for FY2006

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Civil Aviation Bureau (CAB) announced on August 29 that it has requested a total of 598.3 billion yen for airport development special account in FY2006 starting April 1 2006. The total amount is about 100 billion yen more the FY2005 budget of 495.6 billion yen mainly because CAB has requested large increase of budget for the Haneda re-expansion program. Also, CAB will pay more attention to aviation and airport security (countermeasures against terrorism or hijacking) for FY2006, for whichit has requested 5.4 billion yen more budget than the FY2005 budget.

Headline
CAB requests 100 billion yen more budget for FY2006
Airport
*Fourteen additional slotswill be available at Haneda from this coming October
*Narita passengers for July reduced first time since May
*Kansai reduced international passengers in July
Airline
*JAL is serious about riseof domestic flight airfares after next January
*China Southern revealed its intension to fly into New Kitakyushu
*Bangkok Airways hopes to fly into Hiroshima in December
*Shanghai Airlines will fly into Toyama
*Domestic passengers for the first quarter of FY2005 slightly increased
Column "COCKPIT"
Birth of a word of "fuguai"