*Jetstar will commence daily Kansai flight service from next March

Jetstar, the fully owned low cost carrier (LCC) of Qantas Airways, announcedon April 11 this year in Osaka that it would begin serving daily flight service on Sydney-Kansai International Airport (KIX)-Brisbane-Sydney route from March next year. Jetstar Group General Manager Commercial Bruce Buchanan said, "Jetstar will provide economy class and Star class (business class) on its long-haul international flights to Japan. The Star class is very similar to the business class provided by Qantas on its domestic flights. Also, we plan to hire Japanese-speaking flight attendants for the new services."

This Week Contents
Headline
*Jetstar will commence daily Kansai flight service from next March
Airline
*ANA will contract check-in procedures at Narita for SQ and TG
*Chinese carriers will possibly join Star Alliance soon
*JAL air transport result for February 2006
Airport
*Narita forecasts the most-ever passengers during this GW
*Kansai enjoyed 4% increase of passengers for March
Defense
*The first EC225 special transport was delivered to JDA
Space
*Arianespace is awarded launch of SUPERBIRD-7 of Japan
Column "COCKPIT"
Sky Highway plan starts