Tokyo Governor is positive to joint development of passenger plane

Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara again took his positive stance for joint development of middle or small passenger airplane by major Asian countries at the 5th Asian Network of Major Cities 21 (ANMC 21) generalassembly in Taipei on April 13 and 14. He said, "It will be a symbol of industrial potentiality in Asia and will help establish identity of Asia in the world.

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Tokyo Governor is positiveto joint development of passenger plane
Airline
*Turkish Airlines to extend code share flights with JAL
*JAL marked booking rate of 73.9% on its international flights during GW
*ANA renews its domestic flight booking system "able"
*ANA and SWR to begin codeshare flights on June 2
Airport
*New Kitakyushu marked year-on-year growth of passengers first month
*Hiroshima Airport handled16.8% more international passengers for FY2005
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*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."

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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
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Sky Highway plan starts

Airbus COO emphasized benefits of A380 to JAL and ANA again

Charles Champion, Airbus Chief Operating Officer and Head of the A380 Program, visited Japan on April 5 to say that Airbus is still ambitious to sell A380 in Japan and to expand industrial relations with Japanese manufacturers. The first aim for his visiting this time was to explain the current condition of the A380 program to JAL and ANA, though it was not direct sales activity, Champion added.

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Airbus COO emphasized benefits of A380 to JAL and ANA again
Airline
*AAL hopes to increase business demand on its KIX-Dallas flights
+Moving to 2 PTB at Naritawill give AAL big merits
*ACA tries to exploit new markets for stable demand through a year
*ANA launches a strategic research institute to develop intellectual property
*JAL extends code shares with Hainan Airlines
Airport
*Kansai operates the most-ever international flights this summer
*Centrair targets more than 12 million passengers for FY2006
*Centrair resulted in year-on-year reduction of passengers first time
*New Kitakyushu Airport has started well with high load factors
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It began with "consideration"

Next JAL CEO says B787 and B737-800 will play key roles on its international network

Next JAL President and CEO Haruka Nishimatsu, who will officially take office in June this year, said at a joint new conference on March 24 that he believe the international passenger flight business will drastically change in 2009, for which JAL Ways (JAZ), a low-cost carrier of the JAL Group, will play a key role." After completion of the re-expansion of HanedaAirport in 2009, short-haul international flights based on Haneda will possibly be operated like domestic flights, he added.

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Headline
Next JAL CEO says B787 andB737-800 will play key roles on its international network
Airline
*JAL will introduce a new integrated maintenance system
*ANA revises upward its financial outlook for FY2005 again
*Star Flyer is getting itsbusiness off to a good start
Administration
*Japan and Taiwan have agreed on increase of air transport volumes
Airport
*Narita reduces aircraft movements during this summer schedule
*NAA aims to expand non-aviation revenue to 45% of the total
*Kansai still suffered year-on-year losses of international passengers
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