Japan Airways has the Americas in its sights for continued enlargement subsequent yr after the massive enhance at its Tokyo Haneda hub .
The Oneworld alliance member is eyeing including new U.S. markets as quickly as 2021, stated JAL senior vice-president for the Americas Kiyoto Morioka on the ACI-NA 2019 Aviation Points Seminar in Washington on Thursday. With out offering specifics, he stated JAL is contemplating cities on each coasts, although he famous that any market will solely be added in coordination with its accomplice American Airways.
Orlando (MCO), San Jose (SJC) in California, and Washington Dulles (IAD) are among the many largest markets that JAL doesn’t serve on both coast.
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A map of Japan Airways future plans for North America in Kiyoto Morioka’s presentation on the ACI-NA Points Seminar in Washington on Nov. 5, 2019. (Picture by Edward Russell/TPG)
The expansion would come no less than a yr after JAL provides six every day flights to the U.S. from Haneda Worldwide Airport (HND), which is far nearer to central Tokyo than its main long-haul base at Narita Worldwide Airport (NRT). Many of the new Haneda flights will change present providers from Narita, aside from a brand new every day flight between Haneda and Chicago O’Hare (ORD) that begins in 2021.
“2020 is an enormous evolution yr for JAL,” stated Morioka.
JAL additionally tipped its hat towards future U.S. fleet plans. The airline plans to make use of the 13 Airbus A350-1000s it has on order to finally change Boeing 777-300ERs on U.S. routes, probably as quickly as 2023, Morioka stated.
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The provider took supply of its first A350, a smaller -900, in June. The plane flies between Haneda and each Fukuoka (FUK) and Sapporo (CTS) at present, in line with Cirium schedules.
Elsewhere within the Americas, JAL hopes to keep up its partnership with LATAM Airways after the South American large leaves Oneworld subsequent fall. LATAM will depart the alliance as a part of its new strategic partnership with Delta Air Strains, which can see it drop its long-standing accomplice American in February.
“We hope that we will proceed the present relationship with LATAM,” stated Morioka. “They’re an important accomplice to us to South America.”
Morioka defined that LATAM offers higher connectivity to Peru, house to a big Japanese heritage inhabitants, and western South America than a few of JAL’s different companions.
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LATAM executives have stated that they airline plans to keep up a lot of its bilateral relationships with Oneworld carriers apart from American, however haven’t offered specifics.
JAL codeshares with LATAM on quite a few routes to South America, Cirium schedules present. Coated routes embody flights between Los Angeles (LAX) and New York John F. Kennedy (JFK) and each Lima (LIM) and Santiago (SCL) in Chile.
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Edward Russell
Is a Senior Aviation Enterprise Reporter at The Factors Man. Edward joined the TPG group in June 2019 after seven years at FlightGlobal.