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Japan Airlines
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Nihon Koku
IATA
JL
ICAO
JAL
Callsign
JAPAN AIR
Founded
1951 (as Japan Air Lines)
Hubs
Narita International Airport
Tokyo International Airport
Kansai International Airport
Osaka International Airport
Focus cities
Chubu Centrair International Airport
Frequent flyer program
JAL Mileage Bank
Member lounge
SAKURA Lounge
Alliance
oneworld (passenger)
WOW (cargo)
Subsidiaries
JALways
JAL Express (JEX)
J-Air
Japan Air Commuter (JAC)
Hokkaido Air System (HAC)
Japan Transocean Air (JTA)
Ryukyu Air Commuter (RAC)
Fleet size
271 (active) (Including all subsidiary aircraft) (+75 orders)
Destinations
125
Headquarters
Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
Haruka Nishimatsu(President and CEO)
Website: http://www.jal.com/
Japan Airlines Corporation (????????, Kabushiki-gaisha Nihon Koku?) (TYO: 9205), or JAL, is an airline of Japan. It is the largest airline operator in Asia.[1] It is based in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, operating scheduled and non-scheduled international and domestic services. Its main bases are Narita International Airport and Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo. It has 17,925 employees (as of March 2007).[2]
Two companies operated under the JAL brand: Japan Airlines International (?????????????, Nihon Koku Intanashonaru?) and Japan Airlines Domestic (????????, Nihon Koku Japan?). Japan Airlines Domestic had primary responsibility for JAL's large network of intra-Japan flights, while JAL International operated both international and trunk domestic flights. On October 1, 2006, Japan Airlines International and Japan Airlines Domestic merged into a single brand, Japan Airlines International. JAL Corporation also owns seven smaller airlines which feed or supplement mainline JAL flights:
Hokkaido Air System
JAL Express
JALways
J-Air
Japan Air Commuter
Japan Transocean Air
Ryukyu Air Commuter
JAL has the largest fleet of Boeing 747s in the world (approximately 64, as of April 2007).[3] JAL, which flies to Mexico City via Vancouver and S?o Paulo via New York City, (formerly Los Angeles in the 1990s) is one of five Asian airlines to fly to Latin America: the others are Malaysia Airlines, Air China, and Emirates Airline and Korean Air (restarts in June). IATA's Operational Safety Audit for its safety practices.[4]
JAL should not be confused with Air Japan (AJX), a subsidiary of JAL's competitor All Nippon Airways (ANA).
