JAL outlines major capacity cuts
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The JAL Group announced today, further changes to its overall route andflight frequency plan for the second half of FY2009, and plans for aportion of its domestic passenger operations for the first half ofFY2010.
With a focus on improving profitability and reducing costs, a bold review of underperforming routes was conducted, as slated in the Progress Report of its Medium Term Corporate Plan issued June 19, 2009. As a result, the JAL Group will discontinue operations on 8 international and 8 domestic routes, as well as 1 cargo route. Flight frequency on 2 international routes will also be reduced, and the total effect of these changes is a trim down of 61, 91 and 3 weekly return flights in the international, domestic and cargo networks respectively.
In summary, within the three fiscal half-years of April 2009 to September 2010, reductions and suspensions were decided to be carried out on a total of 13 international, 15 domestic and 2 cargo routes, along with the closure of 4 overseas and 2 domestic offices.
Aircraft used on a total of 5 routes will be also be downsized as JAL progressively renews its fleet with more fuel-efficient aircraft.
International Passenger Operations
Route Suspension Route
Details
Date Effective
Remarks
Osaka (Kansai) = Hangzhou
Service suspension of 7 weekly flights
Dec 7, 2009
Closure of Hangzhou office
Tokyo (Narita) = Hangzhou
Service suspension of 7 weekly flights
Dec 7, 2009
Tokyo (Narita) = Qingdao
Service suspension of 7 weekly flights
Dec 7, 2009
Closure of Qingdao office
Tokyo (Narita) = Xiamen
Service suspension of 3 weekly flights
Dec 7, 2009
Closure of Xiamen office
Osaka (Kansai) = Busan
Service suspension of 7 weekly flights
Jan 12, 2010
Osaka (Kansai) = Hanoi
Service suspension of 7 weekly flights
Jan 12, 2010
Osaka (Kansai) = Singapore = Kuala Lumpur
Service suspension of 7 weekly flights
Jan 17, 2010
Tokyo (Narita) = Vancouver = Mexico City
Service suspension of 2 weekly flights
Jan 18, 2010
Closure of Mexico City office
Suspensions already announced: Osaka (Kansai) = London, Incheon, Dalian, and Nagoya (Chubu) = Paris, Incheon (5 routes / 35 weekly flights)
Decrease in flight frequency Route
Details
Date Effective
Tokyo (Narita) = Taipei
Decrease flight frequency from 28 to 21 flights per week.
Dec 7, 2009
Tokyo (Narita) = London
Decrease flight frequency from 14 to 7 flights per week.
Dec 7, 2009
Reductions already announced: Tokyo (Narita) = New York, Bangkok, Guangzhou, Incheon, New Delhi / Osaka (Kansai) = Guangzhou, Shanghai / Nagoya (Chubu) = Guangzhou / Tokyo (Haneda) = Hong Kong (9 routes / 47 weekly flights)
Increase in flight frequency
Route
Details
Date Effective
Tokyo (Narita) = Vancouver
Increase flight frequency from 5 to 7 flights per week.
Jan 18, 2010
Increments already announced: Tokyo (Haneda) = Beijing (1 route / 7 weekly flights)
Aircraft Change
Route
Current aircraft
Aircraft after change
Date effective
Tokyo (Narita) = Taipei (JL645/646)
767-300ER
737-800
December 7, 2009
Nagoya (Chubu) = Taipei (JL655/656)
767-300ER
737-800
December 7, 2009
Osaka (Kansai) = Taipei (653/652)
767-300ER
737-800
January 12, 2010
Osaka (Kansai) = Beijing
767-300ER
737-800
January 12, 2010
Tokyo (Narita) = Hong Kong (JL735/736)
747-400
767-300ER
January 12, 2010
Domestic Passenger Operations
Route Suspension Route
Details
Date Effective
Remarks
Nagoya (Chubu) = Kumamoto
Service suspension of 2 daily flights
February 1, 2010
Included in FY09 Plans
Tokyo (Haneda) = Kobe
Service suspension of 2 daily flights
April 1, 2010
Nagoya (Chubu) = Iwate-hanamaki
Service suspension of 2 daily flights
May 6, 2010
Nagoya (Chubu) = Kushiro
Service suspension of 1 daily flights
May 6, 2010
Kitakyushu = Okinawa (Naha)
Service suspension of 1 daily flights
May 6, 2010
Kobe = Sapporo
Service suspension of 2 daily flights
June 1, 2010
Closure of Kobe office
Kobe = Okinawa (Naha)
Service suspension of 2 daily flights
June 1, 2010
Kobe = Ishigaki
Service suspension of 1 daily flights
June 1, 2010
Suspensions already announced: Osaka (Kansai) = Memanbetsu, Obihiro, Kushiro, Aomori, Asahikawa / Okinawa (Naha) = Aguni (Closure of Aguni office) / Osaka (Itami) = Tanegashima (7 routes / 9 daily flights)
Cargo Operations
Route Suspension Route
Details
Date Effective
Remarks
Tokyo (Narita) = Qingdao
Service suspension of 3 weekly flights
December 7, 2009
Closure of Qingdao office
Suspensions already announced: Tokyo (Narita) = London (1 route / 3 weekly flights)
JAL apologizes for any inconvenience caused as a result of the above changes and seeks the kind understanding of its passengers as the airline strives toward improving profitability with continued emphasis on providing valuable customers with the highest levels of safety, on-time performance and service.
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