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(2) Air Transportation Segment
International Passengers
Capacity during this three-month period, measured in available seat kilometers (ASK) shrank 29.4% versus previous year following a series of route suspensions carried out from the second half of fiscal year 2010, and the retirement of all Boeing 747-400 jumbo jets from the airline’s fleet at the beginning of March this year. Furthermore, in the months after the Great East Japan Earthquake, JAL temporarily reduced flight frequencies on select routes and switched to smaller aircraft in response to the decline in traffic demand during that period.
As a result of the situation in Japan in the wake of the disasters, the number of group tours and inbound visitors fell sharply. Although outbound business traffic from Japan was affected to a lesser degree and rebounded more swiftly than the leisure sector, the overall travel demand in terms of revenue passenger kilometers (RPK) between April and June declined 40.2% from the same