Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) is suspending more than a dozen international routes from late March as COVID-19 travel restrictions and quarantine measures continue to impact passenger demand.
The decision affects 16 services that are already operating or were due to begin during the summer season, overlapping with the Tokyo Olympic Games due to start on July 23. In addition, the airline is reducing frequencies on a further three international routes.
Announcing its interim flight schedule for the period from March 28 to Oct. 30, ANA said domestic routes would make up the core of the company’s earnings, adding the airline would “aggressively reorganize its route network to maximize revenues.”
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All Nippon Airways will halve its international flight services in fiscal 2021. | REUTERS
Kyodo Jan 26, 2021
All Nippon Airways Co. said Tuesday it will suspend services on 16 international flight routes from late March due to falling travel demand amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The services to be halted as part of a new schedule between March 28 and Oct. 30 include those between Tokyo s Haneda Airport and Moscow, and Narita Airport and New York and San Francisco, while reducing the number of flights between Haneda and Bangkok and on two other routes.
Japan's struggling airlines are trying to compensate for the collapse of passenger travel as coronavirus infections spread in the country, by increasing their cargo flights.
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