ANA (NH) launches new services in time with the opening of the new international terminal at Haneda Airport on 21 October 2010. New “ANA LOUNGE” and “ANA SUITE LOUNGE” for ANA’s mileage club “Diamond Service Members” are being set up at the new international terminal. Also they open “ANA ARRIVAL LOUNGE” for arriving passengers.

Chile’s LAN Airlines (LA) and TAM Brazilian Airlines (JJ) recently signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a merger plan. The airlines intend to create a joint holding company to form a new airline, LATAM Airlines Group, from an all-stock transaction. The two airlines will continue to operate with own brands, LA and JJ, however. They will continue the talks between the two in..

Garuda Indonesia (GA) held a travel seminar jointly with INFINI TRAVEL INFORMATION on August 18, providing the latest tourism information to boost sales promotion in preparation for the start of daily flight operations between Tokyo Narita and Jakarta from September 1. In the Japanese market, the airline, serving Denpasar in Bali, gives a strong image of flying a resort route. Therefore, the air..

At the Fifth Trilateral Tourism Ministers’ Meeting among the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea held from August 21 at Hangzhou, China, a joint statement was issued to declare that the three nations endeavor to expand trilateral human exchange to the scale of 26 million people in 2015. In line with the meeting’s theme – “Toward the future, comprehensive coopera..

From the turbulent era ruled by Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Toyotomi to Edo period ruled by Tokugawa Shogunate, Maeda Family of Kaga Clan continued to flourish for 14 generations. Though Maeda family was not a hereditary vassal of the Tokugawa family, Kaga clan yielded one million koku of rice and ruled Kanazawa and almost all the area in Ishikawa Prefecture for 300 years.

German National Tourism Office hosted the 13th “German Messe Workshop” on August 19, accompanied by round-table discussions and seminars sponsored by trade show representatives stationed in Japan. Germany is home of approximately 140 international trade shows during the course of a year, the most in number in the world, and receives over 170,000 exhibitors, a half of which is from outside Ge..

Japan Airlines (JL) and All Nippon Airways (NH) announced on August 20 the revision made to the respective winter flight schedules for fiscal year 2010. JAL will reduce a weekly frequency of its Narita/Moscow route and will address downsizing of aircraft on the Narita/Incheon route and elsewhere while increasing the frequency between Narita and Delhi. The airline will see an introduction of Firs..

“Survey 2009 on Tourists Visiting Tokyo” released from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported that foreign visitors to Tokyo in 2009 numbered 4,760,000, down 10.8 percent from the previous year. Their travel consumption fell 15.9 percent to 281.6 billion yen year on year, with per capita spending (of those staying overnight) registering 98,979 yen, down by 10,768 yen. The Tokyo Metropoli..