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Singapore Airlines Issues Odd Statement On North Korea

April 11, 2012 by flyingfish 5 Comments

Earlier today Singapore Airline’s Facebook page posted an unusual warning on its Facebook page. Around 4:00pm Singapore time the airline posted the following: North Korea is reportedly planning a rocket launch in the coming days. We wish to reassure our customers that none of our flights will be operating in airspace that may be…

Boston, The First American City To Get 787 Service, Sees It For The First Time

March 5, 2012 by flyingfish 5 Comments

Yesterday morning, just after 9:00am, the air was chilly in Boston, but there was a sense of anticipation in the air. At first glance the profile of the aircraft approaching Boston Logan International Airport’s Runway 22L could have been nearly any aircraft, possibly a Boeing 767 or even an Airbus A330, but as the aircraft…

Japan Airlines Lets Its Crane Fly Again

January 18, 2011 by flyingfish Leave A Comment

In the infancy of Japan Airlines (JAL), in 1954, the company adopted the symbol of the red crane for its livery, playing on the symbolism of honour and loyalty in Japanese culture. Since the airline adopted the crane logo it became a worldwide symbol for the airline … until it was completely phased out in…

Japan Airlines Steps Back & Rethinks A Low Cost Carrier

October 24, 2010 by flyingfish Leave A Comment

At the end of this past August the battle for dominance of between Japan’s two dominant airlines had reached a peak. All Nippon Airways (ANA), the slightly smaller and financially stable airline had begun discussing the creation of a low cost carrier (LCC) … and Japan Airlines (JAL), the larger airline in the midst of…

Japan’s Airline Battle Escalates To War Today

September 8, 2010 by flyingfish 2 Comments

Today … well its ‘today’ in Japan and ‘tomorrow’ where I am … the battle between All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) that I have recently written about will officially become a full blown war for dominance over the nation’s airline passengers. ANA has already exceeded JAL as the dominant mainline airline in…

Can Japan Airlines’ Layoffs and Shedding of Routes & Planes Be Good?

August 31, 2010 by flyingfish 9 Comments

It is hard to pinpoint when Japan Airlines (JAL) started its downfall. For more than fifty years JAL was the top airline in Japan and for a long time the top airline in Asia and one of the largest airlines in the world. Even with competitor All Nippon Airways (ANA) being founded a year after…

Japan : An Airline Battle Ground

August 27, 2010 by flyingfish 5 Comments

I have been closely watching the two primary airlines in Japan, Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) for nearly two years. The saga surrounding Japan Airlines‘ fall from the both the dominant Japanese airline and the largest airline by passengers carried in Asia, to a company in the midst of the largest bankruptcy…

Japan’s Rival Airlines Ranked Top Two On-Time Airlines

April 12, 2010 by flyingfish 1 Comment

Japan’s two global airlines, Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) battle for dominance day in and day out for passengers and superiority on international routes and domestic traffic…so it should be no surprise that the two top airlines in global on-time performance for the previous year are these two airlines. In Japan the…

Guest Posts From My Favourite Bloggers : Benet Wilson – The Industry Journalist Extraordinaire

September 17, 2009 by flyingfish Leave A Comment

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 17/09/2009 – Guest Posts From My Favourite Bloggers : Benet Wilson – The Industry Journalist Extraordinaire As a photographer, traveller and airline industry geek there are a few blogs I read on a daily basis. With the broad range of readers that Flying With Fish attracts I’d like to introduce…

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