Monday 3 September 2018

China Airlines code-shares with Japan Airlines on domestic routes to Japanese second-tier cities

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                   / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals






China Airlines code-shares with Japan Airlines on the latter's domestic routes in Japan, namely Sapporo - Niigata, Sapporo - Hanamaki, Fukuoka - Miyazaki, Fukuoka - Hanamaki, Fukuoka - Amami, Kagoshima - Amami and Kagoshima - Tokushima.  It operates seven round-trip routes in cooperation with Japan Airlines. From 4 September 2018, China Airlines official web-site will start selling tickets on these Japanese second-tier city routes. 

With the code-sharing flights, passengers will have more choices to visit second-tier cities in Japan, and more Japanese tourists will visit Taiwan, thus expanding the network coverage of Taiwan-Japan flights.

In 2010, China Airlines and Japan Airlines carried out the first shared flight route between Taipei (Songshan) and Tokyo (Haneda). In 2017, the two airlines cooperated on the international routes of Taiwan and Japan to expand the China Airlines network, increasing from 180 to 230 flights per week. This time, both airlines will link the Japanese second-tier cities by increasing to nearly 350 flights a week to meet the convenience of Chinese and Japanese travelers in exploring Japan's local cities and islands.

According to the statistics of the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications, the number of Japanese visitors to Taiwan increased by 1.59 per cent in the first half of this year, and the annual growth rate of Taiwanese visitors to Japan reached 8.75 per cent. It is obvious that the Taiwanese market still has development potential. 

At present, China Airlines flies from Taoyuan, Songshan and Kaohsiung to 15 destinations in Japan, including Haneda,  Narita, Kansai, Sapporo, Nagoya Chubu, Shizuoka, Toyama, Hiroshima, Takamatsu, Fukuoka, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, Ryukyu, Ishigaki and Kumamoto. It is the airline with the largest number of destinations in Taiwan and Japan and the largest passenger load.

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