Not to be confused with Air Japan, the charter carrier.
Japan Airlines
IATA
ICAO
Callsign
JL
JAL
JAPAN AIR[1]
Founded
August 1, 1951; 72 years ago (1951-08-01) (as Japan Air Lines)
Commenced operations
October 25, 1951; 72 years ago (1951-10-25)
Hubs
Tokyo–Haneda
Tokyo–Narita
Secondary hubs
Osaka–Itami
Osaka–Kansai
Focus cities
Fukuoka
Nagoya–Centrair
Naha
Sapporo–Chitose
Frequent-flyer program
JAL Mileage Bank
JAL Global Club
Alliance
Oneworld
Subsidiaries
J-Air
Japan Air Commuter (60%)
Japan Transocean Air (72.8%)
Jetstar Japan (46.7%)
Hokkaido Air System (57.3%)
Ryukyu Air Commuter (74.5%)
Spring Airlines Japan (70%)
Zipair Tokyo
Fleet size
143 (mainline)
Destinations
91[2]
Traded as
TYO: 9201 TOPIX Large70 component
Headquarters
Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
Yuji Akasaka (Chairman & Representative Director)
Mitsuko Tottori (President & CEO)[3][4]
Revenue
¥1,375,589,000,000 (FY2022)[5]
Operating income
¥64,563,000,000 (FY2022)[5]
Net income
¥33,876,000,000 (FY2022)[5]
Website
www.jal.co.jp/ar/en/
Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (日本航空株式会社, Nihon Kōkū Kabushiki-gaisha, JAL) is the flag carrier of Japan. JAL is headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its main hubs are Tokyo's Narita International Airport and Haneda Airport, as well as Osaka's Kansai International Airport and Itami Airport. The JAL group of which it forms part include Japan Airlines, as well as; J-Air, Japan Air Commuter, Japan Transocean Air, and Ryukyu Air Commuter for domestic feeder services, and JAL Cargo for cargo and mail services.
JAL group operations include scheduled and non-scheduled international and domestic passenger and cargo services to 220 destinations in 35 countries worldwide, including codeshares. The group has a fleet of 279 aircraft. In the fiscal year ended 31 March 2009, the airline group carried over 52 million passengers and over 1.1 million tons of cargo and mail. Japan Airlines, J-Air, JAL Express, and Japan Transocean Air are members of the Oneworld airline alliance network.
JAL was established in 1951 as a government-owned business and became the national airline of Japan in 1953.[6] After over three decades of service and expansion, the airline was fully privatised in 1987. In 2002, the airline merged with Japan Air System (JAS), Japan's third-largest airline, and became the sixth-largest airline in the world by passengers carried. Japan Airlines is currently an official sponsor of Shimizu S-Pulse, and Consadole Sapporo.
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¥1,375,589,000,000 (FY2022)[5]