Japan Airlines

Not to be confused with Air Japan, the charter carrier.

Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.
日本航空株式会社
Nihon Kōkū Kabushiki-gaisha
IATA ICAO Call sign
JL JAL JAPAN AIR[1]
Founded1 August 1951; 73 years ago (1951-08-01)
(as Japan Air Lines)
Hubs
Secondary hubs
Focus cities
Frequent-flyer program
  • JAL Mileage Bank
  • JAL Global Club
AllianceOneworld
Subsidiaries
Fleet size146 (mainline)
Destinations91[2]
Traded asTYO: 9201
TOPIX Large70 component
HeadquartersShinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
RevenueIncrease ¥1,375,589,000,000 (FY2022)[5]
Operating incomeIncrease ¥64,563,000,000 (FY2022)[5]
Net incomeIncrease ¥33,876,000,000 (FY2022)[5]
Websitewww.jal.co.jp/ar/en/

Japan Airlines (JAL) is the flag carrier of Japan. JAL is headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its main hubs are Tokyo's Narita and Haneda airports, as well as Osaka's Kansai and Itami airports. The JAL group, which includes Japan Airlines, also comprises J-Air, Japan Air Commuter, Japan Transocean Air, Hokkaido Air System, 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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  2. ^ "JAL - Japan Airlines on ch-aviation.com". ch-aviation.com. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Breaking News - Money". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  4. ^ Executive Officers Archived 14 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Corporate Information, Japan Airlines
  5. ^ a b c Consolidated Financial Results for the year Ended March 31, 2023 (PDF) (Report). Japan Airlines. 2 May 2023. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 May 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  6. ^ Picken, Stuart D. B. (2016). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Business. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-4422-5589-0. Archived from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2018.