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ANA will organize ‘Four-days Los Angeles and Victorville Airport tour’ as the second tour of ‘Airplane Graveyard’ series, following Mojave Airport. You can get up close and personal with the many planes that once served the world.

ANA and JTB jointly develop a two-days tour traveling from Miyako, a remote island in Okinawa, to Memanbetsu in Hokkaido with a private jet ‘Falcon 2000 LXS’, targeting luxury travelers.

ANA will begin serving Haneda-Milan, Stockholm and Istanbul after December 2024, expanding its Europe network to 49 flights a week to nine cities in eight countries.

ANA X has started selling tours for overseas destinations with no ANA scheduled flights by using other flights than ANA, such as Guam by United Airlines or Seoul by Asiana Airlines.

The face recognition boarding process ‘Face Express’ on a passenger’s smartphone was tested at Narita Airport, linking the app with ANA and JAL apps.

ANA Holdings considerably increased operating revenue for FY2023 ended March 31 2024 to 2,056 billion yen because of strong air travel demand after the pandemic. International passenger service revenue surpassed domestic passenger service revenue.

ANA X, a ANA Group company, unveiled the TaaS (Travel as a Service) Platform concept for seamless travel on an smartphone app to expand an ANA economy zone by providing more opportunities to live or travel with accumulated miles.

ANA and JAL have received around 10% more international flight bookings for this coming Golden Week holiday period. ANA's bookings on Honolulu flights increased by 1.5 times to record-high 15,993.

ANA will begin serving complimentary in-flight internet access even to Business Class passengers on its international flights in this coming summer.

ANA has started selling international flight tickets on trip.com through Travelfusion, a NDC aggregator, allowing a user to change a flight, repay and purchase optional services in addition to booking and ticketing on trip.com.

ANA has revised upward the full-year financial forecast for FY2023 ending March 31 2024 because it has successfully earned higher-fare passengers on international flights and increased leisure travelers on domestic flights.

ANA has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Trip.com Group to increase travelers from China to Japan, opening a flagship shop and deliver LIVE commerce on Trip.com website and app.

In this coming New Year holiday period (December 28 2023 to January 3 2024), ANA has received 1.9 times more bookings for Hawaii than a year ago, and JAL has increased bookings for Europe by 34%.

ANA NEO, an ANA Group company for digital solution, has launched a virtual trip platform app ‘ANA GranWhale,’ where a user as an avatar can enjoy virtual travel space ‘V-TRIP’ and a virtual shopping space ‘Sky Mall.’

ANA Holdings posted record-high operating revenue and operating income for the first half of FY2023 (April 1 to September 30) and has decided to pay a dividend of 30 JPY for the first time in five years.

Three regional airlines, ANA and JAL established Essential Air Service Alliance or EAS Alliance to maintain flight networks for remote areas and boost travel demand.

ANA will begin operating all of 14 Narita-Honolulu flights a week (two flights a day) with the A380 ‘FLYING HONU’ on December 6 2013, offering the most seats on the route ever including even before COVID-19.

ANA will begin serving its 3rd 520-seats A380 ‘FLYING HONU’ on the Narita-Honolulu route on October 20 2023. Also, ANA will enhance its China network in accordance with restart of group travels from China.

Shinichi Inoue, ANA President & CEO, talked about what ANA values i in a time of uncertainty after the pandemic at an interview with Travel Voice. One of the reasons for survival from the pandemic crisis was ANA's start-up spirit, he said.

Both ANA and JAL have had more bookings on domestic flights than a year ago and have recovered international flights bookings to 65 to 70% of 2019.