Air Japan

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Air Japan Co., Ltd. (株式会社エアージャパン, Kabushiki-gaisha Eā Japan^?) is an airline based in Tokyo, Japan. It is a wholely owned subsidiary of All Nippon Airways (ANA) operating scheduled and chartered services from Tokyo and Osaka. It should not be confused with Air Nippon, another ANA subsidiary.

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Services
4 Fleet
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Code Data

IATA Code: NQ
ICAO Code: AJX
Callsign: Air Japan

[edit] History

Air Japan was established as World Air Network on 29 June 1990 and became the charter airline arm of ANA, but ceased operation since September 1995. In 2000 World Air Network was renamed Air Japan and relaunched service in 2001, the first flight being from Osaka to Seoul, South Korea.

[edit] Services

Air Japan operates the following services (at January 2007):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Kansai International Airport and Tokyo (Narita).
International scheduled destinations: Guam International, Guangzhou Baiyun International, Hong Kong International and Honolulu International.

Currently Air Japan runs Tokyo to Honolulu flights under its own code, and operates scheduled flights to Hong Kong from Tokyo and flights to Hong Kong and Guam from Osaka under wet lease from ANA. It also operates chartered cargo services from Tokyo to Tianjin, Dalian, Qingdao, Xiamen and Shanghai.