Low-cost Jetstar Japan to launch next year
Qantas will take a third share with Japan Airlines and Mitsubishi Corp in Jetstar Japan – a new budget domestic airline in Japan.
Jetstar Japan will launch domestic operations with an initial fleet of three Airbus A320s by the end of 2012.
It expects to fly from Tokyo (Narita) and Osaka (Kansai International), with other destinations under consideration including Sapporo, Fukuoka, and Okinawa.
Jetstar Japan also plans to ultimately offer short haul international services to key Asian cities.
At the launch of the new airline, president of Japan Airlines, Masaru Onishi, said the partnership with Jetstar was a two-airline strategy that would allow the Japanese carrier to competitively serve a larger part of the Japanese market.
Jetstar currently flies long haul A330 services from both Tokyo and Osaka to Cairns and the Gold Coast in Australia, and from Singapore (via Taipei) to Osaka with Jetstar Asia’s short haul A320 fleet.
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