Tokyo September 8: Japan Airlines (JAL) and Hainan Airlines (HU) today announced plans to launch a new twice-weekly code share flight between Kansai International Airport, Osaka, and Haikou, Hainan Island, from October 31.

In November last year JAL and Hainan Airlines opened daily connection flights between Beijing and Hainan Airlines’ destinations of Chengdu, Chongqing and Xi’an, for the benefit of JAL passengers flying to and from these cities from Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya via the Chinese capital. This service, the ‘’West China Express’’ offers connecting passengers smooth transfers, including the use of lounges.

Hainan Airlines will inaugurate service from Kansai to Haikou from September 16 and the code share agreement with JAL will become effective from October 31. The additional, new code share agreement between JAL and Hainan Airlines provides further Japan-China route enhancement for JAL and its customers. The addition of Haikou to JAL’s Japan-China network increases the number of cities served in China to 13. Including the new code share flights with Hainan Airlines, JAL will offer a total of 234 flights a week, more than any other airline operating between Japan and China.

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