Route Network Expansion

To contribute to communities as a social infrastructure, the JAL Group aims to build a future where people and goods move freely between cities and rural areas. Maintaining community lifelines is our social mission.
To expand route networks, we will work to maintain and develop outlying island routes and regional routes, and increase traffic between cities and rural areas.
To achieve this, we will adjust routes and use resources of the JAL Group's community-based regional carriers (J-AIR, JAC, HAC, JTA, RAC). In addition, we will provide a system to encourage a hybrid workstyle and lifestyle that "balances life in the city and countryside."

We will continue to further strengthen the international transit hub function at Narita Airport and expand our network across the JAL Group by utilizing FSCs and LCCs.

In response to the diversification of travel needs and values and the expected increase in demand from price-conscious customers on international medium-haul flights, we have established ZIPAIR Tokyo, Japan's first international medium-haul LCC, to further meet the needs of customers with diversifying values.
After launching the Narita-Bangkok route on June 3, 2020 as a dedicated cargo route, ZIPAIR Tokyo launched the Narita-Seoul route on October 16, 2020 as a passenger route, followed by the Bangkok, Honolulu and Singapore routes, and the Narita-Los Angeles route on December 25, 2021.
As a JAL Group airline that provides value differentiated from full-service carriers, we will respond to diversifying customer needs and actively utilize Narita International Airport, which will be enhanced in the future, to contribute to further growth in the number of people interacting with Japan, including the targeted 60 million foreign visitors in fiscal 2030.

SPRING JAPAN, a China-specific LCC, is developing a China-specific business using small aircraft together with the Spring Group, the largest LCC in China. In the future, SPRING JAPAN will target Chinese cities with a population of over 10 million and develop new destinations that have not yet been served by direct flights. By leveraging the sales power of the Spring brand, we will contribute to the further expansion of the population exchange, including the increase in the number of foreign visitors to Japan from China.

Jetstar Japan, which boasts one of the best domestic networks in the Tokyo metropolitan area among LCCs, is developing its business with a focus on domestic routes from Narita Airport. We will continue to contribute to the expansion of the LCC market in Japan based on our dual brand strategy, which combines the strengths of the Jetstar LCC brand and the JAL full-service carrier brand.

The JAL Group has regional airlines that operate routes connecting regional cities and outlying islands, such as Hokkaido Air System, J-AIR, Japan Air Commuter, Japan Transocean Air and Ryukyu Air Commuter. We will ensure sustainable route operations that are essential to outlying islands and similar regions, fulfill our function as a transportation infrastructure for communities, connect regions and the world, expand consumption through the movement and distribution of people and goods, and thereby contribute to regional revitalization.

EAS LLP is working on the following businesses to promote collaboration among the member airlines.