Skymark Airlines to be first domestic carrier to operate regular service out of Ibaraki airport
Skymark airlines (headquarters in Ota ward, Tokyo) formally announced on February 6 that it has decided to introduce daily flight to Ibaraki airport in Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture from its Kobe base with effect from April 16. This was after months of having no domestic carriers willing to mount regular flight using this new airport, classified as Tokyo’s secondary airport and aiming to attract low cost carriers.
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Tokyo Realtime: Akihabara is a new professionally produced audio guided walking tour of Tokyo's "Electric Town"
A place with a rich history that in the past decade has reinvented itself as a subculture hotspot for Japanese anime, games, manga and maids.
Unlike a typical guidebook or audio tour, Tokyo Realtime: Akihabara takes the listener on a real adventure through all the must-see spots. The narrator, Patrick W. Galbraith (author of The Otaku Encyclopedia), is joined along the route by a team of expert commentators, who together paint the full picture of modern-day Akihabara.
Producer Max Hodges (Creative Director at White Rabbit Press) has taken these studio recordings and mixed in location ambience, music, and a suite of special effects, to turn this tour into a totally unforgettable experience.
FedEx's Panda Express Aircraft Livery
Dubbed the "Panda Express", one of FedEx's latest fleet of Boeing B777F freighters has a panda decal on the nose section of its fuselage, as seen on picture, flew on a special mission earlier this month on a non-stop flight from Dulles International airport near Washington’s National Zoo, to Chengdu, China, with two giant pandas onboard.
The payload, two giant pandas have become endearing goodwill ambassadors for China in the United States, now destined to return to China, under an agreement that allows China to retain ownership of adult pandas and any offspring.
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SIA shows Eco-friendly flight over the Pacific
Singapore Airlines (SQ), has just completed a journey which it claims was the world’s first multi-sector demonstration green flight. On one of its long-haul scheduled flight over the North Pacific, flight SQ11 operated using a Mega top Boeing 747-400 Jumbo Jet, which departed from Los Angeles in the day, arrived in Singapore just past midnight via Tokyo, had successfully completed one of the most environmentally efficient flights with fuel savings of more than 10 tonnes as well as a 33-tonne reduction in carbon emissions. The fuel saved translate to around 6 per cent less than normally consumed on a similar flight.
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