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Air Canada (AC) will operate daily direct flight between Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and Vancouver from January 29, 2011. The airline currently operates daily service on its Narita/Vancouver route.

The new service from Haneda is part of the airline’s strategy of expanding its international route network. Air Canada plans to improve the passenger friendliness, providing customers with two options, with Haneda Airport enjoying easy access within approximately 30 minutes from central Tokyo and with Narita Airport providing excellent connectivity between domestic and international flights afforded by Star Alliance partner airlines.

Aircraft to be put into service will be Boeing B767-300ER configured with Executive First Class and Economy Class with 211 seats in total.

Haneda/Vancouver will be operated with following schedules:

Source: Travel Vision

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Japan Airlines (JL) and All Nippon Airways (NH) announced on August 20 the revision made to the respective winter flight schedules for fiscal year 2010. JAL will reduce a weekly frequency of its Narita/Moscow route and will address downsizing of aircraft on the Narita/Incheon route and elsewhere while increasing the frequency between Narita and Delhi. The airline will see an introduction of First Class service on the Narita/Jakarta route. All the routes currently operated under JALways flight code (JO) will be operated under JAL flight code (JL) as from December 1 this year, with the planned unification of Japan Airlines International (JLI) and JALways (JO) in efforts to improve the operational efficiency.

Meanwhile, ANA decided to postpone its original plan to increase the frequency to two daily flights from Tokyo’s Haneda to Beijing and to Shanghai since the aviation talks between the two countries have not been completed. The airline, currently operating a daily scheduled charter flight to Beijing and Shanghai from Haneda Airport, will introduce larger aircraft to partly compensate for reduced capacity from its original flight plan. Boeing B767-300ER, presently put into service on these China routes, will be replaced with Boeing B777-200ER which will bring additional seats up to 72 seats to each flight.

Also, JAL will revise flight schedules on its Narita/Hanoi, Haneda/Singapore and Haneda/Honolulu routes. ANA will address aircraft downsizing and frequency reduction on some of its routes. ANA also decided to reopen its Narita/Jakarta route from January 7, 2011 and start the Narita/Manila service from February 27.

Source: Travel Vision

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Thai Airways International (TG) will add three more flightｓ between Nagoya/Bangkok to make the route ten-weekly service. On top of the current daily morning flight service, three additional flights will be operated in the afternoon on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

According to TG, the Nagoya/Bangkok route had been operated with three-weekly overnight flights since 16 May 2008. Then the operation was suspended from December 2008 as the demand dropped following the temporary closure of Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport. However, since the market demand is gradually coming back, TG has decided to increase flights on the route in anticipation of further demand recovery. The service will be operated by Airbus A330-300 aircraft equipped with 36 seats in Royal Silk Class and 263 seats in Economy Class.

Also, in addition to the current five-weekly service between Fukuoka and Bangkok, TG will operate two additional flights to make the route a daily service. It will be operated by Airbus A330-300 aircraft equipped with 36 or 42 seats in Royal Silk Class and 263 seats in Economy Class. After these flight frequency upgrades, TG flight operation between Japan and Thailand will increase from 47 flights to 59 flights per week, except code-share flights. The seat supply is expected to increase by about 30%.

Some flight schedules will also change. In the new schedule, TG671 for Narita/Phuket direct flight and TG643 for Narita/Bangkok three-weekly flight will depart Narita at 11:30 A.M. which is one and half hours later than the current schedule. The new schedule is to allow customers a plenty of time before taking a flight in the morning.

TG will be launching new Haneda/Bangkok service from 1st November 2010. The service will be operated by Airbus A340-500 aircraft equipped with 60 seats in Royal Silk Class and 155 seats in Economy Class. Additional and inaugural flights’ schedules are as follows. New schedules are pending government approval.

Source: Travel Vision

Travel Vision Inc. provides information on the travel industry in Japan via "Daily Travel Vision", a Japanese-language e-mail newsletter, and the "Travel Vision" website. There are nearly 110,000 people working in the Japanese travel industry, and Travel Vision is proud to be bringing travel news to more than 30,000 people through Daily Travel Vision.