Skymark to Offer Late-night and Early Morning Flight Services Connecting Haneda, Naha and Kitakyushu
Skymark Airlines (headquarters in Ota ward, Tokyo) has recently announced its plan to tap into and expand its late-night and early morning flight services from Haneda airport. With Haneda airport set to operate around the clock, being presently used only by cargo jets and international charter flights late at night, Skymark Airlines plans to add late-night and early morning hours round-trip flights from Haneda to Naha, Haneda to Kitakyushu as well as from Kitakyushu to Naha set to begin this summer. All 3 airports, Haneda Airport, Naha Airport and Kitakyushu Airport are catered for 24 hours operations.
Already been confirmed that Skymark will launch 2 late-night Naha-bound flights leaving Haneda airport at midnight starting in June and at 12:20 a.m. to start in July, with arrival at Naha airport around 02:40 a.m. and 03:00 a.m. The return flight will leave Naha sometime between 3 and 4 a.m. and arrive at Haneda before 6 a.m.
Skymark Airlines further plans to add Haneda-Kitakyushu and Kitakyushu-Naha round-trip flights, with flight departure/arrival time between midnight and 06:00 a.m. to make use of Kitakyushu Airport’s 24-hour operations. Skymark hopes this will give travelers greater flexibility and stimulate demand by flying new routes. At present, Starflyer Airlines is the only carrier operating a late-night flight on a domestic route between Haneda and Kitakyushu, leaving Haneda at 23:25h and with an estimate arrival into Kitakyushu at 00:55h.
The Haneda-Naha, Haneda-Kitakyushu and Kitakyushu-Naha flights bring the total number of the airline’s routes to twelve. Skymark also plan to add more new routes later of the year to Kagoshima, Kumamoto and Nagasaki (via Kobe). Skymark operates on a single fleet of Boeing B737-800 aircrafts, with a seating capacity of under 180 passengers, using a single class configuration.
Skymark Airlines (BC) inaugurated a flight connecting Ibaraki with Kobe on April 16. According to the airline’s public relations officer, the seat load factor of the first flight from Kobe Airport and from Ibaraki Airport was 75.1 percent and 92.1 percent respectively. The inaugural flight ceremony at Ibaraki Airport was attended by Masaru Hashimoto, Ibaraki Governor and Masakazu Arimori, Director, Skymark Airlines. Hashimoto stressed that it was very promising that Ibaraki Airport had seen more than 150,000 visitors since the airport opened on March 11, adding that he would remain thankful to the local residents and people in the neighboring cities for their support. The daily number of visitors to Ibaraki Airport totals 2,000 on weekdays and more than 13,000 on the weekends and national holidays, said airport officials.
On 6th February 2010, Skymark Airlines (BC) has announced its new domestic operation between Ibaraki and Kobe. The daily return operation will start from 16th April 2010. New Ibaraki Airport opens on 11th March 2010, and Asiana Airlines （OZ） was the only carrier to operate regular international flights between Seoul, and therefore Skymark Airlines will be the first carrier on the domestic routes that operates between Kobe. Boeing 737-800s seating 177 Economy passengers each will be used on all the flights. Flight schedule has not finalized yet, but both return flights are planned to operate in the morning.
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