Air Asia Japan 2.0 prepares for take off

Air Asia are back in Japan again, this time to launch their own airline inside Japan.

Air Asia Airbus A320 at Singapore Changi – Image, Economy Class and Beyond

Tony Fernandes of Air Asia confirmed the launch in a tweet:

Proud to announce airasia japan has started selling. October 29th is first flight. Going to be a great airline. pic.twitter.com/gvl1yNfxf1

— Tony Fernandes (@tonyfernandes) October 16, 2017

The first route will be between Nagoya (Chubu Centrair International Airport) and Sapporo New Chitose – with a twice-daily service between the two cities

Services start twice daily on the 29th October 2017 and are loaded in the Air Asia fare engine:

The two flights daily operate as:

Nagoya Centair to Sapporo New Chitose

DJ001 DEPART NGO 07:35 ARRIVE CTS 09:25
DJ009 DEPART NGO 17:10 ARRIVE CTS 19:00

Sapporo New Chitose to Nagoya Centair

DJ002 DEPART CTS 10:00 ARRIVE NGO 12:05
DJ010 DEPART CTS 19:35 ARRIVE NGO 21:40

Commences: 29th October 2017 
Booked Equipment: Airbus A320
Data: Air Asia

This is Air Asia’s second attempt to crack Japan. The previous attempt to start Air Asia Japan with ANA is currently operating a Vanilla Air. Air Asia has worked with new partners to try to deliver the second version of Air Asia Japan.

The market is a lot different in Japan compared to when Air Asia entered last time – for instance in the route they’re flying, the airline will competing against:

• Air-Do
• All Nippon Airways
• Japan Airlines
• Jetstar Japan
• Skymark Airlines

That’s a lot of competition to go against. It will be interesting to see if Air Asia Japan can entrench itself this time fully – or if the airline is forced to retreat again.

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