It's Sunday again, so it must be time for more Airplane Art. This week, resting after a days duties is a Jetstar Japan Airbus A320 - fitted with Sharklets - at Tokyo Narita International Airport. Jetstar Japan operates a fleet of twenty Airbus A320 family aircraft, owned by a combination of Qantas, Japan Airlines and other shareholders. The airline operates … [Read more...]
More operators accept A320’s … with Sharklets!
The spread of the midlife update of the A320 - the A320E with Sharklets wingtip devices is spreading further. A quick re-cap on what a Sharklet first though - It's a device on the end of a wing that increases the lift generated at the wingtip, whilst reducing the educe the lift-induced drag caused by wingtip vortices, leading to better performance of an aircraft in terms of … [Read more...]
Jetstar Japan commences service
Another part of Jetstar took to the air today with Jetstar Japan commencing service. Jetstar Japan operated flight GK111 from Tokyo Narita to Sapporo successfully, and thus joins the Jetstar family in the Asia/Pacific/Australasia region. For those keeping up that's: Jetstar (Australia and New Zealand) Jetstar Asia (Singapore, also incorporating Valueair) Jetstar … [Read more...]
The Japanese Low Cost Carrier battle is about to go into full swing….
Well it seems the existing low cost carriers are about to tough it out, as the Air Asia Japan (A Joint Venture between Air Asia and ANA) has been granted it's Air Operators Certificate The certificate will allow Air Asia Japan to operate from Tokyo Narita both international and Japanese domestic services. A target date of August (with no specifics) is the current … [Read more...]