JALways

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JALways Co.,Ltd. (株式会社JALウェイズ, Kabushiki-gaisha JAL Weizu^?) is an airline subsidiary of Japan Airlines. It specializes in flights between major Japanese cities, island resorts in the Pacific Ocean and Thailand. Its main bases are Bangkok International Airport, Honolulu International Airport and Narita International Airport, Tokyo. ^[1]

Its flight crews are based in Honolulu, Hawaii, and are predominantly American, while its cabin attendants are trained and based in Bangkok, Thailand, and are predominantly Asian. JALways operates independently of JAL, but shares livery and interline benefits: this is primarily to avoid the higher labor costs of JAL's Japanese crews and maintenance. Because JALways operates to resort locations, JALways planes have the word "Reso`cha" (Super Resort Express) on the plane. Also, the flight attendant unifoms have a tropical theme. It is also not uncommon for JALways aircraft to be used on JAL routes, and vice-versa.^{[citation needed]}

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Destinations
4 Incidents and accidents
5 Fleet
- 5.1 Previously operated
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Code Data

IATA Code: JO
ICAO Code: JAZ
Callsign: J-Ways ^[2]

[edit] History

The airline was established on 5 October 1990 and started operations in July 1991. It originally started as a charter airline named Japan Air Charter, and built a relationship as a leasing partner for Japan Airlines. It was given the current name on 1 October 1999 and became an international scheduled airline. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Airlines in March 2001. ^[1]

[edit] Destinations

JALways fly to the following cities, some are served by JAL aircraft and crews in a commercial agreement:

[edit] Japan

[edit] United States

[edit] Incidents and accidents

On August 30, 2005, a JALways flight from Fukuoka to Honolulu made an unscheduled landing at Kansai International Airport after warning lights indicating a system malfunction went off twice, once prior to takeoff. The passengers were put up in a hotel for the night, and the following day were taken to their original destination. There were no injuries.^{[citation needed]}